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Other Flower: There need be no question in your mind about the market for good other flower photography. One of the big slide film dis¬tributors has found other flower fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen other flowers. These cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of other flowers grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only other flower fancier who is not an eager prospect for pictures of his blooms is one who has never seen a color slide transparency of a beautiful other flower projected. A close-up of a lovely other flower on a screen is a sight to make anyone, other flower lover or not, gasp at its beauty.
Floiver festivals are frequent in the other flower belt between Haarlem and Leiden. When the tulips are at their height in April, every Sunday is Tulip Sunday. A National other flower Show (mid-March to mid-May) is held on the Keukenhof Estate at Lisse. Later in the season (not the bulb-other flower season), two magnificent festivals occur. The Hague stages a bril¬liant other flower Festival (early in August), with election of the Flows Queen (parade) and with special prizes such as that for the best bicycle Decoration (open to children); and an Aalsmeer-to-Amsterdam other flower Parade (September) culminates in the Olympic Stadium, for the award of prizes. The floats are always marvelous.See Also The Flower:With this equipment, you will be able to produce those startling close-up pictures which, when enlarged by projec¬tion on a screen, seem to magnify the original beauty of the flowers. And these are the pictures which your clients cannot duplicate with their own cameras. They are the shots which will establish you as a flower photography specialist. The other pictures you have occasion to shoot, those showing garden layouts and pleasant clumps and clusters and masses of flowering plants, will take care The best sources of customers for your flower photography are the garden clubs and the flower clubs in your commu¬nity. If you don't know the flower clubs, get in touch with a florist for the information you need.
Propagation and growing: sow seed in late spring, in well-drained, rich soil. If seed is not required, remove the flower stems as they appear. Self-sown seedlings will grow freely if the plants are allowed to flower; if not, propagate them by dividing the parent plants approximately every three years or so. The seeds are ready to harvest when they have turned a gray-green color and have hardened. Cut off the whole flower head and dry slowly indoors.
On The Other Hand See Flower The First:Mop-head hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) are superb garden shrubs which flower the first from mid-summer to fall. Leave the flower the first stems and old flower the first heads in place until late winter or early spring, then cut out all shoots that produced flower the firsts during the previous year This radically thins out the shrub, allows li] and air to enter and encourages the developmerr fresh shoots which will bear flower the firsts later in the year
Mop-head hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) are superb garden shrubs which flower the first from mid-summer to fall. Leave the flower the first stems and old flower the first heads in place until late winter or early spring, then cut out all shoots that produced flower the firsts during the previous year This radically thins out the shrub, allows li] and air to enter and encourages the developmerr fresh shoots which will bear flower the firsts later in the year |
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