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A dig in dilemma... do I plant in the Autumn or wj
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latest bi-monthly antiques and fine art auction. Discovered by auction
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eer Wilf Mould as part of a routine house clearance in Nelson and put forward for the special sale, they were of exceptional quality and depicted courtesan scenes in interiors and landscapes. Hotly contested on the in
ternet and in the room, they were eventually knocked down to one of four tele phone bidders for £1,200. Another 19th century
Chinese antique - a “thou sand faces’ hand painted paper fan, with lacquered and gilt decorated guards decorated with figures in a garden setting, and the fan itself featuring courtiers in a landscape - sold to an inter net bidder for £280, while an exceptionally attractive Chi nese embroidered silk table cover decorated with flowers achieved £210 in the room. The sale started well with
set of six small 19th Century Chinese pain
the first two lots - a Doul- ton Burslem dressing table
jug and bowl and a pair of Losol blue and white vases
tings on rice pa per went under the hammer in Silverwoods’
-tripling their estimates ' and selling to the same com mission bidder for £140 and £120 respectively. Art deco antiques are always popular in the saleroom and two wall masks ofyoung women by Goebel and Goldsheider sold for£2go. A1920S large canteen of
silver cutlery to furnish a 12 place setting was also a very popular lot, eventually go ing to an internet bidder for £2,000. The sale featured a
strong section of quirky, but sometimes affordable, col lectables. Pelham puppets normally only sell for around £15 to £20, but some of the rarities are more valuable. In their original boxes and with branded labels, a “Mike Mercury" puppet sold for £100 and a “Jiminy Cricket” for £70. A tiny Franz Berg man cold-painted model of a stag doubled its estimate and wentunderthehammerfor £210, while a pair ofVictori- an Navy Colt style revolvers, despite very poor condition, also doubled estimate and went to a room bidder for £380. There was strong local
interest in a set of four early 20th century dioramas by
In good condition, this Doulton Burslem dressing table jug and bowl tripled its estimate to sell at £140.
A
utumn planting vs Spring planting really is the ques: tion?
The more you
can get ahead of yourself in the back end, the better offyou will be in the spring. If it is all left to Spring, the tidying up and the planting, then you re ally can miss the biggest trick in the book, which is to plant in the Autumn! As long as you are planting
Twoofthesetofsix19th century Chinese paintings which together sold for £1,200.
James Hardman of Bolton depicting show dogs Stain- ton Spruce, Stainton Special Quality, Lune Prince and C H Grately Ben in mahogany frames and they sold for £1,250. Highlights towards the
end of the sale included a French Louis XV-style cream and brown veined onyx and gilt metal mounted colum nar pedestal on a block plinth which achieved £620 from a phone bidder for a Barrowford vendor, while a Victorian Mahogany show frame spoonback armchair
also doubled its estimate and sold for £320 in the room.
Entries are invited for the
next Antiques and Fine Art sale at Silverwoods which will take place on Thursday October30th. Viewingfor the extremely popular week ly antique and collectables sale starts every Wednesday at 9 am with the sale itself getting underway at 1 pm. For details of all Silver-
woods sales, how to submit items and how to buy and sell at auction, visit
www.silver-
woods.co.uk or call 01200 423322.
hardy plants - which in the north you really should be sticking to apart from bedding and vegetables - then now is the ideal time! Just for the fact that we still have six growing weeks ahead of us and plant ing now allows plants to settle ■ in before next year. Spring is great and plants
are raring to go, but i f we have a sharp dry or hot spell plants can struggle to knit into the soil and can dry out
Spotlight
AcollectableandboxedPelham ' onyx and gilt metal pedestal puppet of Jiminy Crickey made £70. achieved £620from a phone bidder.
