18-MAR-2015
Fuchsia "Jam Tart"
This one is a favourite of mine, though the plant is a sprawly thing, I love
the double red of this one. Some history follows from Wikipedia.
Fuchsia ( /ˈfjuːʃə/) is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees.
The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) about 1696–1697
by the French Minim monk and botanist,
Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles.
He named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566)
Apparently the proper way of pronouncing fuchsia, is fookseeya, but I can't believe anyone will be using this pronunciation.
22-MAR-2017
The Chorus Line
A fuchsia that I grew from a cutting about 30 years ago, when our girls were flatting
and this particular fuchsia took my eye growing as a hedge as tall as I am!
I still have it growing both in the garden and in a very large pot.
11-MAR-2017
Tiny pink fuchsia
A new addition to my collection of fuchsias in hanging baskets is this little
plant. Flowers come later than the others and the plant has stayed fairly
small so far.
27-NOV-2015
Fuchsia from my sister.
A cutting of a fuchsia my sister had growing... she doesn't normally grow exotic plants
and favours Australian native plants so I really hoped this one would take, and it has.
27-JAN-2007
Deep pink fuchsia
Flowering in January - our mid-summer
02-DEC-2006
Pink fuchsia
This one grows upright and tall.
December 20, 2003
Pink and white miniature
'Ginger' Shadow Dancer pink/white
April 06 - 2003
Hanging baskets of fuchsias
March 10, 2003
Weeping fuchsia
has a tiny insignificant flower.
March 10, 2003
Cascade of fuchsias
They're not as good as they
usually are, they've been neglected
while my broken arm has been healing.
15-MAR-2016
Tiny fuchsia blooms
On a rather tall fuchsia plant... the blooms are on the tips of each long cane and
they bend over with the weight of the cluster of long lasting blooms.
I grew this one initially from a hedge growing many years ago in a rental
property our 3rd daughter was living in, had 2 growing under a linden tree but
not really thriving, so I have tried growing them in a large pot, and EUREKA success
at last!