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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsiana | fuchslia lore | history
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
With the frosts, it’s time….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivation | fuchsias | winter
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | history | sections | species | skinnera
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, May 26, 2023
Scene in London. Lunch today at the Prospect of Whitby on the Thames in Wapping….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — history | fuchsia history
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — gardening | history | museums
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | hardy fuchsias | interviews
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivars | fuchsias | spotlight
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 MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | horticulture | history | species
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
