Saturday, November 15, 2025
What’s in flower at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Dying Embers’ paired with some black mondo grass, Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'. I find it’s hard to….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — compaion plants | fuchsias | gardening
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
What's in flower at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia 'Martha Werle' was from the hybridizing hand of Henry Werle and introduced in 1940. It was named for his wife, Martha. The Werles were owners of the well-known….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivars | fuchsia | hybridizers | history | nurseries
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Göttingen’, another character in the book, From the Mixed-Up Fuchsia Files of Gartenmeister Carl Bonstedt….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | history | hybridizers
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
Fuchsia ‘Firecracker’ has stopped cracking most of its fire in the Pacific Northwest. An interestingly variegated sport of ‘Thalia’, the cultivar was originally dubbed ‘John Ridding’ after its finder. It was introduced commercially….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivars | fuchsias
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Happy 509th birthday to Conrad Gessner, born today in Zürich on 16 March 5016. Gessner was a noted physician, naturalist, bibliographer, philologist, Among many other things. He's sometimes even called the Swiss…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists
Friday, March 14, 2025
What’s flowering at The Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘First Success’ is an alluring cross between F. paniculata x F. splendens bred in the Netherlands in 1985….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivars | fuchsias | fuchsia spotlight
Saturday, February 15, 2025
I was just sorting through another box of old files and things. I confess that I have way too many of them still in hiding from my move from Manahattan but, occasionally, I'll get inspired and tackle another. It's very cold out there this week so…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | fuchsias
Saturday, February 01, 2025
When in Boston, a revisit to the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum is in order. The wealthy Gardener was a voracious collector of art, and many other what-nots, with decidedly eccentric ideas about….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — gardens | museums | winter
Monday, January 27, 2025
Unlike that unconscionable arctic assault we endured about this time last year, winter consistently moving itself into the upper twenties ain’t all that bad. Nor the 25 F (almost -4 C) that descended on the garden last night….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — garden | plants | winter
Friday, January 17, 2025
Happy 524th Birthday to Leonhart Fuchs,
Born on 17 January 1501.
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Monday, January 06, 2025
🎼 On the First Day of Christmas
🎶 My True Love sent to me
🎶 A Partridge in a Pear Tree and….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — christmas | holidays | fuchsias | wingter
