Saturday, December 31, 2016
Wherever you are in the Universe, a very Happy New Year from Fuchsias in the City!➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — holiday | new year
Monday, November 21, 2016
It’s late fall at Fuchsias in the City and there’s gold in the garden. Sometimes I pine for brilliant flushes of scarlet and orange. Or maybe some deep shimmering hints of burgundy or copper suffusing the leaves. But it’s a small urban garden and I much of what I see…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — color | fall | foliage | garden | seasons
Sunday, July 31, 2016
These days, it seems, a botanical garden isn’t a botanical garden unless it has its own flowering corpse, Amorphophallus titanium. Or one of any notoriety, at least. When Amorphophallus titanum, the so-called corpse flower…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | botany | greenhouses
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
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 the tides of history have since…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | history | science
Friday, February 12, 2016
Greetings. It’s coming straight for us on Valentine’s Day. Surprise! No chocolates, though. No flowers. No Cupid’s arrow of love comes with this greeting. Nope. None indeed. Rather, an icy dagger is plunging straight down from the Arctic into the heart. An extreme Polar Vortex is expected to arrive…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — greenhouses | horticulture | plants | travel
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
What do the great earthquake of San Francisco and fuchsias have in common? Why Alice Eastwood, of course. In case you somehow don’t already know her, you should! Eastwood was the pioneering botanist who spent the whole of her long career at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | botanists | botany | fuchsias | history
