Koeberg in a distance
Sunset
He’s watching me….
Color your World – January wrap-up
Category: Uncategorized
Color your World – Denim
Denim is a sturdy cotton warp-faced twill textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This twill weaving produces the familiar diagonal ribbing of the denim that distinguishes it from cotton duck (a linen canvas).
It is a characteristic of most indigo denim that only the warp threads are dyed, whereas the weft threads remain plain white. As a result of the warp-faced twill weaving, one side of the textile then shows the blue warp threads and the other side shows the white weft threads. This is why blue jeans are white on the inside. The indigo dyeing process, in which the core of the warp threads remains white, creates denim’s fading characteristics, which are unique compared to every other textile. Wikipedia
Crayon Facts
- Hue Family:
- Blue
- Year Introduced
- 1993
Color your World: Dandelion
Color your World: Cotton Candy
Vibrant
Jen Hooks from The Daily Post asked us to share a photo of something vibrant. 
Vibrant glass sculptures from Red Hot Glass– Hand blown Glass Studio
Color your World: Cornflower
Cornflower blue, is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green compared to blue. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, his other most-noted favorite being yellow.
The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.
Crayola introduced this colour in 1949, in the box of 48 crayons. Wikipedia
Color your World : Copper
Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.
The first recorded use of copper as a color name in English was in 1594.
This color was formulated by Crayola in 1903.
Color your World : Cerulean tail feathers
Cerulean, also spelled caerulean, is a color term that may be applied to certain colors with the hue ranging roughly between blue and cyan, overlapping with both. It also largely overlaps with azure and sky blue, although cerulean is dimmer.
The first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English was in 1590. The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus, “dark blue, blue or blue-green”, which in turn probably derives from caerulum, diminutive of caelum, “heaven, sky”. Crayola produced this colour from 1949–1958.
Color Your World – Cerise
Cerise is a deep to vivid reddish pink.
The color name comes from the French word “cerise”, meaning cherry. The word “cherry” itself comes from the Norman cherise.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of cerise as a color name in English was in The Times of November 30, 1858. This date of 1858 as the date of first use of the color name is also mentioned in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color. However, it was used at least as early as 1845 in a book of crochet patterns.
The color name cerise has been in use for this color since 1993 by Crayola.
Floral Friday : Helichrysum cymosum
Family : Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Common names : gold carpet (Eng.); goue tapyt (Afr.); impepho (Xulu)
Helichrysum cymosum subsp. cymosum is a very attractive and easy-to-grow groundcover with small silvery grey leaves, covered with masses of bright yellow flowers in summer.
Description
Helichrysum cymosum subsp. cymosum is a fast growing, well branched, spreading groundcover that can grow up to 1 m tall, but in the garden it is usually about 500 mm tall with equal spread. It has thin greyish-white woolly branches densely covered with leaves. The upper surface of the leaf is covered in thin silvery grey, paper-like hairs (indumentum) that will strip like a skin when rubbed.
It flowers during summer, between September and April, but mainly in late summer and autumn, with bright canary-yellow flowers in flat-topped flower heads that look like masses of small discs. Each flowerhead is a cluster of 6–20 flowers. The flowers generally have smooth tips.
Helichrysum cymosum subsp. cymosum is very common and therefore it is not threatened in the wild.
Distribution and habitat
It grows in big straggling clumps, often in moist areas such as the hollows between dunes, amongst shrubs in Cape scrub and on forest margins. It ranges from the Western Cape, including the Cape Peninsula, eastwards along the coastal mountain ranges of the Eastern Cape and as far as Lake St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal.
Derivation of name and historical aspects
About 240 species of Helichrysum are indigenous in southern Africa. The genus name Helichrysum, derived from the Greek words helios, which means sun, and chrysos, gold, refers to the golden flowerheads of many species in this genus. The word cymosum (Latin) means ‘with cymes’, which are flower clusters in which the flowers open from the centre outward, referring to the flat-topped clusters of flowerheads.
Uses and cultural aspects
Like in many other Helichrysum species, the leaves are aromatic. Traditionally, people of the Eastern Cape use dried leaves as a pain reliever, by inhaling the smoke of burning leaves. Fresh leaves are traditionally boiled in water and drunk as a tea for coughs and colds. Leaves are also traditionally used in wound dressings and to prevent infections.
This is an easy plant to grow and an excellent hardy ground cover for dry areas. It can also be used as an edging plant, in mixed borders, containers, window boxes, as well as herb gardens and scented gardens. It is a plant that tolerates salt and grows well in sandy soils, which makes it a good plant for coastal gardens. It grows well in full sun and semishaded areas.
Helichrysum cymosum subsp. cymosum is easy to propagate from cuttings rooted in a sand-based growing medium with the addition of compost and fertilizer for nutrients. Seeds are sown in autumn or spring.
