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Moss can make some garden elements and even entire gardens look and feel aged and established. The trouble with garden moss is that sometimes it may not even grow on its own. And if it does, it could take a very long time.
Here's a way you can accelerate and help establish a beautiful green carpet over your garden rocks and concrete features. This method doesn't work well on resin statues and artificial landscape rocks.
First stir a fist size clump of porcelain clay into 3 cups of water to form a thin paste. You can usually get porcelain clay from local hobby shops.
Then combine the clay mixture with one cup of undiluted fish emulsion and one cup of fresh, shredded moss. Fish emulsion is a plant fertilizer made from whole fish. You can usually get it at nurseries and garden centers.
Mix together and paint it on your rocks and concrete objects with a paint brush.
Remember that moss grows naturally in patches, likes the North side of objects, and takes readily to cracks and crevices.
Use this formula in shady gardens and in moist locations and you can most probably have moss on your garden statues and landscape rocks in a few weeks.
Written by Steve Boulden. Steve is the creator of The Landscape Design Site which offers free professional landscaping advice, tips, plans, and ideas to do it yourselfers and homeowners. For more free landscaping and garden ideas, visit his site at http://www.the-landscape-design-site.com
Peles Castle - One of the Most Beautiful Castles in the World
Peles Castle from Sinaia (Romania), is nested at the foot of the Bucegi Mountains, in the Prahova Valley and is one of the most beautiful castles in all Europe and in the world.
Short history of Peles Castle
The magnificent Peles Castles, with its fairytale turrets and pointed towers rising above acres of green meadows sprinkled with haystacks, was built as a summer residence by Romania's longest serving monarch, King Carol I, who died and was buried here in 1914, just months after the castle’s completion.
The building of the Peles Castle began in 1873 under the direct order of the Viennese architect Wilhem Doderer and was continued in 1876 by his assistant, Johann Schultz de Lemberg. During 1877-1879 because of the war they abandoned work. The castle was inaugurated on October 7, 1883. The location for the Peles Castle was chosen by the prince Carol I de Hohenzollern, who was to become a king and it draws its name from the neighboring brooks which passes through the courtyard.
Peles Castle was the first castle in Europe to have central heating and electricity. During Ceausescu's era, its 160 rooms, each furnished to reflect a different European country, were used as a private retreat for leading communists and statesmen from around the globe as US president Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi and PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
Peles Castle´s architecture and design
Inaugurated in 1883, Peles Castle is not only a pleasant place during the summer day; it has been conceived to be also a national monument, meant to keep the trophies of the Plevna victory, which explains the castle´s majestic style.
Peles Castle was built in wood, stone, bricks and marble and comprises more than 160 rooms. The representative style used is German Renaissance, but one can easily discover elements belonging to the Italian Renaissance, Gothic, German Baroque and French Rococo style.
Peles Castle is surrounded by seven terraces decorated with statues (sculptured by the Italian, Romanelli), stone-made-wells, ornamental vases and Carara marble. The architects used an abundance of wooden decoration, both for the exterior and for the interior of the castle, which confers a very special quality to the building.
Peles Castle´s courtyard in Bramantes style with a fountain in the middle, in the most accurate Renaissance style, pleasantly surprises the visitor. The courtyard has a merry decoration, made out of plants and flowers; all round, the building's facades are animated by elegant drawings. The interior of the castle is a true wonder, due to the beauty and richness of the sculpted wood and the stained glass windows. As you get in the vestibule, you are on the Honor Staircase, in front of the most important rulers of old Romania: Holy Stephen the Great, and Michael the Brave.
Peles Castle’s interiors are an opulent display of elegant design and historical artifact. Its 160 rooms are adorned with the finest examples of European art, Murano crystal chandeliers, German stained-glass windows, walls covered with Cordoba leather, Meissen and Sevres porcelains, ebony and ivory sculptures.
Peles Castle most outstanding rooms are the Big Armory Room, the small Armory Room, the Florentine Room, the Reception Room (where paintings and wooden sculptures depicting 16 castles of the Hohenzollerns are exhibited), the Moresque Room, The French Room, the Turkish Room, the Council Room, the Concert Room as well as the Imperial Suite.
