Thursday, March 4, 2010

Beautiful New Roses for 2010

Found this slide show of new roses. Take a look at slide 12 then look at my Mystery Rose It's the closest match I found so far and I'm a huge fan of David Austin roses.

Beautiful New Roses for 2010

First Postcard

Yesterday, I received my first postcard as a member of Postcrossing It was sent by Christoph of Dortmund, Germany.

The two first cards I sent don't appear to have been received. One was to Netherlands and the other in Russia. I did get a visitor to my Garden Photo site that translated the page to Russian.

Two were sent to Germany. The card to Munich arrived in 6 days. Today I am mailing my 5th card to Georgia, USA. I've already ordered more Postcards from Zazzle

Now in the description part of the Postcards, I will include what country the card was sent to.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Source updates

Sources for Adelaide Hoodless, Morden Sunrise, Looking Glass and Winnipeg Parks have been updated.

Links are being checked and some photos will be changed. I'll keep you posted.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Mothersday Poyantha rose

New addition in the Rose section. This polyantha was introduced in 1949 by F. J Grootendorst & Sons of Boskoop, Netherlands. You can see by the photo that the blooms are double and globular.

The colour came out very well, for a red. The shot was taken in late afternoon. The sun doesn't cover this part of the garden in early morning. I did use the new Topaz Details to bring out the blooms best features.

There are twenty pages now in the Rose Collection.

Botanica roses

Monday, March 1, 2010

Postcard page update

I tried to get the Zazzle store builder working in an Artisteer generated template before but I couldn't find a way to make them work together. I downloaded the latest version of Artisteer and redid the template with the new features. Now the two blend together very well.

The Zazzle Store builder is flexible. You can narrow the width to fit the content block and change the size of the cells. Other options include adding or removing title, description and price. The comments are a big help too.

The Postcards page now includes better navigation and updates. I'll be using the same template for the Notecards page