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Background: Since attaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1973, The Bahamas have prospered through tourism and international banking and investment management. By the early 1980s, the islands had become a major center for drug trafficking, particularly shipments to the United States.
Government type: constitutional parliamentary democracy
Capital: Nassau
Currency: 1 Bahamian dollar (B$) = 100 cents

Geography of the Bahamas

Location: Caribbean, chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida
Geographic coordinates: 24 15 N, 76 00 W
total: 13,940 sq km
land: 10,070 sq km
water: 3,870 sq km
Land boundaries: 0 km
Coastline: 3,542 km
Maritime claims:
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate: tropical marine; moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream
Terrain: long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mount Alvernia, on Cat Island 63 m
Natural resources: salt, aragonite, timber
Land use:
arable land: 1%
permanent crops: 0%
permanent pastures: 0%
forests and woodland: 32%
other: 67% (1993 est.)
Natural hazards: hurricanes and other tropical storms that cause extensive flood and wind damage
Environment - current issues: coral reef decay; solid waste disposal
Environment - international agreements:
party to:  Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note: strategic location adjacent to US and Cuba; extensive island chain

People of the Bahamas

Eighty-five percent of the Bahamian population is of African heritage. About two-thirds of the population reside on New Providence Island (the location of Nassau). Many ancestors arrived in the Bahama Islands when they served as a staging area for the slave trade in the early 1800s. Others accompanied thousands of British loyalists who fled the American colonies during the Revolutionary War.

School attendance is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16. The government fully operates 158 of the 210 primary and secondary schools in The Bahamas. The other 52 schools are privately operated. Enrollment for state and private primary and secondary schools amounts to more than 66,000 students. The College of The Bahamas, established in Nassau in 1974, provides programs leading to bachelors and associates degrees. The college is now converting from a 2-year to a 4-year institution. Several non-Bahamian colleges also offer higher education programs in The Bahamas.

Population: 301,790
note:  estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:  29.43% (male 44,179; female 43,486)
15-64 years:  64.46% (male 94,329; female 97,674)
65 years and over:  6.11% (male 7,618; female 10,566)
Population growth rate: 0.93%
Birth rate: 19.1 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 7.14 deaths/1,000 population
Net migration rate: -2.65 migrant(s)/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: 17.03 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:  70.46 years
male:  67.27 years
female:  73.71 years
Total fertility rate: 2.3 children born/woman
noun: Bahamian(s)
adjective: Bahamian
Ethnic groups: black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3%
Religions: Baptist 32%, Anglican 20%, Roman Catholic 19%, Methodist 6%, Church of God 6%, other Protestant 12%, none or unknown 3%, other 2%
Languages: English, Creole (among Haitian immigrants)
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.2%
male: 98.5%
female: 98% (1995 est.)

SOURCES: The World Factbook, U.S. Department of State

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Date of Cutscene: 14 November 2016
Location: "City of Ravnica <Rav>" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki.[[City of Ravnica <Rav>]]
Synopsis: "City of Ravnica <Rav>" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki.With her wrath at Ijiwaru starting to burn out, Yuna goes back to where it all began, trying to get a better grip on her emotions.
Thanks to: Yunomi Stadler, Rhapsody, Ijiwaru
Cast of Characters: "City of Ravnica <Rav>" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki.Yuna Kagurazaka
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The hotter a fire burns, the faster it burns out; unless it's tended and more fuel fed to the flames, eventually nothing will be left but ashes.

So it is with Yuna's anger. At the moment that she heard Yunomi's death, her wrath against Ijiwaru was kindled, instantly igniting to a lethal blaze that should have ended in the magic-eater's death. She can still remember the sound of her fist slamming into his face, the feel of his jaw cracking under her knuckles ...

But then, nothing. Ijiwaru vanished with the other magic-eaters, and Yuna's fury had no outlet - doubly so, when Maya tackled her. The Junker meant well, of course, and Yuna doesn't hold the intervention against her friend; normally, Yuna seeks to avoid taking a life, no matter what it costs, and the last time she resorted to killing, it nearly broke her spirit. But the loss of a friend's life - one of those irreplaceable treasures, precious beyond any metal or jewel - has never failed to incite Yuna's uttermost rage.

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And all the while, the fury which drove her to seek Ijiwaru's death was slowly ebbing away, dissolving into sorrow or simply burning itself out a little bit at a time.

While anger comes easily for Yuna, hatred - which should be anger's neighbor - is largely foreign to her: the sustained malice which leads a person to desire someone else's suffering or destruction has never been able to find purchase in her heart. Even staying angry for a long time is difficult; Yuna can hold a grudge, but she doesn't enjoy trying to do so - particularly when she'd rather try to turn an enemy into a friend, even when that seems impossible. Ijiwaru is the first individual she's met whom she hasn't wanted to try and befriend, just because of his hunting of Yunomi and the feeling Yuna got when he first showed up at the Ravnican guilds' conclave.

For the first time since Yunomi's ... for the first time since that day at the Nexus, when she had thought they'd be welcoming Yunomi home (even if only in passing), Yuna puts on the clothes she'd worn that day. White blouse and red skirt, reminiscent of a miko's vestments; a light blue sweater and midnight-blue tights, for warmth and to add the Izzet League's other color, complimenting the red. For jewelry, she puts on the red and blue magatama earrings and the silver dragon necklace she'd bought in the Namamura District, as well as the five-stone bracelet she commissioned from Rarity. She pauses briefly in front of the mirror, her face somber; this outfit was supposed to be celebratory, even if the circumstances had been far from ideal. Yunomi had only been coming back to face Ravnican justice, and Ijiwaru ...

Ijiwaru turned it into a deathtrap for Yunomi herself. Even Sakiaro died, after being cruelly drained and used as bait to draw Yunomi out; his daughter's death was too much for the old tanuki to take on top of those, even after Yuna and Sanary had tried to get him to safety.

Yuna opens her eyes again, gazing once more at her reflection. Even the clear memory of Yunomi's and Sakiaro's deaths doesn't quite drive her back to wanting to kill Ijiwaru with her own hands. When did mercy start to prevail over revenge again? Was it when Sanary proposed keeping Ijiwaru alive so that they could torture him with repeated deaths? Was it before that? Was it as early as Maya's reminder that Yuna is not a killer, that she should not be a killer?

... It's not that important. Yuna straightens her sweater, making sure it's securely buttoned, and heads out; Elner teleports back from wherever the robo-faerie was, and flits along next to her shoulder, all the way down to the Mana Nexus.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Bernhardt as Gismonda

Mucha wasn't the only artist of his time to portray Sarah Bernhardt — he was the most famous artist to do so. As an actress, Bernhardt knew the value of PR image, and so made the effort to go beyond the theatre stage to portray her characters via the great artists of her time.  In doing so she became the most iconic actress of that time.

