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Thursday, September 17, 2015
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Bulbs: What’s in store? That depends on how well you take care of your bulbs during the fall and winter
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Bulbs: What’s in stores?
Something old, as reproductions of early-century lighting grow in popularity Tribune News Service
When Irene Conable moved from her 1927 historical home into a sleek condo last year, both in Riverside, Washington, she alighted upon compatible accents for her mother’s 19th century furnishings and antiques. She looked to the hottest trend in home illumination, the Edison, vintage or nostalgia globes, a nod to Thomas Alva Edison, who’s considered the father of incandescent lighting. Resurrected as reproductions of the inventor’s first bulb, the Edisons now shimmer from coast to coast. Manufactured in hundreds of designs, the exposed bulbs are celebrated as hip throwbacks to more rustic times. “I wanted to continue the modern version of Victoriana steampunk through the plumbing and lighting,” said Conable, 70, a retired school librarian. “That’s why I chose these bulbs.” In the past 3 years, these improbable luminaries in the interior design world have jumped the grid from commercial to home decor, said David Gray, a spokesman for Chatsworth, California-based Lamps Plus, the nation’s largest specialty lighting retailer.
URBANA – Summer bulbs can add beauty to the landscape when earlier spring bulbs have long faded, and flowering shrubs have turned to foliage for the season. But if you want those bulbs to make an encore appearance the following year, and the years after that, you have to store them properly over the winter. “Summer bulbs must be dug up at the end of your growing season and properly stored inside for the winter in order to have a floral display the following year,” said Richard Hentsche, an Extension educator in horticulture for the University of Illinois Extension Service. By tradition, a bulb refers to any plant that maintains its entire life cycle in a storage root. A few of the well-known, common summer-blooming bulbs are lily, gladiolus caladiums, iris, canna, and dahlia. Summer bulbs are planted in the spring after the chance of frost, and once the garden soils have warmed.
Enjoy the fruits of your summer labor.
Look for something old and something new this fall in home decor.
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Dusting out your ducts? Do it the right way.
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Don’t stress out your trees with bad trimming this fall.
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Fall is a good time to go poking around the yard.
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Pop the lid off that old paint can and add a splash of color around the house.
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If you want your bulbs to make a comeback in the spring, make sure and store them properly over the fall and winter.
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