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
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
My last outing of the year on the last day of the year was to the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden here in Portland. You might not be aware but the American Rhododendron Society was born in Portland and Crystal Springs….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanical gardens | seasons | winter
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Finally a first frost early this morning on the First of December. 31.7 F (-0.1666 C) was just enough to garnish exposed parts of the garden with tiny crystals of ice. But even ‘Gartenmeister Bonstedt’ has laughed….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — seasons | winter
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Scene on the Fuchsia Trail. A quick stop to drop off some new DebRon’s Fuchsias for testing of their potential resistance against the fuchsia gall mite with Mark Danner and the Crescent City Branch….➤ Read More Friday, November 15, 2024
On the Fuchsia Trail. Humboldt County, California. Ferndale on the Eel River. In 1852, 13-year-old Zipporah Patrick Russ went West with her family in two covered wagons. The Patrick Family started in….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — gall mites | history | species
Friday, November 01, 2024
Judging from the way botanists usually devise new names, you would think that Section Schufia, one of the twelve into which the genus Fuchsia is divided, was named to honor a famous and eminent botanist by the name of...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | species
Thursday, October 31, 2024
What’s flowering at The Fuchsietum? Or was, rather. The fallen fuchsia often has an interesting afterlife….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — art | fallen fuchsia
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
It’s official! Mark your calendars now!
I’ll be talking at the 2025 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival at the Convention Center in Seattle next February. It’s not too early to start planning to attend this fabulous show already….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — flower show | species | spring | talks
Sunday, September 01, 2024
Saint Fiacre is a seventh-century Irish hermit and holy man who moved to Breuil, France (now called Saint-Fiacre) to escape the bothersome crowds increasingly drawn to him….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — gardens | gardeners | history | personalities | saints
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Plant names in botany can often seem alien or inscrutable, as if they landed on Earth on a scrap of paper fallen from the pocket of John Carter of Mars, or hitched a ride from the highest heights of Tibet...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | species
Monday, July 01, 2024
Nils Hansson Lilja, the colorful and decidedly eccentric Swedish intellectual, writer, poet, watchmaker, newspaper publisher, gardener, horticulturalist, and botanist, was born on October 17, 1808 at Blinkarp, Röstånga, in the province of Scania. His early education was at Malmö where….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | history | species
Saturday, June 01, 2024
What’s (never) flowering at The Fuchsietum? Wisteria sinensis 'Kofuji' (‘Mekura Fuji'). This is a dwarf Chinese wisteria that remains a miniature. Truly miniature. Even the leaves are miniature and have a graceful fern-like effect….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — garden | plaants
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
Very common in nurseries in the Pacific Northwest is this partial reversion of Fuchsia ‘Firecracker’ back to its parent ‘Thalia’. It’s been making the rounds….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivars | sports
