Fuchsia Saturday
Saturday, April 13, 2024
When the fuchsias fly in! San Juan Capistrano has its swallows that herald the arrival of spring. Around here it’s Fuchsia Saturday at Fred Meyer.
Fuchsiana. Presented with fine shoes
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
An antique shoebox label with fuchsias. “Presented with fine shoes. H. O’Hara. 72 Canal St. Grand Rapids Mich.” is printed in the lower left corner and “American Fuchsias” in the right. The fuchsias depicted are….➤ Read More
In the spring a gardener's fancy lightly turns
Sunday, March 24, 2024
In the spring a gardener's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of fuchsias. "Help! I love fuchsias. They're my favorite flower. Where can I get seeds or starts?" went a lament just this past week on social media….➤ Read More
Cat or coyote?
Monday, March 11, 2024
The big question this morning: Cat or coyote? I caught another rat out back. I thought something was up when I noticed the motion-activated light behind the house went on at 5:30 am….➤ Read More
Fuchsiana. Buy your meats at Kennedy's Market
Monday, February 05, 2024
Fuchsiana. Buy your meats at Kennedy's Market….➤ Read More
2024 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Hey Fuchsia Fans! A reminder that I'll be speaking at the upcoming 2024 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival in Seattle….➤ Read More
The Twelve Days of Christmas 2023
Saturday, January 06, 2024
That’s it! Some fold up the Yuletide festivities early but it ain’t over until the Three Kings sing. So thanks for singing along to the The Twelve Fuchsias of Christmas 2023. Hope you had a joyful holiday season and may your gardens flourish in 2024!➤ Read More
Fuchsiana. Martha Ford waters her fuchsias
Sunday, December 03, 2023
Fuchsia lore and fuchsiana is generally work on paper for me. Prints. Drawing. Photographs. Sometimes I get something new that turns out to be a miss….➤ Read More
Georg Forster & Skinnera excorticata
Monday, November 27, 2023
German naturalist Georg Forster was born today in 1754. Along with his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, the young Forster accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of discovery in the Pacific. At Queen Charlotte Sound in New Zealand….➤ Read More
Saint Fiacre
Friday, September 01, 2023
Saint Fiacre is a seventh-century Irish hermit and holy man who moved to Breuil, France (now called Saint-Fiacre) to escape the bothersome crowds increasingly drawn to him….➤ Read More
Dreams of August
Tuesday, August 01, 2023
Ever try to respond to a comment on social media and you just can’t find it can’t find it can’t find only to have it eventually dawn on you that it was posted on the competition and….➤ Read More
Gregor Mendel and his fuchsias
Thursday, July 20, 2023
The future Father of Genetics was born into a poor, but stolid old family of Moravian German famers on July 20, 1822. At Heizendorf bei Odrau in Moravian Silesia. At the time the little farming village was part of the vast and unwieldy Austro-Hungarian Empire but….➤ Read More
The Fuchsia Spotlight. Campo Thilco
Monday, July 10, 2023
What’s flowering at The Fuchsietum? Fuchsia 'Campo Thilco'. This hybrid is resistant to the ravages of the Brazilian fuchsia gall mite, Auculops fuchsiae, as well as fuchsia rust (Pucciniastrum epilobii)….➤ Read More
Domenico Vandelli
Saturday, July 08, 2023
Happy Birthday to Domenico Vandelli who was born July 8, 1735 in Padua. Vandelli was a noted Italian naturalist and botanist, originally from Padua, who worked primarily in Portugal. On the recommendation of Linnaeus, he was brought to Lisbon in 1764 by the great Portuguese reformer….➤ Read More
Origin myths. The Prospect of Whitby
Friday, May 26, 2023
Scene in London. Lunch today at the Prospect of Whitby on the Thames in Wapping….➤ Read More
Scene in London. The Garden Museum.
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Scene in London. The Garden Museum. The Garden Museum is the first museum of its kind dedicated solely to the history of gardening. The Museum is housed in the Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth ….➤ Read More
Seattle Times - Pacific NW Magazine
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Just in time for Mother's Day, I was interviewed about hardy Fuchsias by Lorene Edwards Forkner for the Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Magazine….➤ Read More
The Gartenmeister Bonstedt
Saturday, April 08, 2023
I do remember the first time I came across Fuchsia ‘Gartenmeister Bonstedt’. It was at a rather large, and I thought at the time, rather nice nursery. I was still mostly a teenager then. Fuchsias I already knew but...➤ Read More
Édouard André. Horticulturalist. Andean adventurer
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Édouard André (1840-1911) was a noted French horticulturalist and one of the most prominent and celebrated European landscape designers of the second half of the 19th Century. Born in Bourges into a modest family of nurserymen, he received his early training and invaluable gardening experience….➤ Read More
Julian A. Steyermark
Friday, January 27, 2023
Venezualian-American botanist, Julian Alfred Steyermark was born today on Jan. 27, 1909. His long career included the Field Museum of Chicago, the Jardín Botánico de Caracas of the Universidad Central of Venezuela and….➤ Read More
Alfred Russell Wallace
Sunday, January 08, 2023
Happy 200th Birthday to Alfred Russell Wallace! One of the most brilliant scientists of the nineteenth century, Wallace (Jan. 8, 1823 - Nov. 7 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist, as well as a social activist and proponent of social and economic reform. Wallace quite independently….➤ Read More
The Twelve Days of Christmas 2022
Friday, January 06, 2023
That’s it for the season. Some fold up the festivities early but it ain’t really over until the Three Kings sing. So thanks for singing along to The Twelve Fuchsias of Christmas again this year, Hope you had a joyful Christmas and a Happy New Year. May your gardens flourish in 2023!➤ Read More