Rooms and roots
Pick a winner for the garden
Consider one of these 2002 All-America Selections winners for your garden.
Vegetable award winner Sorcerer is a full-size pumpkin weighing 15 to 22 pounds that is produced on a compact 10-foot vine. The round, dark orange pumpkins have strong, long handles.
Sorcerer pumpkins mature about 100 days from sowing. Good crown set can be expected from these high-yield plants. Sorcerer can be grown using normal pumpkin culture and is great when carved, painted or used for pie filling.
Flower winner Cherokee Sunset (Rudbeckia hirta) contains a blend of sunset colors yellow, orange, bronze, mahogany and related shades. The 3- to 4 1/2-inch flowers are double or semidouble and last long as cut flowers.
Best when grown in the full sun, Cherokee Sunset plants are 24 to 30 inches tall, spreading about a foot. Many plants are self-supporting; others may need staking. This winner offers gardeners a blend of autumn colors and a plant that flowers profusely the first year.
Site helps decorators get a hold on molding
Molding is sort of like a jigsaw puzzle. Putting the pieces together is a little complicated, but the finished product can be a work of art.
Georgia-Pacific’s Web site www.gp.com/ offers downloadable projects that take the guesswork out of how to use molding to add pizzazz to ho-hum rooms. Click on the “Project Center” for instructions on adding panel molding to cabinets and drawer fronts, building a fireplace mantel and making a bed canopy and a pot rack, along with other ideas. You’ll also find basic information and terminology so you’ll know what you’re talking about when you go shopping for supplies.
If you don’t have a computer, you can get the information in brochure form by calling (800) 284-5347.
In addition to the molding projects, the site has instructions for outdoor projects such as gazebos, arbors and benches, as well as a few projects using plywood.
An above-par collection
This week on Home and Away, host Cathy Hamilton, right, visits the home of Dan Consolver, collector extraordinaire of golf memorabilia. His collection includes everything from indoor miniature golf games to antique drivers to souvenir pin flags from major tournaments.
A new show airs at 6:30 p.m. Monday each week on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 and repeats at 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. The show is also broadcast at 9 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m. Sunday.
Take faux flames with you
If you don’t have a fireplace, fake it.
The latest look in faux flames is the Fire Bowl, a new product that simulates the appearance of a torch. It produces a depiction of dancing flames that’s realistic enough to make people who see it do a double-take.
The illusion is created by a combination of halogen lamps, fabric and a fan. The fan in the bowl blows the fabric strips upward in a dancing motion, and the lamps illuminate them with red-orange and blue light that gives them the appearance of fire.
The Fire Bowl can be hung from a ceiling or placed on any surface. At 8 pounds, it’s lightweight enough to be moved easily from room to room.
The product has a suggested retail price of $119.95 and is available only from authorized American DJ dealers. To find the nearest dealer, visit the company’s Web site at www.americandj.com/ or call (800) 322-6337.
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