Here below, she is Gismonda, Duchess of Athens in Sardou's play—"greatest of Bernhardt's artistic triumphs", as portrayed in 1896 by Theobald Chartran

And below from here is Mucha's famous poster of Bernhardt as Gismonda from 1894.

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Julia "Koimalin" Torres said...

I had not seen this portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, I really thought that Alfons Mucha was the only one that had been painted. :D
I can feel the influence of Mucha poster of the portrait of Chartres Theobald, ofall modes do not think that's bad ;)

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This Sunday is Easter and Christians will rush to the empty tomb to see and hear and proclaim the foolishness of the Cross. With shouts of joy we will declare, ‘He is Risen!’ and others will respond, ‘He is Risen indeed!’

All the while an unbelieving world cries, ‘April fools!’

It is a rare occurance, the confluence of April Fools’ Day and Easter. The last time they shared a day was in 1956. After 2018, the next time they’ll fall on the same day will be in 2029, then again in 2040, but then not again until after the turn of the century.

Making the most of every opportunity, let us prepare to wish a Happy April Fools day to all those who know the foolishness of God that leads to salvation.

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.'”  1 Corinthians 1:18-19

“Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called.Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-29

Consider the message of the Cross. In an act seen by the world as utter foolishness, God redeems His Creation.  The Cross is the climax of history. It is the event that makes sense of all that happens before and all that happens after. To those who are being saved, the message of the Cross is salvation, redemption, love, forgiveness, eternal life. But the message of the Cross is, to many, foolishness.

While I cherish the Cross, I recognize that I do so because God has given me eyes to see, ears to hear, and a mind to comprehend that which is too wonderful for me! It is a mystery which remains hidden to many. I shall not boast in this knowledge, but I do long for others to see what I see in the person and work of Jesus Christ upon the Cross.

This Sunday, we will rise early and rush to an empty tomb to celebrate Jesus Christ’s physical resurrection from the dead. We will turn, and by faith, put our hope of salvation from sin and unto eternal life in the Son whom God raised – and in Him we will have life, real, abundant and eternal. That message, the message of the Cross, is utter foolishness to those who have no hope of salvation and they see us as fools.

Easter Sunday falls this year on April Fools day, providing an unusual opportunity for us to declare the wisdom of God in the foolishness of the Cross. But we must recognize that we declare this hope to a world full of people who literally see things differently than we do.

Consider what you thought about today and why you did what you did. What thoughts passed through your mind that would be considered utter foolishness by the standards of the world? What spiritual insights did the Holy Spirit impress upon your mind that the world would see as foolish ideas? Did you give yourself away? Did you consider others as better than yourself? Do you work as if unto the Lord? Did you go the extra mile simply as a demonstration of love? Did you think about your ‘Cross Walk’ at the crosswalk? Did you consider the glory of the Lord and the possibility of the Son rise when you saw the sunrise?

To you the world cries, ‘You fool!’  And the truth of the Scriptures is confirmed:

“The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”  1 Corinthians 1:18

With that knowledge we turn toward the fools in the world who say in their hearts there is no God (Psalm 14:1) and we share with them the radical love of God in Jesus Christ.

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Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Hibernate Questions

By Shambhu Kumar  |  05:35 No comments

Why Hibernate?
The reasons are plenty, weighing in favor of Hibernate clearly.
  1. Cost effective. Just imagine when you are using EJBs instead of Hibernate. One has to invest in Application Server( Websphere, Weblogic etc.),learning curve for EJB is slow and requires special training if your developers are not equipped with the EJB know-how.
  2. The developers get rid of writing complex SQLs and no more need of JDBC APIs for resultset handling. Even less code than JDBC. In fact the OO developers work well when they have to deal with object then writing lousy queries.
  3. High performance then EJBs (if we go by their industry reputation),which itself a container managed, heavyweight solution.
  4. Switching to other SQL database requires few changes in Hibernate configuration file and requires least clutter than EJBs.
  5. EJB itself has modeled itself on Hibernate principle in its latest version i.e. EJB3 because of apparent reasons.
What are different fetch strategies Hibernate have?
A fetching strategy in Hibernate is used for retrieving associated objects if the application needs to navigate the association. They may be declared in the O/R mapping metadata, or over-ridden by a particular HQL or Criteria query.
Hibernate3 defines the following fetching strategies:
  1. Join fetching - Hibernate retrieves the associated instance or collection in the same SELECT, using an OUTER JOIN.
  2. Select fetching - a second SELECT is used to retrieve the associated entity or collection. Unless you explicitly disable lazy fetching by specifying lazy="false", this second select will only be executed when you actually access the association.
  3. Subselect fetching - a second SELECT is used to retrieve the associated collections for all entities retrieved in a previous query or fetch. Unless you explicitly disable lazy fetching by specifying lazy="false", this second select will only be executed when you actually access the association.
  4. Batch fetching - an optimization strategy for select fetching - Hibernate retrieves a batch of entity instances or collections in a single SELECT, by specifying a list of primary keys or foreign keys.
Hibernate also distinguishes between:
Immediate fetching - an association, collection or attribute is fetched immediately, when the owner is loaded.
  1. Lazy collection fetching - a collection is fetched when the application invokes an operation upon that collection. (This is the default for collections.)
  2. "Extra-lazy" collection fetching - individual elements of the collection are accessed from the database as needed. Hibernate tries not to fetch the whole collection into memory unless absolutely needed (suitable for very large collections)
  3. Proxy fetching - a single-valued association is fetched when a method other than the identifier getter is invoked upon the associated object.
  4. "No-proxy" fetching - a single-valued association is fetched when the instance variable is accessed. Compared to proxy fetching, this approach is less lazy (the association is fetched even when only the identifier is accessed) but more transparent, since no proxy is visible to the application. This approach requires buildtime bytecode instrumentation and is rarely necessary.
  5. Lazy attribute fetching - an attribute or single valued association is fetched when the instance variable is accessed. This approach requires buildtime bytecode instrumentation and is rarely necessary.
We use fetch to tune performance. We may use lazy to define a contract for what data is always available in any detached instance of a particular class.

Compare JDBC/DAO with Hibernate?
Hibernate and straight SQL through JDBC are different approaches. They both have their specific significance in different scenarios .
  1. If your application is not to big and complex, not too many tables and queries involved then it will be better to use JDBC.
  2. While Hibernate is a POJO based ORM tool, using JDBC underneath to connect to database, which lets one to get rid of writing SQLs and associated JDBC code to fetch resultset ,meaning less LOC but more of configuration work.
  3. It will suit better when you have large application involving large volume of data and queries. Moreover lazy loading, caching of data helps in having better performance and you need not call the database every time rather data stays in object form which can be reused.

