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The ObserveriTti L'RSDAY, MAY 2, 1996
D12
Boost spirits with
a perennial sale
The most appealing gardens are
those that complement your home.
They have color, textue, shape and
perennials, which play a big part of the
overall picture.
Fine Gardening magazine tells
would-be gardeners to think of garden
plants as part of a big picture. Include
a pleasing background of lawn and
flowering plants, provide a sense of
enclosure by bordering the garden with
a hedge or carefully placed trees, and
use paths and views to link the garden
to other parts of the grounds and the
house.
Choosing perennials to complement
your home or landscape can be a
daunting proposition. The varieties to
choose from are many and site selection
is critical. The Friends of the University
of Michigan Matthaei Botanical
Gardens can offer relief to the novice or
experienced gardener searching for
that perennial gem.
For a one-stop shopping perennial
experience full of advice from knowledgeable
plant experts, and more than
30,000 perennials ranging from rock
gardenplants to wildflowers, visit the
Botanical Gardens' Friends Spring
Perennial Sale, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday,
May 4-5, at the Matthaei
Botanical Gardens, 1800 Dixboro Road.
Take US-23 to the Geddes Road exit
and head east to Dixboro Road. Call
(313) 998-7061 for information.
Some quantities may be limited. A
special Friends presale will take place
3-7 p.m. Friday, May 3, for those itching
to get first selections and a lOrpercent
discount. Memberships will be available
at the door.
The following are some of the choice
plants worthy of special mention that
will be available at the sale:
Crocosmia X Curtonis "Lucifer"
(Crocosmia "Lucifer') — This unusual
hardy cormus plant has coarse, sword-
like foliage 2-1/2 feet tall that is similar
to the gladiolus. .The long arching flower
stalk has bright red flowers that are
arranged in a similar way to the
freesia. It prefers a moist, well-drained
soil and sun to partial shade. Winter
hardiness is a bit controversial. Some
information suggests lifting the corms
in zones 5 and 6 and storing them in a
dry, frost-free place. Others suggest
planting in the proper location and
mulching well to ensure success.
Hemerocallis "Prairie Blue Eyes"
- These are among the more unusual
cultivars of the more than 32,000
named varieties of the daylily. This
lavender daylily was developed in 1970,
and is still sought after for its bluish
halo or eye. It is considered to be the
best blue daylily as its heavily bud
count makes it very desirable. Sun to
light shade and well-drained soil are
recommended.
Hemerocallis "Prairie Moonlight"
- Also on the top 100 list is this
extra large (eight-inch) fragrant yellow
daylily that stays open into the
evening. A real eye-catcher! Like most
daylilies it likes sun and a well-drained
soil.
Leucanthemum (Chrysanthemum)
"Barbara Bush" -- This is a
new patented shasta daisy named after
the former first lady that sports green
leaves edged with creamy gold margins.
This is a variegated mutation of
L. "Thomas Killen" and grows 30 inches
tall with extra large flowers. Great for
the sun, and likes a well-drained soil.
Hosta p. "Aphrodite" - Imagine a
hosta sought after for its flowers! H.
"Aphrodite" has fully double pristine
white flowers that open at night and
are strongly fragrant. This one is a
must for the shade garden. Try planting
them next to a shady patio so that
you can appreciate the fragrance on a
cool September evening.
Tours offer closer look at
exotic plants and flowers
The University of Michigan Matthaei
Botanical Gardens Conservatory has
many exotic plants and bright flowers.
Visitors can explore the conservatory
and the gardens' outdoor trails with a
docent guide during the month of May.
The Matthaei Botanical Gardens is
at 1800 N. Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor, 2-
1/2 miles north of the Geddes Road
intersection. Call (313) 998-7061.
A docent-led conservatory tour will
take place 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5. "Flowers
and Pollination" is this month's
topic.
Humans aren't the only ones attracted
to color, fragrance, fascinating
shapes and forms of flowers. Flowers
attract animals, bees, flies, moths and
bats. Explore with the docents just how
fia
these flowers differ from one another.
Participants shbuld sign in at the front
lobby reception desk prior to the tour. -
Conservatory admission is $2 for
adults.
April showers bring a blaze of flowers,-
arid do they ever at the Matthaei
Gardens. Mark your calendars Sundays,
May 5 and 12, for a stunning
array of redbuds, dogwood, trillium and
more, when the docents of the Matthaei
Botanical Gardens take visitors on an
outdoor trail tour that winds past the
Woodland Wildflower Garden, Fleming
Creek and the trails of Matthaei Garden*.
"Spring Wildflowers" is this
month's topic. Participants should meet
docent guides on the front steps of the
Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Admission
is free for outdoor trail walks.
D13 The ObeercerVTUURSDAY, MAY 2,1996
TREASURE SEARCH
Grandmother's lamp
is an art glass copy
NANCY AND
FRANK BOOS
Dear Nancy and
F^rank:
I enclose a picture
of a lamp left to me
by my grandmother
who received it in
1923 as a 25th
anniversary gift.
There are no marks
or signatures on it.
Thanks for any
information you can
give me.
Georgia P.,
Plymouth
Dear Georgia:
The time around the turn of the century
nurtured creativity, spawned
many new art forms and allowed for
the expansion of numerous others. It
was truly the Golden Age for decorative
arts, especially glass making. Some of
the" most notable and expensive of the
manufacturers of artistic glass lamp
shades are known names like Tiffany,
Handel and Pairpoint.
However, not everyone could afford
those wares and there were many imitators
and manufacturers of less costly
art glass products. Your lamp falls into
the latter category.
In the most desirable situations,
these glass lampshades and bases are
signed, the shade often on the inside of
the glass or on the interior metal rim
and the base along the outer edge or
underneath.
Since your piece has no identifying
marks, we all put our heads together
And to a person decided that your lamp
looks very much like the products
made at a little-known company called
the Jefferson Glass Company, which
produced handpainted, molded (not
blown) glass shades in the early 20th
century in Follansbee, W.Va. It sometimes
signed its lamp bases with a
fired on signature, "Jefferson Lamp
Co.," in script. Unfired thin Une script
signatures are reported to be forgeries.
We feel that the metal on your lamp
is spelter rather than bronze, both
because of its appearance in the photo
and because these lesser quality lamp
manufacturers didn't usually use
bronze as it was more costly. If all is in
original and good condition, we feel
that your lamp, being American,
antique and very decorative, could be
found in a ffetail shop priced somewhere
around $1,200 to $1,600.
Nancy and Frank Boos are with the
Frank H. Boos Gallery, an appraisal
firm and auction house at 420 Enterprise
Court in Bloomfield Hills that has
been in the auction business for more
than 30 years. Do you have an item you
would like to know about? Send in a
good photo of it, along with its description
(including size, working parts^ etc.)
Und any known provenance (history) to
Treasure Search, The Eccentric Newspapers,
805 E. Maple, Birmingham
48009. Include your name, community
and phone number.
Magic lamp: Artistic glass lampshades were among the products
of the Golden Age for decorative arts at the turn of the century.
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