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Lighting brings ambiance to a room. The whole look of a room is dependent on the lighting styles that you use there. Different lighting fixtures can create different moods.

One of the best ways to create a particular ambiance and enhance the decor of your home is by using lamp shades. A simple light can be transformed into a stunning piece of home decor just by covering it with a lamp shade.

You can find a huge variety of lamp shades in the market. You can select them based on your taste and budget. Some popular types are : fabric lamp shades made of rustic weaves, jute and linen; paper lamp shades made of plain as well as exotic papers, classic and translucent oiled parchments. You can also go in for glass, or stone lamp shades. Some of the common option that you can opt for your home are:

You can go for glass lamp shades. They look simply amazing. They give an antique and classic look. Modern designs of these shades are also available that very well goes with the contemporary home decor. Depending upon your choice you can select from lily or tulip glass lamp shades, reverse painted glass lamp shade, ball glass lamp shade etc.

Though these lamp shades are very artistic, but are brittle. Also, they are quite costly. So, keep these points in mind as well before purchasing them.

Tiffany Style Lamp Shades – These lamp shades are made up of several pieces of stained glass, which are soldered together with a lead or copper border around each piece of glass. Traditionally, the pieces of glass have been shaped into patterns depicting some aspect of nature, however, these days they are made according to various art styles. Tiffany style lamp shades are not meant to blend into the home decor, but stand out, because of their sheer dazzling beauty.

Antique Lamp Shades – These lamp shades, made of satin, velvet, and silk, with braided and beaded fringes, and the corner covering made of lace, are beautifully elegant in an inimitable Victorian world style. Usually hand-made and custom-designed, the beaded lampshades made in the antique style are particularly graceful.

There is a wide variety of many other types of lamp shades like chandelier lamp shades, floor lamp shades, table lamp shades,designer lamp shades. You can according to you home decor select among these.

By now in the East you should know whether your chrysanthemums are dead or alive. Some springs you cannot help but wonder if there is such a thing as a hardy chrysanthemum. Those developed in northern areas such as Minnesota are not necessarily any hardier but are merely earlier blooming and thereby escape the early Northern freezes.

On the other hand it may be a good thing for them to die because new plants growing on a single stem are usually better plants, provided they are pinched after each three or four inches of new growth to make them bushy. You will also have much better foliage clear to the ground than when you allow them to grow as a compact clump of many stems.

If you have never tried it, dig up all of your mums and divide them, resetting only vigorous new shoots, one to a place and about 15 to 18 inches apart. Do not depend on a hard woody little stem if soft, succulent shoots from the roots are available. Some people prefer to take cuttings 2 or 3 inches long and root them in sand. If the cuttings are made from the tips of the stems that are succulent, they should root in ten days and be ready to plant in the garden where they are to grow. But pinch off that tip bud after each few inches of growth to make it branch as much as possible. You can keep this up until early to mid-July.

Spraying far Scale

Now is the time when you should start spraying with Malathion or other approved pesticides for scale insects on your lilacs, euonymus, Pfitzer juniper, and possibly cotoneasters, firethorn, and others. Mix up the materials at the strength recommended on the label and do a thorough job of spraying all the twigs and branches as well as the leaves. Just to play it safe… repeat again in two weeks time.

From now on you will have to watch your step when buying roses, shrubs like the orange jasmine shrub, and other plants from places that are not nurseries, but are merely handling plants as a side line. Since they probably know far less as to whether or not the plant is dead or alive than you do, it is up to you to protect yourself when you buy one of those jasmine shrub.

If the wood on the branches and twigs is all dried out or shriveled, better leave the plant in the store. Actually from now on you are better off buying potted roses, shrubs, and evergreens or those that are balled and burlapped. By potted we mean those that are grown in pots of varying sizes. These potted plants have much in their favor for they can be transplanted from their pots at anytime. They are all ready to put in your car: they are clean so that they are actually more convenient than the old fashioned balled and burlapped plants.