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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — gardens | gardeners | history | personalities | saints
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — art | summer
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | history | science
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | fuchsias | species | spotlight | gall mites | rust
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | fuchsias
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | fuchsias | species
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | biography
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | holiday | christmas
Saturday, December 31, 2022
À la recherche du temps perdu. A vintage postcard from Annabelle’s Fuchsia Garden in Fort Bragg, Calif. run by Annabelle Stubbs and her husband, Bud….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — history
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Pantone’s 2023 Color of the year is something called “Viva Magenta”. I have to laugh at the hyperbolic drivel in the press. “Grounded in nature”? Hardly. Magenta was a trade name applied to rosaniline hydrochloride. a synthetic aniline dye brewed in the labs of….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — color
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
The portrait-carte, sometimes portrait carte-de-visite and usually known inaccurately in English as just a carte-de-visite, was a type of photographic visiting card patented by the Parisian photographer, Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889), in 1853. Based on the indispensable visiting cards of the….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — art | fuchsias | history
Friday, November 11, 2022
Fuchsia juntasensis is restricted to cloud forest on the northeast slopes of the Andes in Bolivia's Cochabamba Department, where it occurs at elevations between about 1,900 to 2,800 meters. Flowering is primarily in the dry season from June-Octoiber. It belongs….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | botany | species | taxonomy
Saturday, May 21, 2022
If you've been following along on social media for the last year, you're probably aware that I've been working on a new design for the garden. When we moved into This Old House on December 1, 2019, the garden left a bit to be desired….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — evil master plan | garden | landscape
Friday, April 01, 2022
Wow! I can’t believe it! A fuchsia with a bright, clear yellow in the flowers has eluded hybridizers and here one of my fuchsias has simply taken up the challenge all on its own. It's sported the Holy Grail of Fuchsias. I think I'll call it Fuchsia 'Aprilscherz'....
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Sunday, March 06, 2022
Success! Saturday was cleanup day at the Oregon Fuchsia Society's Hardy Fuchsia Display Beds at Western Seminary here in Portland. And the sun was shining after several days of rain, too! The OFS Ground Force sprang into action…. ➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — ofs | societies
Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Nils Hansson Lilja, the colorful and decidedly eccentric Swedish intellectual, writer, poet, watchmaker, newspaper publisher, gardener, horticulturalist, and botanist, was born on October 17, 1808 at Blinkarp, Röstånga, in the province of Scania. His early education was at Malmö where….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | history | species
Thursday, January 06, 2022
🎼 On the first day of Christmas
🎶 My true love sent to me
🎶 A partridge in a pear tree
🎶 And Fuchsia….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — christmas | holidys
Saturday, January 01, 2022
Happy New Year! May 2022 bring the best of Luck!➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — holidays
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Wishing everyone everywhere all the peace, love, joy and happiness of this festive season and may the New Year bless you all with health, wealth, and even more happiness as well….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — christmas | holidays
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
07:59 PST (15:59 UTC). The winter solstice. It's here. Some mistletoe, Viscum album, from De Historia Stirpium. This sumptuously illustrated herbal was published in 1542 by none other than our Leonhart Fuchs, namesake of the Fuchsia. Now on to brighter, longer days!➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — holidays | winter
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Fuchsia is often misspelled in English due to the odd pronunciation it’s been given. In fact, I’ve collected almost twenty variants. Spelling bee contestants especially, beware! I have the theory that the English pronunciation….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | spelling | history
Saturday, November 27, 2021
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | history | sections | species | skinnera
Thursday, October 28, 2021
When Carol Gubler of Little Brook Fuchsias in the UK asked “What’s your favorite fuchsia?” on Zoom today, I had to answer that it’s usually “Love the one you’re with” with me and fuchsias. I’d be hard pressed to name just one and not all. Then it dawned on me….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivars | fuchsias | fuchsias spotlight
Thursday, April 08, 2021
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivars | fuchsias | spotlight
