Saturday, June 20, 2020
Even before the first fuchsias came to the attention of European botanists and explorers, Fuchsia boliviana was well known to the native peoples of the Andes. The Incas of Peru and Bolivia cultivated it for its edible berries from at least the beginning of their empire in the Twelfth Century….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — heraldry | history | species
Friday, August 01, 2014
Perhaps the most significant heraldic fuchsia grows on the Isle of Man. In the tradition of the great plant badges of the British Isles, such the rose of England or the thistle of Scotland, the fuchsia of hedges...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | heraldry | history
Monday, September 01, 2014
For the only other heraldic fuchsia that I know of, you have to go to an island much further afloat than Man. Very much further. Afloat in the South Pacific, in fact. But there, as in Flowers and Heraldry...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | heraldry | history
Sunday, June 15, 2014
I’ve tried and tried to find many. Any at all, even. Despite their great popularity in the greenhouse and the garden from their first introduction into cultivation in England in the 1790s, fuchsias are curiously virtually nonexistent on heraldic shields...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | heraldry | history
