Cardoon: Unusual Garden Plant For Aesthetic Sized Stature
Cardoon offers striking thistle like leaves and purple blooms up to five feet tall, grown as an annual in Kansas but perennial in zones 8 to 14. It requires late winter indoors sowing, May outdoor transplanting, and a four to five week blanching process to harvest the hearts 18 to 24 inches long.
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Kansas
Lawrence
Mediterranean
Europe
California
Remembering the Shmoo and antique desk lore
The column recalls the Shmoo from Al Capp’s L ili Abner debut in 1946 and its 1940s 50s collecting craze with dolls toys and novelties. It also outlines the Grand Rapids Desk Co mahogany roll top desk once at the Angus Hotel St Paul and notes its potential value and provenance along with a B R Electric telephones Mfg Co piece and a 1840s Clementson flow blue platter valued at 150 to 200 if in excellent condition.
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L’il Abner
al Capp
Grand Rapids Desk Co
St. Paul
Minn
Grand Rapids * Desk Co
Grand Rapids
Mich
Muskegon
Midwest
Angus
Selby and
Western Avenues
J. Clementson
Paper to furniture and art from recycled cardboard
Designers turn waste into useful objects from SmartDeco heavy duty cardboard furniture to Graypants Scraplights. Israeli artist Ruti Ben Dror and Shannon Ruby craft bowls and clocks from magazines and paper. Etsy shops and HomeGoods offer similar recycled paper decor options.
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Trent Mayor
SmartDeco
University of Southern California
Mayel
Smartdeco Furniture.com
Seattle
Graypants
Graypants.com
Etsy.com
Ruti Ben Dror
San Antonio
Shannon Ruby Crafts
HomeGoods
Homegoods.com
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Hake’s
York
Dogpatch
B-R Electric & Telephone Mfg
Kansas City
Portland
Oregon
B-R Electric Co
Kansas City Telephone Manufacturing Co
B-R Electric & Telephone Manufacturing Co
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