Scene on the Fuchsia Trail. A quick stop
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Scene on the Fuchsia Trail. A quick stop to drop off some new DebRon’s Fuchsias for testing of their potential resistance against the fuchsia gall mite with Mark Danner and the Crescent City Branch of the American Fuchsia Society. There’s no FGM in Milton-Freewater, Oregon but it is on the California Coast!
Mark’s garden is nestled in a redwood grove and his twelve-foot-plus Fuchsia “Lechlade Violet” was still showing off a few of its interesting flowers. That’s it rising from behind a rhododendron and next to a F. excorticata.
F. ‘Lechlade Violet’ is a 1984 John Wright cross between F. paniculata x F. xcolensoi [F. excorticata x F. perscandens]. I love its blooms. It probably won’t be top hardy through a Portland winter but I’m going to plant mine out to test how it does anyway.
Mark’s garden is nestled in a redwood grove and his twelve-foot-plus Fuchsia “Lechlade Violet” was still showing off a few of its interesting flowers. That’s it rising from behind a rhododendron and next to a F. excorticata.
F. ‘Lechlade Violet’ is a 1984 John Wright cross between F. paniculata x F. xcolensoi [F. excorticata x F. perscandens]. I love its blooms. It probably won’t be top hardy through a Portland winter but I’m going to plant mine out to test how it does anyway.