What is the general flow of Hibernate communication with RDBMS?
The general flow of Hibernate communication with RDBMS is :
  1. Load the Hibernate configuration file and create configuration object. It will automatically load all hbm mapping files
  2. Create session factory from configuration object
  3. Get one session from this session factory
  4. Create HQL Query
  5. Execute query to get list containing Java objects
Q. What is a SessionFactory? Is it a thread-safe object?
Answer: SessionFactory is Hibernate’s concept of a single datastore and is threadsafe so that many threads can access it concurrently and request for sessions and immutable cache of compiled mappings for a single database. A SessionFactory is usually only built once at startup. SessionFactory should be wrapped in some kind of singleton so that it can be easily accessed in an application code.

Creating session Factory in hibernate 4.*
private SessionFactory sessionFactory = null;
// Creating SessionFactory using 4.2 version of Hibernate
Configuration config = new Configuration().configure();
// Build a Registry with our configuration properties
ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry = new ServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(
// create the session factory
sessionFactory = config.buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistry);

Creating session factory in Hibernate 3.*
sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

What role does the SessionFactory interface play in Hibernate?
The application obtains Session instances from a SessionFactory. There is typically a single SessionFactory for the whole application—created during application initialization. The SessionFactory caches generate SQL statements and other mapping metadata that Hibernate uses at runtime. It also holds cached data that has been read in one unit of work and may be reused in a future unit of work

What role does the Session interface play in Hibernate?
The Session interface is the primary interface used by Hibernate applications. It is a single-threaded, short-lived object representing a conversation between the application and the persistent store. It allows you to create query objects to retrieve persistent objects.

Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
Session interface role:
  1. Wraps a JDBC connection
  2. Factory for Transaction
  3. Holds a mandatory (first-level) cache of persistent objects, used when navigating the object graph or looking up objects by identifier
How to Implement second level cache?
In hibernate.cfg.xml
<property name="cache.use_second_level_cache">true</property>
<property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider</property>

In Entity Class
@Table(name = "student")
@Cacheable //this annotation is use for enabling cache
public class Student

What’s the difference between load() and get()?

Only use the load() method if you are sure that the object exists.
If you are not sure that the object exists, then use one of the get()methods.
Load() method will throw an exception if the unique id is not found in the database.
get() method will return null if the unique id is not found in the database.
Load() just returns a proxy by default and database won’t be hit until the proxy is first invoked.
get() will hit the database immediately.

What is the difference between and merge and update ?
Use update() if you are sure that the session does not contain an already persistent instance with the same identifier,
and merge()if you want to merge your modifications at any time without consideration of the state of the session.

Q. What is the difference between the session.update() method and the session.lock() method?
 Both of these methods and saveOrUpdate() method are intended for reattaching a detached object. The session.lock() method simply reattaches the object to the session without checking or updating the database on the assumption that the database in sync with the detached object. It is the best practice to use either session.update(..) or session.saveOrUpdate(). Use session.lock() only if you are absolutely sure that the detached object is in sync with your detached object or if it does not matter because you will be overwriting all the columns that would have changed later on within the same transaction.
Note: When you reattach detached objects you need to make sure that the dependent objects are reatched as well.

Q. How would you reatach detached objects to a session when the same object has already been loaded into the session?
You can use the session.merge() method call.

Q. What are the general considerations or best practices for defining your Hibernate persistent classes?
1.      You must have a default no-argument constructor for your persistent classes and there should be getXXX() (i.e accessor/getter) and setXXX( i.e. mutator/setter) methods for all your persistable instance variables.
2.      You should implement the equals() and hashCode() methods based on your business key and it is important not to use the id field in your equals() and hashCode() definition if the id field is a surrogate key (i.e. Hibernate managed identifier). This is because the Hibernate only generates and sets the field when saving the object.
3.      It is recommended to implement the Serializable interface. This is potentially useful if you want to migrate around a multi-processor cluster.
4.      The persistent class should not be final because if it is final then lazy loading cannot be used by creating proxy objects.
5.      Use XDoclet tags for generating your *.hbm.xml files or Annotations (JDK 1.5 onwards), which are less verbose than *.hbm.xml files.

Question: What happens when both hibernate.properties and hibernate.cfg.xmlare in the classpath?
Answer: The settings of the XML configuration file will override the settings used in the properties.

Question: What methods must the persistent classes implement in Hibernate?
Answer: Since Hibernate instantiates persistent classes using Constructor.newInstance(), it requires a constructor with no arguments for every persistent class. And getter and setter methods for all the instance variables.

Question: What are derived properties?
Answer: The properties that are not mapped to a column, but calculated at runtime by evaluation of an expression are called derived properties. The expression can be defined using the formula attribute of the element. Ex:- If firstName and lastName is field then we can just write one method
  getFullName(){ return firstName+" "+lastName()}

Question: How can you make a property be read from the database but not modified in anyway (make it immutable)?
Answer: Use insert="false" and update="false" attributes.

Question: How can a whole class be mapped as immutable?
Answer: By using the mutable="false" attribute in the class mapping.

Define HibernateTemplate?
org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTemplateis a helper class which provides different methods for querying/retrieving data from the database. It also converts checked HibernateExceptions into unchecked DataAccessExceptions.

What are the benefits does HibernateTemplate provide?
The benefits of HibernateTemplate are :
  1. HibernateTemplate, a Spring Template class simplifies interactions with Hibernate Session.
  2. Common functions are simplified to single method calls.
  3. Sessions are automatically closed.
  4. Exceptions are automatically caught and converted to runtime exceptions.
Why to use HQL?
  • Full support for relational operations: HQL allows representing SQL queries in the form of objects. Hibernate Query Language uses Classes and properties instead of tables and columns.
  • Return result as Object: The HQL queries return the query result(s) in the form of object(s), which is easy to use. This eliminates the need of creating the object and populating the data from result set.
  • Polymorphic Queries: HQL fully supports polymorphic queries. Polymorphic queries results the query results along with all the child objects if any.
  • Easy to Learn: Hibernate Queries are easy to learn and it can be easily implemented in the applications.
  • Support for Advance features: HQL contains many advance features such as pagination, fetch join with dynamic profiling, Inner/outer/full joins, Cartesian products. It also supports Projection, Aggregation (max, avg) and grouping, Ordering, Sub queries and SQL function calls.
  • Database independent: Queries written in HQL are database independent (If database supports the underlying feature).
Does Hibernate implement its functionality using a minimal number of database queries to ensure optimal output?
Hibernate can make certain optimizations all the time:
  • Caching objects - The session is a transaction-level cache of persistent objects. You may also enable a JVM-level/cluster cache to memory and/or local disk.
  • Executing SQL statements later, when needed - The session never issues an INSERT or UPDATE until it is actually needed. So if an exception occurs and you need to abort the transaction, some statements will never actually be issued. Furthermore, this keeps lock times in the database as short as possible (from the late UPDATE to the transaction end).
  • Never updating unmodified objects - It is very common in hand-coded JDBC to see the persistent state of an object updated, just in case it changed.....for example, the user pressed the save button but may not have edited any fields. Hibernate always knows if an object's state actually changed, as long as you are inside the same (possibly very long) unit of work.
  • Efficient Collection Handling - Likewise, Hibernate only ever inserts/updates/deletes collection rows that actually changed.
  • Rolling two updates into one - As a corollary to (1) and (3), Hibernate can roll two seemingly unrelated updates of the same object into one UPDATE statement.
  • Updating only the modified columns - Hibernate knows exactly which columns need updating and, if you choose, will update only those columns.
  • Outer join fetching - Hibernate implements a very efficient outer-join fetching algorithm! In addition, you can use subselect and batch pre-fetch optimizations.
  • Lazy collection initialization
  • Lazy object initialization - Hibernate can use runtime-generated proxies (CGLIB) or interception injected through byte code instrumentation at build-time.