Other exquisite attractions at Peles Castle are the statues, the ceramics, the gold and silver plates, the Meissen and Sevres porcelain, as well as the extensive weapon collections are worth mentioning. It is also important to know that Peles Castle shelters one of the most important and most valuable painting collections in Europe, almost 2.000 pieces.
Rembrandt reproductions line the walls of the king's office at Peles Castle while rows of books in the library conceals a secret passage leading to the 2nd floor of the castle. There is a gallery of mirrors and the dining room has a leather clad ceiling. Scenes from age old Romanian fairytales adorn the stained glass windows in the poetry room.
In the Florence hall, Michelangelo's reproductions hang below a ceiling carved from glide linden wood. The Venetian room is equally impressive.
Several other buildings, annexed to Peles Castle, were built simultaneously: The Guard's Chambers, The Economat Building, The Foisor Hunting House with 42 rooms designed in Swiss style, The Royal Stables, and the Electrical Power Plant. The Sipot Villa was constructed later. This would serve as the work site of architect Karel Liman. Liman would later supervise the building of Pelisor (1889-1903, the future residence of King Ferdinand and Queen Mary of Romania). as well as of the King's Ferdinand Vila in the Royal Sheepfold Meadow
Almost adjacent to Peles Castle is Pelisor ("Little Peles"). King Ferdinand, who succeeded Carol I, intended to use Peles Castle as a summer residence. Supposedly he found Peles too big and overwhelming, so he commissioned the smaller, art-nouveau style, Pelisor Castle. Pelisor's 70 rooms feature a unique collection of turn-of-the century Viennese furniture and Tiffany and Lalique glassware.
Peles Castle opening hours:
June through September
Open: Tuesday through Sunday, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
Closed: Monday
October through May
Open: Wednesday through Sunday, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
Closed: Monday and Tuesday
Please note that Peles Castle is closed during the whole month of November.
Access to Sinaia: road and rail.
Nearby attractions: the city of Brasov, Bran Castle or Dragula´s Castle, Rasnov Fortress, the ski resorts in Predeal and Poiana Brasov, Bucharest, Sighisoara, Sibiu.
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Is there a web site that tells you what an item is worth?
I have a statue of a Shriner that use to contain booze. It is Americana Porcelain with the words "I AM PROUD TO BE A SHRINER" across the bottom.
These next sites deal directly with your type of collectable;
http://www.dacus-collectibles.com/prod03.htm
http://home.aol.com/rpzqxigcxu/masonic-shriner.html
Shriner Statue American Porcelain McCormick Decanter next; http://www.montreal-realty.net/twp.html
http://www.tias.com/277/InventoryPage/1799532/1.html
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/beaubow/ilist/,ss=photograph*%20or%20photos%20or%20images
http://www.goantiques.com/detail,tom-clark-shriner,764889.html
http://stores.ebay.com/CENTRAL-DECANTER_Liquor-Decanter-Bottles_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZQ2d1QQfsubZ2QQftidZ2QQpZ3QQtZkm
http://www.decantercollectors.com/store.html
http://www.gwmemorial.org/Tour/ShrineRooms/ShrineRooms.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriner
Contact any of the above antique and collectable dealers, they should be able to help you or
If you can take good clear photographs of the artist's signature, or marks, and of the item, then go to http://photobucket.com/ or http://photobucket.com/ for free, and Up load and post the photographs of your collectable to show to one of the following reputable appraisers should they ask you to submit them on line.
Antiques Road Show - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/s...Free appraisers online
http://www.canadianantiquesroadshow.com/... This one is for the Canadian Antiques Roadshow. Free
http://www.isa-appraisers.org/lists... of other Appraisers
http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf... Links to more Appraisers
You can ask for information on ebay directly at the following forum. Someone there will be able to answer to the value of your Antique.http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?t...
http://www3.sympatico.ca/appraisers/....... Free online appraisers
http://www.isa-appraisers.org/
An Evening at Twinight: ‘A Collector’s Paradise’
The evening of Sunday, July 11 was one many will not soon forget. Made possible by the joint collaboration of the Oyster Bay Historical Society and the Roslyn Landmark Society, “An Evening at Twinight: A Collector’s Paradise” proved to be an extraordinary evening of art and philanthropy. This spectacular gala event was held at the breathtaking estate of Richard Baron Cohen, Twinight, which sits ...
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