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
Thursday, November 01, 2018
A time for remembering. The Fuchsias in City have gone a bit Día de Meurtos for All Saints….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — autumn | color | fall | holiday
Monday, October 15, 2018
We're in the throws of an annual migration. Birds and butterflies, and assorted condo dwellers with second homes in Florida, hurry south to escape the coming cold. But squashes of all sorts are leaving their summer homes in the fields and farms of the region and migrating into the City….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — autumn | color | fall | ornamentals | produce | vegetables
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
Saturday, November 14, 2015
A little more clean-up today. It started out quite a bit raw and chilly, what with the rain we’ve had, but then the skies blossomed into a brilliant periwinkle blue. The potted fuchsias are still outside. Lot’s of blooms opening still. So far there hasn’t been a frost…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — color | fall | garden | seasons | weather
Sunday, November 01, 2015
What is fall? Every season I seem to hold a debate. Mostly with myself, I guess, but what is fall really? Is it the meteorologists’ tidy definition? September, October, November. Neatly ordered pigeon holes from the monthly calendar, whether the weather’s ready or…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — color | fall | garden | seasons | weather
Friday, November 21, 2014
Be
auty isn’t always only skin deep. At least it isn’t at my local farmers market here in Yorkville. Specifically, I’m talking about ‘Pink-a-Boo’. That’s got to be my newest favorite apple. Last time I was extolling all the wonderful apples that appear...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — color | farmers | fruit | markets | new york | produce | urban
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Oh, all the fuchsia! One of the major frustrations for anyone who has ever searched for fuchsias on the Internet is the seemingly indiscriminate use of fuchsia to describe brightish-purplish-pinkish hues of pink…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — color | fashion | history