Q. When does an object become detached?
Session session1 = sessionFactory.openSession();
//myCar is a persistent object at this stage.
Car myCar = session1.get(Car.class, carId);
//once the session is closed myCar becomes a detached object

you can now pass the myCar object all the way upto the presentation tier. It can be modified without any effect to your database table.

 //no effect on the database

When you are ready to persist this change to the database, it can be reattached to another session as shown below:
Session session2 = sessionFactory.openSession();
Transaction tx = session2.beginTransaction();
session2.update(myCar); //detached object myCar gets re-attached
tx.commit();            //change is synchronized with the database.

Q. Explain hibernate object states? Explain hibernate objects life cycle?
Persistent objects and collections are short lived single threaded objects, which store the persistent state. These objects synchronize their state with the database depending on your flush strategy (i.e. auto-flush where as soon as setXXX() method is called or an item is removed from a Set, List  etc or define your own synchronization points with session.flush(), transaction.commit() calls). If you remove an item from a persistent collection like a Set, it will be removed from the database either immediately or when flush() or commit() is called depending on your flush strategy. They are Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) and are currently associated with a session. As soon as the associated session is closed, persistent objects become detached objects and are free to use directly as data transfer objects in any application layers like business layer, presentation layer etc.

Detached objects and collections are instances of persistent objects that were associated with a session but currently not associated with a session. These objects can be freely used as Data Transfer Objects without having any impact on your database. Detached objects can be later on attached to another session by calling methods like session.update(), session.saveOrUpdate() etc. and become persistent objects.

Transient objects and collections are instances of persistent objects that were never associated with a session. These objects can be freely used as Data Transfer Objects without having any impact on your database. Transient objects become persistent objects when associated to a session by calling methods like session.save( ), session.persist( )  etc.
Q. What are the benefits of detached objects?
  • When long transactions are required due to user think-time, it is the best practice to break the long transaction up into two or more transactions. You can use detached objects from the first transaction to carry data all the way up to the presentation layer. These detached objects get modified outside a transaction and later on re-attached to a new transaction via another session.
  • In general, working with detached objects is quite cumbersome, and it is better not to clutter up the session with them if possible. It is better to discard them and re-fetch them on subsequent requests. This approach is not only more portable but also more efficient because - the objects hang around in Hibernate's cache anyway.
  • Also from pure rich domain driven design perspective, it is recommended to use DTOs (DataTransferObjects) and DOs (DomainObjects) to maintain the separation between Service and UI tiers.
 Difference between JDBC and hibernate
  1. Hibernate is data base independent, your code will work for all ORACLE,MySQL ,SQLServer etc. In case of JDBC query must be data base specific.
  2. As Hibernate is set of Objects, you don’t need to learn SQL language. You can treat TABLE as an Object. Only Java knowledge is need. In case of JDBC you need to learn SQL.
  3. Don’t need Query tuning in case of Hibernate. If you use Criteria Quires in Hibernate then hibernate automatically tuned your query and return best result with performance.In case of JDBC you need to tune your queries.
  4. You will get benefit of Cache. Hibernate support two level of cache. First level and 2nd level. So you can store your data into Cache for better performance.In case of JDBC you need to implement your java cache.
  5. Hibernate supports Query cache and It will provide the statistics about your query and database status. JDBC Not provides any statistics.
  6. Development fast in case of Hibernate because you don’t need to write queries
  7. No need to create any connection pool in case of Hibernate. You can use c3p0.  In case of JDBC you need to write your own connection pool
  8. In the xml file you can see all the relations between tables in case of Hibernate. Easy readability.
  9. You can load your objects on start up using lazy=false in case of Hibernate. JDBC Don’t have such support.
  10. Hibernate Supports automatic versioning of rows but JDBC Not.

What are Callback interfaces?
Callback interfaces allow the application to receive a notification when something interesting happens to an object—for example, when an object is loaded, saved, or deleted. Hibernate applications don't need to implement these callbacks, but they're useful for implementing certain kinds of generic functionality.

What is transactional write-behind?
Hibernate uses a sophisticated algorithm to determine an efficient ordering that avoids database foreign key constraint violations but is still sufficiently predictable to the user. This feature is called transactional write-behind.

What is the use of dynamic-insert and dynamic-update attributes in a class mapping?
Criteria is a simplified API for retrieving entities by composing Criterion objects. This is a very convenient approach for functionality like "search" screens where there is a variable number of conditions to be placed upon the result set.
  1. dynamic-update (defaults to false): Specifies that UPDATE SQL should be generated at runtime and contain only those columns whose values have changed
  2. dynamic-insert (defaults to false): Specifies that INSERT SQL should be generated at runtime and contain only the columns whose values are not null.

How can a whole class be mapped as immutable?
Mark the class as mutable="false" (Default is true),. This specifies that instances of the class are (not) mutable. Immutable classes, may not be updated or deleted by the application.

How can Hibernate be configured to access an instance variable directly and not through a setter method ?
By mapping the property with access="field" in Hibernate metadata. These forces hibernate to bypass the setter method and access the instance variable directly while initializing a newly loaded object.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Transplanting a climbing Rose

Whew, finally on the other side of Christmas and looking forward to gardening again.  My first thought is to move my favorite climbing rose called Cecil Brunner that have clusters of sweetheart pink baby roses with the most wonderful fragrance. Where I have it now does not get enough sun to get the most blooms.  It's a very vigorous rose and I'm going to move it to a sunnier spot on an arbor that already has Constance Spry pictured here on one side, a gorgeous large cupped rose and also vigorous.  I moved another climber , Lady Banks one summer because it was taking over my deck railing as an experiment thinking I didn't care if I lost it. It was not a good idea to move it in the middle of summer, I lost most of the length of the canes and it's struggled to come back.  The best time to move a rose or climbing rose is when it's dormant or late winter to early spring, for us in the Pacific Northwest that is January or February.  I look for when it loses it's leaves.