easily. After a winter of being in the ground they won’t just be established from autumn growth, but also bound in nicely into the soil, allowing maximum spring growth. And as mentioned with
sticking to hardy plants, even a sharp winter won’t damage them as long as they have been grown outside and not in poly tunnels! With summer flow ering perennials you will also find much more flower and development if planted the year before. So the question is an
swered, Autumn in certain ly a better time to plant new plants, but i f you’re want ing to replenish old existing clumps then in my eyes this is best left until spring. This is because the clump can gener ally be tired and a little worse for wear, ready for a boost of growth, so disturbing it before a winter could do more harm than good as it doesn’t have the energy of ajuvenile young plant. So divide clumps in the spring and plant new young plants in the autumn. Some of the best plants fpr
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Why has my Achilleagone white? The common name for Achilleas is yarrow and the wild one grows in verges with a small white flower. If you let the named varieties finish flowering and then produce seed, the seedlings will flower white, or a range of wishy-washy colours, and grow faster than the named vari ety, so the key is to remove flower stems after they finish, then liquid feed and you will be rewarded with a second flush of flowers.
colour at the moment would be Rudbeckias, with their dra matic displays of black cen tred golden yellow flowers, followed by the pastel shades of Japanese anemones and Schizostylis being ideal for sun or shade! Having just come home
Jobs to do.... 1 - Save seeds With many plants having flowered
now is the time to collect any seed you want to sow. Remember, if it’s a hybrid, not a species, the seed will not be the same but may be something interesting!
2- Cuttings Now is the time to take cuttings of
your shrubs and roses. Try to choose low down shoots that aren't too soft, two to three inches long, remove the growth bud and if it has large leaves cut the leaves in half.
One of apair of wall masks by This Franz Bergman cold-painted
Goebel and Goldsheider which sold model of astag doubled its estimate for£290.
at£210.
3-Blackberrystems Pruneoutoldfruitedstemsand tie in the new ones. Give a liquid feed
IT ’S TIME TO GET
OUT IN THE GARDEN AND GET CRACKING WITH THOSE MUST- DO JOBS... BUT
WHICH ONES? HERE JOHN FOLEY SETS OUT WHAT NEEDS
DOING AND WHEN, AND HOWTO GO ABOUT IT
to help encourage the plant to put on strong growth ready for the winter and reap the benefits next year.
4 -Collect leaves With the trees starting to lose
their leaves now you can collect them up, but don't throw them away. Either put them on the compost heap or in a heap of their own and they will rot down to make great leaf mould, which is great for mulching borders with.
5 - Chop down some perennials Any early flowering perennials
that are past their best, you can chop down to start tidying the garden up ready for winter. Again put the leaves on the compost heap as they will come into good use in the future. Anything which was affected with mildew needs to be disposed of to help reduce the chance of it recurring next year.
from the Harrogate Autumn flower show last week we have ended the season on a high. Winning a premier gold we managed to achieve the high est awarded medal for our dis play of autumn perennials, so now with the final show be hind us it’s time to take stock,
get all the autumn potting be hind us and tidy the nursery up along with preparing for 2015. So why not pop in and if
the garden is looking a bit of a green paradise, have a look at what colourful treats we have •instore!
MySchizostylis isn't flowering? Ifyouhave a clump ofSchizostylis (pictured above) which is showing more leaf than flower then it sim ply wants a topdressing with some sulphate of potash. Do it now and waterinthefertiliserafterwards; _ thiswayyoumaygetsomeflowers ® this year, but if not, definitely next year. Also make sure it's notin a place that's not too dry as they do prefera normalor moistsituation!
Should I prune my Buddlejanow? With the Buddleja flowers nearing an end, firstly remember to dead-; head them to prolong the flowers as much as possible. Then for the winter, cut back any old flower . heads leaving the long stems in-
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tact, or just leave it all until spring, W then in |ate April cut a mature plant back to two feet from the ground and with ayoung one it can be one footThiswillencouragestrong - newgrowth and flowers. Nip out
3 n Anemone ‘Whirlwind’
A elegant form of Japanese anemone with masses of semi-double white flowers, great for colour in sun or shadeandalso provides a
1920scanteenofsi!vercutlery made £
000.
Rt to grace any dining room, this 2,
Selling at£320, this Victorian Ma hogany showframespoonback
armchair doubled its estimate.
lovely contrast to the nor mal pink variety. Very little maintenance required,
just cut back in early No- ' vember once it dies down.
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