Sunday, November 15, 2020
I haven't been to the Leach Botanical Garden in Portland for a while since almost half of the grounds have been under renovation for the last couple of years. With the end in sight for Fall 2020, I decided to check out the progress last Sunday. I'm happy to report….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | botanists | portland | pnw
Friday, September 04, 2020
Have you ever been to PowellsWood Garden? It's a three-acre gem of a botanical garden hidden in a quiet neighborhood in Federal Way, Wash. Being in the Pacific Northwest there are, of course, lots of fuchsias planted about display beds in the beautiful garden rooms. I was on trail of just those fuchsias….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | fuchsias | pnw | washington
Thursday, January 24, 2019
A brief visit to Cleveland. You've long wanted to take in its botanical garden. The perfect opportunity. But it's not summer. It's the middle of January. And a blizzard has just swept through two days before dropping almost two feet of snow….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | parks | greenhouses | seasons | winter
Sunday, November 05, 2017
What’s autumn without the chrysanthemum? Little it seems these days. But beyond the generic and ubiquitous mum balls that appear on every corner and outside every front door is the superb artistry and aching perfection of trained chrysanthemums, the Japanese kiku...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — autumn | botanical gardens | flower show | greenhouses | holiday | plants
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
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
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
There are quite a number of public gardens and other worthwhile parks—big, small, and tiny even—in the greater New York area. Of course, not all of these gems are dedicated just to the fuchsia… but they're still thoroughly interesting for the visit…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | botanists | fuchsias | history | new york | science
Monday, November 11, 2013
If you’re like me and go crazy for kiku every fall, one of the best displays is at Longwood Gardens. Don’t dawdle. “The Miracle of a Thousand Blooms” is worth the visit alone...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | fall | greenhouses | horticulture | plants
Monday, October 07, 2013
Elephant ears, Colocasia esculenta, lives up to its name. It’s leaves are indeed big and floppy—positively brobdingnagian sometimes—and corms from some cultivars...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | ornamentals | plants
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
I’m in love with the greenhouses at Longwood. Have I said that enough? Well, maybe. But let me say it again anyway! I’m in love with the greenhouses at Longwood. Especially in the summer…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | fuchsias | greenhouses | summer
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
”The botanick fire had set in me such a flame as is not to be quenched untill death”. Born in 1699 into a Quaker family in colonial Pennsylvania, John Bartram was to become...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | botanists | history | philadelphia
Monday, March 24, 2014
The vireyas are in bloom again and right now is the time to take in their deletable beauty in the Camellia House at Planting Fields Arboretum on Long Island. The Arboretum has a very under-appreciated bevy of vireya species and cultivars....➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | greenhouses | plants | winter
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Summer is now almost on us here in the City. Certainly the dew point is almost sixty-five degrees this misty morning. That’s a sure sign that our often humid, southern-flavored summers are...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | greenhouses | long island | ornamentals | plants
Saturday, April 27, 2013
It’s firmly spring now but just a mere month ago it seemed like winter would never move out. What to do? Visit more conservatory greenhouses, of course! Especially if they hold two of the finest…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | history | long island | spring
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Estate Fruit House, part of the vast West Conservatory Complex at Longwood Gardens, is a carefully heated and ventilated greenhouse used for forcing crop plants...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | fruit | greenhouses | winter
Monday, April 01, 2013
The dazzling floral displays inside the Main Conservatory of Longwood Garden’s huge complex of greenhouses changes seasonally so any visit there is likely to be met with…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | greenhouses | spring
Friday, March 15, 2013
After visiting the Philly Flower Show last week, I wandered over to Longwood Gardens to check out what’s blooming in the Conservatory. It took awhile because the siren winter witch hazels…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | plants | winter
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Coming back from a late winter’s jaunt to Texas, I took the opportunity to stop off at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden to check for signs of spring. I wasn’t disappointed...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | spring | travel
Friday, February 01, 2013
The third week of January was cold in the City. Very cold. With temperatures that dipped down to fifteen on a couple of nights even in my sheltered garden, and that went yet lower still... ➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | flowers | greenhouses | new york
Monday, January 21, 2013
Most mornings might seem too short before it’s suddenly time for lunch, but the days of high summer are long. Near the garden’s restaurant is an extensive collection of daylilies...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | flowers | new york
Saturday, December 01, 2012
As the nights lengthen into winter, it’s time to catch up on some summer’s daylilies to liven things up a bit again. These beauties were from a visit to Montreal…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | flowers | plants
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Born in 1865 in Chatham, a small farming community located in New York’s Columbia County, Frank Bailey had accumulated a substantial fortune by 1911 when he purchased the old farm on the forty-three acres...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | history | horticulture | long island | plants
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
I was at the Brooklyn Museum a week ago or so to see a closing exhibition one last time and took the opportunity to stroll around the Brooklyn Botanic Garden…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | new york | winter