Sometimes I will take cuttings in case I lose the plant I'm moving.  You can take cuttings in fall or early spring before new leaves start to break out.  Cut a 9" pencil size new stem not using the flimsy tip of that cane with buds that are close together and about 6 buds so you can put 3 buds below the soil level and 3 above.  Dig a hole about 6" deep in good well drained soil and in a morning sun area only. Put the stem in so that 3 buds are below and 3 above and take off any leaves except for a couple top leaves. Water well and don't let them dry out.  Take several cuttings so you are sure to have some that take and some may not.

Now back to moving the climber.  Prepare the hole first and dig a 2' deep  and 1 1/2' wide hole , prepare compost and processed manure mixture for the hole and mound the center for the roots of the rose to spread over.  Now cut back the canes of the climber by 1/3 to healthy outside buds at a 45 degree angle and cut out any unhealthy, old canes or crossing canes.  Now dig the rose up and dig deep to get as much of the roots as possible.   Try not to disturb the roots as much a possible, roses can be temperamental to move. Spread the roots over the cone of soil and fill in the hole with the good soil you have prepared.  The soil level should be at the bud union at the base of the rose. Make a water catching well around the outside of the soil and water well and keep well watered.

I can't wait to get out there and move my rose, I still have leaves on my roses right now.  I think maybe mid January I may get to move it.  Here is a photo of my Constance Spry rose on the other side of the arbor, I don't have a photo of Cecil Brunner because it's just never bloomed much.  I hope to get a great photo this summer to post providing all goes well with transplanting.   Good luck! and Happy New Year! Happy Gardening! Time to start planning the garden, oh I'm getting excited now.  I took a break from posting but I will be posting much more now that the holidays are over.  I hope everyone had a great holiday.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Fly Agaric Mushrooms

Hey look what we found in Corvallis, Oregon on a walk on Thanksgiving.  I have never seen these mushrooms in person. It was so cool to find one and I mean just ONE, we kept looking for another but no luck. This one was not so perfect but it really stood out even under all the thicket I had to crawl through to get this photograph. It's botanical name is Amanita muscaria and is poisonous and psychoactive. I have read that they are usually found in the northern hemisphere , can't believe I have never seen one till now after all the outdoor hiking, ect I have done. This one was about the size of my fist.  Somehow I guess I never really thought they were real.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Pressed Leaves Art on Antique Table

Now is the time for indoor garden projects.  This is an antique tea table that I refinished and added a wood insert with a wood transfer of my pressed leaves and tapastry pattern art.  I had never done a wood transfer before and I found several posts of instructions on Utube, lots of fun. The wood grain shows through the art and small parts of the transfer is rubbed off giving it an antiqued look. I sanded and stained the old table with a dark stain then painted it with the turquoise paint then sanded off areas to look worn from age.  Lots of fun.   I was inspired by my friends at who is also my neighbor and her best friend who have a business together upcycling old finds and has their work at the Faded Elegance Shop in Snohomish, Washington. Thanks for all your tips from your blog, I can't wait to try more.

Friday, November 11, 2011

New Shop on Etsy

Here is one of the journals I now have in my new 'Etsy' shop.   There is so much fun stuff on this site, some really creative artists.  I have lots more to add to my shop and I will get them added soon. Lots of fun to shop on this site! I hope you will visit.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Plants with Colorful Berries for Fall

There are so many cool plants with colorful berries to choose from like: Callicarpa bondinieri 'Profusion' (Beauty Berry) zones 6-8, Ilex verticillata (mispelled on the photo)'Winter Red' and 'Gold Berry' zone 3-9, Virburnum tinus 'Spring Bouquet' zones 8-10, Pyracantha Firethorn 'Mojave' zones 6-9, Cotoneaster horizontalis (Rock Cotoneaster) zones 3-9.

Sarcococca confusa (Sweet Box) zones 6-9,
Berberis thunbergii 'aurea' (Japanese Barberry) and (Helmond Pillar Barberry) zones 4-8,
Cornus sericea (Red Twig Dogwood) zone 2.
These are just a few choices.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Fall Color Ground Cover

This is Pericaria (Polygonum) afine, commonly called Himalayan Fleece Flower and has gorgeous fall color.  Good for zones 3-9.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Tiger Eyes Sumac Fall Color

Here is the fall color of the Tiger Eyes Sumac that I promised to post. I don't know if a photograph does it justice, it is neon , one of my favorite fall color shrubs. I have a few suckers of this one and think I'll move one of them to another place in the garden.  This one is a little thirsty sitting next to the neighbors hedge, it grows fast so I'll have another in no time.  See previous post of Tiger Eyes Sumac for more information by entering name in the "search this blog" box.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Garden Bench

My favorite part of my part-time job is decorating around the Garden Bench and putting plants in the display that need a little extra help to sell.  Sometimes plants on the table just sit there until they are put in the display with other plants and it's fun to watch the customers stop to take them out of the display.  Even though we had few customers yesterday, the plants just flew out of the display all day as fast as I could replace them. Here is Heuchera 'Pewter Moon' and 'Encore' which sell easily on the table but they still want the ones out of the display. Along with 'Chocolate' Eupatorium, a wine colored Chrysanthemum, and Lobelia cardinalis.  The hot seller yesterday was an Aster called 'Prince' in the display between the Chrysanthemums.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Fall Leaves Glass Platter

Here's a preview of a new product that will be on website soon.  I made this one in fall last year so this one is sold.  It is a 12" round glass platter made with real pressed leaves and flowers and a copper rim. Each one will be unique because they are real botanicals.  I can't wait to get started on some new ones, there are so many gorgeous fall leaves right now.  You can also find a link here in the upper left hand corner of my blog. I will also have candy dishes, squares and some that will be prints of my original designs instead of "real" botanicals. Happy Fall!

