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
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
An antique shoebox label with fuchsias. “Presented with fine shoes. H. O’Hara. 72 Canal St. Grand Rapids Mich.” is printed in the lower left corner and “American Fuchsias” in the right. The fuchsias depicted are….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — art | fuchsiana
Sunday, March 24, 2024
In the spring a gardener's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of fuchsias. "Help! I love fuchsias. They're my favorite flower. Where can I get seeds or starts?" went a lament just this past week on social media….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — climate | cultivation | usda | socia media
Monday, March 11, 2024
The big question this morning: Cat or coyote? I caught another rat out back. I thought something was up when I noticed the motion-activated light behind the house went on at 5:30 am….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — garden | pests
Monday, February 05, 2024
Fuchsiana. Buy your meats at Kennedy's Market….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — art | fuchsiasna | fuchsia lore | history
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Hey Fuchsia Fans! A reminder that I'll be speaking at the upcoming 2024 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival in Seattle….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — flower shows | seattle | nwf&gs
Friday, January 19, 2024
It’s been a heck of a week!➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — weather | winter
Saturday, January 06, 2024
That’s it! Some fold up the Yuletide festivities early but it ain’t over until the Three Kings sing. So thanks for singing along to the The Twelve Fuchsias of Christmas 2023. Hope you had a joyful holiday season and may your gardens flourish in 2024!➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | holiday | christmas
Sunday, December 03, 2023
Fuchsia lore and fuchsiana is generally work on paper for me. Prints. Drawing. Photographs. Sometimes I get something new that turns out to be a miss….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsiana | fuchslia lore | history
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
With the frosts, it’s time….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivation | fuchsias | winter
Monday, November 27, 2023
German naturalist Georg Forster was born today in 1754. Along with his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, the young Forster accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of discovery in the Pacific. At Queen Charlotte Sound in New Zealand….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | history | sections | species | skinnera
Friday, September 01, 2023
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
Tuesday, August 01, 2023
Ever try to respond to a comment on social media and you just can’t find it can’t find it can’t find only to have it eventually dawn on you that it was posted on the competition and….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — art | summer
Thursday, July 20, 2023
The future Father of Genetics was born into a poor, but stolid old family of Moravian German famers on July 20, 1822. At Heizendorf bei Odrau in Moravian Silesia. At the time the little farming village was part of the vast and unwieldy Austro-Hungarian Empire but….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | history | science
Monday, July 10, 2023
What’s flowering at The Fuchsietum? Fuchsia 'Campo Thilco'. This hybrid is resistant to the ravages of the Brazilian fuchsia gall mite, Auculops fuchsiae, as well as fuchsia rust (Pucciniastrum epilobii)….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | fuchsias | species | spotlight | gall mites | rust
Saturday, July 08, 2023
Happy Birthday to Domenico Vandelli who was born July 8, 1735 in Padua. Vandelli was a noted Italian naturalist and botanist, originally from Padua, who worked primarily in Portugal. On the recommendation of Linnaeus, he was brought to Lisbon in 1764 by the great Portuguese reformer….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | fuchsias
Friday, May 26, 2023
Scene in London. Lunch today at the Prospect of Whitby on the Thames in Wapping….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — history | fuchsia history
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Scene in London. The Garden Museum. The Garden Museum is the first museum of its kind dedicated solely to the history of gardening. The Museum is housed in the Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth ….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — gardening | history | museums
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Just in time for Mother's Day, I was interviewed about hardy Fuchsias by Lorene Edwards Forkner for the Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Magazine….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — fuchsias | hardy fuchsias | interviews
Saturday, April 08, 2023
I do remember the first time I came across Fuchsia ‘Gartenmeister Bonstedt’. It was at a rather large, and I thought at the time, rather nice nursery. I was still mostly a teenager then. Fuchsias I already knew but...➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — cultivars | fuchsias | spotlight
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Édouard André (1840-1911) was a noted French horticulturalist and one of the most prominent and celebrated European landscape designers of the second half of the 19th Century. Born in Bourges into a modest family of nurserymen, he received his early training and invaluable gardening experience….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | horticulture | history | species
Friday, January 27, 2023
Venezualian-American botanist, Julian Alfred Steyermark was born today on Jan. 27, 1909. His long career included the Field Museum of Chicago, the Jardín Botánico de Caracas of the Universidad Central of Venezuela and….➤ Read MoreThe Fuchsia+Blog Tags — botanists | fuchsias | species