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