Friday, October 7, 2011

List of Late Summer Blooming Perennial Flowers

Here is the rest of my list for late summer bloomers. It has become quite a list, I just kept seeing more to add, here it is even though summer is officially over. You can still find them in the nurseries and get them in for next years blooming. Japanese Anemones zone 5, as seen in this picture is one of my favorites. Rudbeckia Goldstrum (Blackeyed Susans) zone 4, Aconitum (Monks hood) zone 4, Chrysanthemum zone 6, Delphinium (second blooming) zone 3, Gaillardia (Blanket Flower) zone 4, Stokesia laevis (Stokes Aster) zone 5, Agapanthus (African Lily, Lily of the Nile) zone 8, Dianthus plumarius (Cottage Pinks) zone 4, Lobelia cardinalis (Scarlet Lobelia) zone 3, Helenium autumnale (Helen's Flower, Sneezeweed) zone 4, Chelone obiqua (Turtle Head) zone 5, Schizostylis coccinea (Kaffir Lilly) zone 7, Eupatorium rugosum (Chocolate snakeroot) zone 4, Eupatorium maculatum (Joe Pye Weed) zone 4, Verbena bonariensis (Vervain, Purple Top Verbena, Brazilian Verbena) zone 7, Gaura lindheimeri (Whirling Butterflies, Wand Flower) zone 6,  Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian Sage) zone 5, Lysimachia clethroides (Gooseneck Strife) zone 4, Physalis alkekengi (Chinese Lanterns) zone 2, Oenothera missouriensis or speciosa (Lemon Drop, Mexican Evening Primrose) zone 5, Cimicifuga racemosa (Bugbane) zone 3, Aster novae-angliae (Michaelmas Daisies) zone 4, Acanthus mollis (Bears Breeches) zone 7.   Wow, who would have thought there were so many. Also see my blog entry titled "Late Summer Blooming Perennials" for more.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

"Faded Elegance" Bouquet

A gift of good luck for Jill and Cheree of in their new venture in a shop called "Faded Elegance" in Snohomish, Washington. Lots to find in this shop filled with vintage gifts and furnishings along with the door they photographed in my garden that I love.

This bouquet has faded "Annabelle" Hydrangeas, Echinops commonly called Blue Globe Thistle, White Phlox, "Green Jewel" Echinacea, "September Charm" Japanese Anemone and the foliage of Variegated Weigela. Perfect colors for their new shop.  Good Luck Jill and Cheree!!!

Friday, September 30, 2011

Dried Hydrangea Wreath

This is a wreath I made from dried hydrangeas from my garden. The hydrangeas I used are "Limelight", "Annabelle",
"Nikko Blue", and "Peegee".  I pick them when they are firm to the touch not soft or they shrivel when they dry.  Then put them loosely in a vase or several vases in this case in water that is only a third filled. Keep them there for about 2 weeks or until dry and keep them out of direct sunlight.  It's easy to make the wreath, buy a grapevine wreath from any craft store and hot glue the heads all around to make it full or just do some so the grapevine shows through is nice too!  This one measures about 25" across so I used about a 18-20" wreath form.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Blue Flowering Shrubs

Some of my favorite blue flowering shrubs with their common names in parentheses are: Ceanothus veitchianus 'Julia Phelps' (California Lilac) zones 7-9, Caryopteris clandonensis 'Sunshine Blue' (Blue Beard or Blue Spirea) zones 6-9, Buddleia davidii 'Nanho Blue' (Butterfly Bush) zones 5-9, Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Satin' (Rose of Sharon) zones 5-8, Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nikko Blue' and 'Blue Wave' zones 4-9.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Satin' Rose of Sharon

Beautiful 'Blue Satin' Hibiscus! Really a gorgeous blue-violet late summer flowering deciduous shrub. It's deer resistant and attracts butterflies. It has 3" flowers, 8-10' tall and likes sun to partial shade.  Space 4-6' apart and is good in zones 5-8.  Another one for my wish list.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Cimicifuga racemosa 'Hillside Black Beauty' (Bugbane)

This is one of my coolest plants in my garden.  This plant stands out with it's black foliage and sweet fragrant white flower spikes. It also attracts bees, butterflies and birds. It likes sun to partial shade and stands about 4-6' tall and blooms in late summer. It can self seed but will not come true, it will have green leaves with a smoky tinge with the same great fragrant flowers though. This plant has been reclassified as Actaea simplex so you may find it listed with it's new name. Good in zones 3-8.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Perennial Blue Flowers

So many people come in asking for flowers that are true blue. Here are some photos of perennial blue flowers, some border on being close to purple/lavender. Common names are in parentheses: Aconitum napellus (Monkshood) zones 3-7, Delphinium Pacific Giants 'Summer Skies' and 'Blue Bird' (Larkspur) zones 3-8, Penstemon heterophyllus 'Electric Blue' (Beardtongue) zones 6-9, Scabiosa causcasica 'Fama' (Pincushion flower) zones 4-10, Tradescantia anersoniana 'Sweet Kate' (Spiderwort) zones 4-9, Agapanthus africanus 'Blue' (Lily of the Nile) zones 7-9, Meconopsis betonicifolia (Himalayan Blue Poppy) zones 7-9, Salvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue' zones 8-9, Lobelia siphillitica zones 5-9, Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' zones 3-8, Ecinops ritro (Blue Globe Thistle) zones 3-9, Geranium 'Johnson's Blue' zones 4-9.  Others not pictured are Centaurea montana (perennial bachelor buttons or cornflower) zones 3-9, Linum perenne (Blue Flax) zones 4-8, Lupinus Russell Hybrids Blue (Blue Lupines) zones 4-9. So far this is quite a list for perennials, I'm working on a list of blue flowered ground covers, annuals, and shrubs too and will post soon.  Think I'll do a list of white flowers eventually because so many people like to have white gardens too.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Door to Secret Garden

This is a very old door that looks so perfect in my garden. The door comes from and happens to be my neighbor.  I get to see first hand what they have found and what they are creating next from their finds.  They brought it over to take a photograph of it for their blog. This is beautiful, I love it!

Late Summer Early Fall blooming Perennials

Here are some more late summer early fall perennials from the garden. Hydrangea 'Nikko Blue', Echinacea 'Green Jewel', Helenium autumnale, Ligularia, Echinops, Lysimachia 'Gooseneck Strife', Achillea 'Terracotta', Anemone japonica 'September Charm', Hydrangea 'Limelight', Hydrangea 'Annabelle', Persicaria amplexicalis 'Firetail', Oregano flowers, Caryopteris clandonensis 'Summer Sorbet', Lavendula stoechas "Spanish Lavender".

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Late Summer Blooming Perennial Flowers

Here are just a couple of late summer blooming flowers.  I am working on a whole list and will post it soon, there are quite a few.  This is Scabiosa Fama also called Pincushion flower , zones 4-10 on the left, one of my favorite late summer bloomers.  Below is Agapanthus Africanus also called Lily of the Nile, zones 7-9.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Candelabra Nicotiana sylvesteris

Nicotiana sylvesteris is a cool unusual annual. It self-seeds in my garden every year just when I thought it is not showing up, it shows up in late August.  I move it around the garden for a late summer into fall blooming, it grows very fast.  It's 4-6' tall and an elegant looking plant and passers by stop to ask what it is. It is poisonous if ingested and I have to handle it with gloves because it gives me an awful rash so it's probably not good around children. I like having it show up so I can move it around the garden to fill in empty spots to prolong the gardening season. It takes sun to partial shade and moderate watering, don't over water though.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Crocosmia 'Lucifer'

Crocosmia also commonly called Montbretia is a very popular perennial.  Lucifer is the most popular for it strong red bloom and tall wide sword like foliage. Great to add to the garden for it's tropical look.
Emily McKenzie has the same wide foliage with a dark orange flower and zonal markings.
The species Crocosmia here is paired with Percicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail' which blooms early spring throughout summer, one of the longer blooming perennials. It is 36-48" tall and good in zones 5-9, likes sun to partial shade. Great as a pressed flower too.
Crocosmias like sun to partial shade here in the Pacific Northwest. 2 1/2' h x 2' w, blooms Aug-Sept. Good in zones 6-9, some varieties are hardy to zone 5. There are many other varieties ranging from yellow through orange, red, and coral.
Another favorite large yellow flower with the same large foliage I like is Walberton Yellow and blooms a little later than the others in my garden.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Filipendulas, Meadow Sweet, Queen of the Prairie

These are Filipendulas, one of my favorite garden plants.

