Thursday, August 01, 2019
This is the last summer of the Fuchsias in the City. This City, anyway. Yes, we're leaving Manhattan! And not just to another outer borough. Or Long Island, or up the Hudson, or even across the river to the former Garden State, New Jersey. This move's serious and bi-coastal….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — garden | fall | new york | urban
Friday, April 20, 2018
Many visitors to New York City know Central Park. It’s big. It’s beautiful. It’s hard to miss. Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, on the other hand, might well be on another planet for its lack of recognition. Yes, even to many New Yorkers. Located along the Hudson River almost at the top of the island….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — gardens | horticulture | new york | parks | spring | urban
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
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Run, don’t walk, to Central Park. Right now. No, I’m not talking about jogging, about getting yourself up and out. Though you might well do with another goal if you decide that jogging’s the best way to go. I’m really talking about seeing the annual fall chrysanthemum display. …➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — central park | fall | flowers | new york | seasons
Friday, July 31, 2015
Scene in the City has been a recurring series of random pictures and comments tweeted from the streets of New York. It’s been going on for a couple of years now. I’m always walking around. I’m alway taking pictures. And I’m always seeing things. Odd things…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — new york | streets | scene in the city
Friday, December 12, 2014
I walk to work. I mean, I could take a bus if I really wanted to. But I don’t. There’s no point to cramming myself into one at rush hour when I can just walk the same route almost as quickly as a city bus can inch along it...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — christmas | holiday | new york | urban | winter
Friday, November 21, 2014
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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
Saturday, November 15, 2014
I love apples. OK, there, I’ve admitted it. Despite their reputation, biting into one doesn’t always mean expulsion from Paradise or the launch of tediously long wars and oddeseys. They’re good. Quite likely my favorite fruit...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — farmers | fruit | markets | new york | produce | urban
Sunday, November 09, 2014
The end of daylight time is only a week past but it seems like much of the world disappeared when the switch was flipped off. Early evening a couple of days ago and Central Park was already mostly abandoned...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — central park | new york | parks | seasons | winter
Friday, March 14, 2014
It’s been a long, tiresome winter this year. I’m sure you’ve had enough of it as well. Monday afternoon was finally blue and heavenly. 64 degrees in Central Park. I was really feeling spring in the air...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — central park | new york | parks | seasons | spring | winter
Sunday, January 05, 2014
That foreboding winter storm, incongruously identified with Hercules, finally arrived late Friday night. I would have preferred calling it after Ganglati, servant to goddess of the frozen northern underworld, Hel, but...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — hortulus fuchsiarum | markets | new york | streets | winter
Monday, December 23, 2013
Walking towards home this evening, I was slowly aware that an uncharacteristic stillness seemed to be falling all around along with the early darkness still so close to the winter solstice. Perhaps it was just me, and wishful thinking...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — christmas | holiday | new york
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Over the last couple of weeks, as fall has been slowly turning down the heat, I’ve become increasingly aware that something else is turning up. First the pumpkins and the mums...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — holiday | new york | streets
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Out front, on the street, the ginkgo leaves have finally fallen. They turned bright saffron-yellow and gold over the last week or two. Then suddenly, and seemingly all at once, they fell together...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botany | new york | history | plants | streets
Monday, September 23, 2013
The autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, that fall tipping point into winter when the length of the night already equals the light of the day, usually slides by unnoticed by most. This year...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fall | new york | seasons
Friday, August 30, 2013
Friday. Early evening. A Long Day in the City so thought I’d have a quiet sit in the secret Conservatory Garden in Central Park. Check out the late-summer flowers. Take a few pictures….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — central park | new york | parks
Saturday, August 31, 2013
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Friday. Early evening. The Conservatory Garden in Central Park. Check out the late-summer flowers. Take a few pictures…” But on this particular Friday the garden was buzzing not with bees…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — central park | new york | parks
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Happy May Day everyone! In the spring, the four-acre Shakespeare Garden in Central Park becomes an absolute floral tapestry, just bursting with color. This landscape dates back to...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — central park | new york | parks
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Blizzard Nemo was billed as a snow storm of historic proportions well before it got here late on Friday night. It was certainly epic. Just not within New York City. The great blizzard of 1996…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — new york | parks | winter
Friday, February 15, 2013
Blizzard Nemo passed through the City overnight and fairly quickly. By 8:00 am the next morning the skies were clearing rapidly. By 9:00 am they were brilliant blue...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — new york | parks | winter
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
Monday, January 07, 2013
The winter sky was clear and the sunset looked to be promising so my friend and I couldn’t resist a detour on the walk home to take a stroll along the High Line before...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — new york | parks | winter
Monday, December 24, 2012
Walking around the City this time of year you can’t help but be struck by the endless variety of Christmas trees. There are the utilitarian and the exquisitely beautiful. The wacky and the...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — christmas | holiday | new york
Friday, December 21, 2012
It’s late December and Christmas approaches. Rapidly. But I’m still feeling a lot more fallsy than Christmasy. This odd state of suspended animation is due in no small part, I think, to the fact that fall simply refuses to leave. It lingers…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — christmas | holiday | new york
Saturday, April 21, 2012
What’s a person to do? Spring abounds. Even in the City, it won’t be ignored. Tulips and daffodils burst from tree wells and tumble from rowed water buckets at the corner deli. Fragrant hyacinths spread their heavy scent from…➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — central park | new york | parks
Sunday, April 01, 2012
One of the world’s most creatively recycled urban spaces is New York’s High Line. Built on an old elevated freight rail line on Manhattan’s lower West Side, the High Line...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — new york | parks | spring | urban
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