Filipendula rubra also called Meadow Sweet or Queen of the Prairie is tall 4-6' and medium pink with fluffy heads that are 4-6" across.

Filipendula ulmaria variegata has striking variegated foliage with white cream fluffy flower heads and about 3' tall.

Filipendula purpurea 'Elegans' has deep hot pink flowers and gets about 3-4' tall.

All Filipendulas like consistently moist soil, full sun, bloom late spring through summer here in the pacific northwest. Good in zones 3-8 and attract butterflies,bees and birds. The Queen of the Praire rubra spreads by underground runners and can be invasive but the others stay in a nice clump and get wide pretty fast so you have a nice size plant in no time.  Easy to share with friends or move around the garden by dividing in early spring or fall.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Flower baskets

The baskets on the railing have turned out with an explosion of color this year.  Our moderate weather this summer has prolonged their life and have not bloomed out with usual summer heat. In this basket are: ivy geraniums, lobelia, oxalis, hot pink geraniums, sanvitalia, little gem marigolds, hot pink petunias, verbenas.   I love lots of color on the deck and this year it is a riot of color.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Preview for 2013 Bird Houses Calendar

Here is a little preview of a new calendar in the works for 2013 using my pressed flowers from the garden and will be on the market next spring/summer produced by TF Publishing.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Echinacea, Cone flowers

There are endless varieties of Echinacea and they are such easy perennials for the garden.  They don't fall over and they bloom for a very long time if you deadhead them. They are very hardy zones 4-8. They range from 18"-24".  They love the sun and are drought tolerant. One of the most asked for perennial is Echinacea. This one is Echinacea "bravado", a more flat toped flower. There are so many new colors, here are just a few: Echinacea Sunrise, Sundown, Harvest Moon, Twilight, Pineapple sundae, Razzmatazz, Hot papaya, Pink double delight, Flamethrower, Pineapple mint, daydream, Meringue, Strawberrry Shortcake, Pineapple Splash, paradoxa, Irresistible, just to name a few.

This one is Sundown.

This one is Sunrise.   I'm always on the search for more of the Echinaceas, they are all gorgeous!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Astilbes or False Spirea

OMG,I love Astilbes, very hard to resist, they look like puffs of cotton candy and smell just as sweet. At the nursery they were flying out the door, everyone had at least one. Every one of them were gorgeous, every day I found another I just had to have. Now I have started a collection and have 16 varieties.  It's not easy to find such colorful plants for the shade as Astilbes. They need lots of water and that is not a problem for us in the Pacific Northwest for sure. They prefer morning sun with afternoon shade, no hot sun.  The sizes range from short 8" to the very tall 4' and colors from white to deep red, purple and every shade of pink in between. My favorites are America, Amethyst, Fanal, Granat, Bridal Veil, Showstar, Ostrich Plume, Hennie Graafland, Sprite, Erica, Flamingo, Superba, Chinenis pumila, Peach Blossom.  They multiply fast so my new Astilbe garden is going to be stuffed soon, can't wait to see a whole drift of them. There are many more varieties too. They are also great to cut for flower bouquets!  Very hardy and good for zones 4-8. This one is Astilbe arendsii 'Showstar'.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Fragrant Flowers/Plants for the Perennial Garden

I got a question the other day and one of which I have been asked before and to my surprise the Sunset book didn't have a list for fragrant perennials so I walked around the nursery looking for some of my favorites to show the customer and here is what I came up with, I'm sure there is more and of course there are many shrubs too so I will add more later:

Phlox paniculata- 30" tall zone 4-8;Astilbes- various heights zone 4-8,
Cimicifuga simplex- 3' tall zones 4-9;Erysium Bowles Mauve wallflower -30" tall zone 6-9,
Agastache cana Heather Queen or Apricot Sunrise -30" tall zone 6-10,
Monarda Bee Balm -24-36" zone 4-9;Lavender angustifolia (most fragrant is "Grosso") -2-3' zone 5-9, Rosemary Tuscan Blue - 3-4' zone 7-9;Primula florindae, Giant Cowslip- 24-30" zone 3-8,
Corsican mint -ground cover (as you walk over it you can smell the mint) 1/2" zone 7-9,
Dianthus (cottage pinks)-an old fashion favorite with many varieties zone 3-8 ,
Hemerocalis Daylilys- 1-3' zone 3-9 ;Hyssopus offininalis- 18-24" zone 3-9,
Hosta (blooms) -12"-3' zone 3-9;Asiatic Lilys- 4-5' zone 5-8 ,
Convallaria majalis Lily of the Valley- 6-12" zone 3-9;Viola odorata- 6-8" zone 4-8

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Easy flowers to press

Here are some easy flowers to press from left to right: woodland anemone, anthemis, mexican sage, marsh marigold, little gem marigold, creeping phlox, coreopsis "zagreb", annual larkspur, perennial geranium, annual verbenas, woodland wild flower, fireweed, orange species tulip, creeping jenny, blue flax, yellow species tulip.  This is just a few.  I will be posting a separate page with more details, botanical names, a list of more flowers and leaves to press and how to press them soon. Visit my Pressed Flower website if you would like to see some more pressed flower art and products I make from the art.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Rockin' Robin Striped Rose

Cool red and white striped shrub rose that is 3'x3', desease resistant to black spot, mildew and rust. It's a repeat bloomer and hardy to zones 4-8. A nice cutting rose with several blooms on one stem.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Ligularia dentata "Desdemona"

This strong flower color really stands out in the shade garden, it stands 3 1/2' tall and the same wide with huge 8" roundish leaves that emerge beet red/burgundy and open to a deep green with burgundy undersides. Has tall sturdy stalks with rich gold flowers, a show stopper in the garden. Likes morning sun afternoon shade with rich moist soil. The slugs do like them but worth the battle to have this plant in the garden. This is a herbaceous perennial, meaning no leaves show in the winter months and is hardy USDA zones 4-8

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Cut Flowers from my Garden

This is the best part of flower gardening, having bouquets to bring in my home and to give away to brighten someones day. Here are the roses Alchymist , the peachy one and William Baffin, the pink with double fever few, chartreuse ladies mantle and blue delphiniums.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Tiger Eyes Sumac

Rhus typhina "Tigereye Bailtiger". This one has the most beautiful fall color and is so soft and delicate. It has a velvety stem and new foliage is chartreuse then changes to yellow, then scarlet and finally orange neon. It gets 6' tall and about the same wide. It does sucker but I figure I will have new ones to transplant to other areas of the garden. For the best color put in full sun in moist well drained soil. Grows in zones 4-8. When it's color changes I will post this one again.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Favorite Hummingbird plants

Phygelius or commonly called "Cape Fuchsia" are unusual looking and attract butterflies. They really stand out in the garden. They look like a shrub and have sturdy stems and don't dump over in our rain. They are evergreen which means they have foliage throughout the winter unless we have an unusually cold winter. They love full sun but I have them in part shade and they bloom late spring/early summer. 36" h x 36"w and are hardy in zones 7-9

There is a long list of plants that attract hummingbirds and butterflies and I will post a page soon and pictures to go with them.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Lysimachia clethroides "Gooseneck Strife"

 I love this for cut flowers, easy to grow and it produces plenty for cutting in a short time. It is a bit invasive but I keep it in check by just pulling in early spring where I don't want it to go. It's elegant in cut flower arrangements.

It blooms July through September, 24-36" high with a 4' spread, requires sun to partial shade, average to moist, well drained soil, 4-6" flower head. Good in zones 3-8

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Tradescantia x andersonia "Blushing Bride" Spiderwort

This plant just flies off the shelf when we have them at the nursery. I finally bought one last year. I have heard of people saying it reverts to solid green so I have it in part sun and we will see what happens. I have never seen it bloom at the nursery because they never stay on the table long enough. I hear the bloom is pink so I'm anxious to see it bloom in my garden.

Sun to partial shade, zone 5-9, 12-18" tall

Giant Sunflower

My son and his giant sunflower when he was five that he grew from seed and is obviously very proud, pretty cute. So fun to grow, makes me want to put some in today.

Aruncus dioicus "Goats Beard"

Great show-off for shade, 4-5' tall and really glows in the shade. Super easy and takes dry soil. I see it in the woods here on the west coast of Washington and along side the country roads. It does look better in the garden when it can have a little more water. Blooms spring to summer. zone 3-7

Monday, July 4, 2011

Plants for the North side of the house

Here is the sweetest addition to the garden. This was a square and one day my husband had shaped it into a heart, what a sweetheart, totally surprised me. Off to the right is the varigated "Jack Frost" Brunnera, gorgeous!

There are some really cool ferns Five Finger Maiden Hair Fern,

Japanese Painted Fern, and Autumn Fern from left to right.

These are Candle abra Primroses, very fun flowers. I overheard a customer telling her friend she was looking for some new primroses to add to her "Primrose Party". There are tons of really cool primroses to add to your primrose party. Primula capitata mooreana with a really sweet fragrance, Primula vialii "Poker Primrose", Primula polyantha "gold lace", "green lace", "victoria lace" and Primula florindae "Giant Cowslip" that has a wonderful fragrance that I cannot get enough of, it's about to bloom soon. Just to name a few, all are very different looking and fun!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Alchemilla Mollis "Lady's Mantle"

Lady's Mantle is so cool, a little dew in the morning and this is what you get, "jewels". A must have for your perennial shade garden and has chartreuse flower sprays in June to use as a long lasting filler for your flower bouquets, gorgeous. It's so easy to grow, can take fairly dry soil. Self seeds but not invasive , it attracts butterflies and is deer resistant. About 15" tall and 24" wide and hardy to zone 3. This photo shows just the buds of the flowers to come. When mature the stems resemble the same size as baby's breath like you would find in a florist.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Best Climbing Roses

These are my two favorite climbing roses even though they are both non-recurrent they are worth the show and both bloom for a long time.

Alchymist is 10-12 feet and is great trained on a fence because they want to sprawl out and the more you bend them sideways the more laterals you will get which produce the blooms. I call the flowers a powder puff, they get fatter as they mature . The color starts out apricot with swirls of pink then mature to pale peachy yellow, just gorgeous with a sweet scent. Also a disease resistant rose. zone 4-9

Constance Spry is a beauty that gets 6-12 feet and has that cabbage rose look and can get as big as a peony bloom. It's great trained up over an arbor or up a wall with support. It's a beautiful medium pink and lightens as it matures and a wonderful myrrh scent. It needs lots of space to roam. zone 5-9

Ceanothus "Julia Phelps"

I bought this in a one gallon pot and it already had one trunk only about 12" high when I bought it two years ago. I kept it pruned into a topiary and now it's about 3' high and 2' wide. It is so cute, one of my favorite evergreens because of the beautiful blue flowers all over it in early summer. Also called California Lilac, it's deer resistant, fragrant and attracts butterflies. It is drought tolerant and likes partial to full sun. Hardy in zones 6-9.  I have made an effort to put some evergreen shrubs in my garden amongst my perennials so I have some winter interest and this is a favorite of mine.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

On my Wish list!

This is a Peony called "Bowl of Beauty", it's on my wish list if only my husband would let me take up more lawn. Maybe if I show him this beauty I could convince him. Well at least I can take a photo of it and have it that way. It's as big as my hand outstretched and about 30" tall.

Helenium autumnale "Rotgold"

I really have fun taking photos of my flowers and having the bee is a bonus, he matches the flower perfectly. This one is a sun lover about 3' tall and a mid to late summer bloomer. The blooms are about 2 1/2 " wide. Commonly called sneeze weed.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Tradescantia "Sweet Kate"

This one is so cool, it loves morning sun with afternoon shade. I love the contrast of the bright yellow green leaves and purple flowers, it really stands out in the garden. I am amazed at how long it blooms,at least a couple of months in summer. It made it through our very cold temps as low as 15 degrees last winter too.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Himalayan Blue Poppy and Yellow poppy

My all time favorite flower, it's botanical name is Meconopsis betonicifolia. It's a little tricky to get started, if you have a small plant don't let it bloom the first year until it gets wider and then always dead head the blooms when they are done so it doesn't go to seed and take all the energy away from the plant. If you want it to self seed around just leave one pod to go to seed, that is all you will need. It's favorite location is east facing , morning sun afternoon shade and moist soil but well drained, does not like to sit in water. It's a true blue, my favorite color and rare color. There are other Meconopsis that are beautiful too.

This one is Meconopsis cambrica a beautiful yellow and grows in deep shade and self seeds like crazy. I love it for my north side of the house and if you dead head it ,it blooms for almost all summer and so easy to grow.


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