Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony
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Adventures from The Fuchsietum, a small garden in Portland, Oregon filled with lots of fuchsias and their friends. Travels, too. One world, one garden! (Refugee from the Former Twitter)
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Here’s a closer look at ×Gordlinia grandiflora’s flowers. I should’ve added it to my previous post.
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Begonia boliviensis is native to mountane cloud forest on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia and Argentina. It’s found in rocky crevices and slopes near streams. 1/3
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? ×Gordlinia grandiflora is an interesting intergeneric hybrid made in 2003 at the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. 1/4
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Tarra Valley’ is an unconventional fuchsia from Rina Felix in the Netherlands in 1987. 1/4
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Campo Victrix’ is from a series of experimental crosses made and tested at the San Francisco Botanical Garden (Strybing Arboretum) by Dr. Peter Baye for resistance to the Brazilian fuchsia gall mite. 1/5
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Delightful Cuphea ‘Kirstin’s Delight’ has an interesting route, if some tragedy along the way, to get here. 1/5
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Buddleja ‘Blue Chip’, a dwarf, sterile butterfly bush. It supposedly needs no pruning or deadheading but I prefer a tidier look as it’s in a prominent position at the front of the bed. I do both and it flowers better. 1/2
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Little Kniphofia ‘Red’, d.b.a. Poco apparently. Its real registration by Monrovia’s tacticians is actually Kniphofia 'TNKNIPR'. The horticultural-industrial complex tends to like names like that the days. 1/3
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘DebRon’s Scarlet Runner’ is starting up. It’s a vigorous, vertical fuchsia with exceptionally long, thin tubes.
An angry orange sun rising over the garden this morning as a three-day heat wave slips in. Along with the hot dry air coming at us from the east, high-level smoke is drifting in from the numerous wildfires raging there. 1/3
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? The double tiger lily, Lilium lancifolium 'Flore Pleno'. A friend gave me some of its bulbils three years ago. Look at them now!
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Annabel’ (UK 1977). It does well in a hanging basket or as a garden hardy for me. Named by its breeder, Matthew Ryle, for Ann Isobel Mitchinson, wife of fellow breeder Norman Mitchinson.
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Callistemon ‘Wetland’s Challenged Mutant’. Supposedly C. pityoides but probably more likely to be a hybrid of some sort. 1/3
What's flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia 'Galadriel' (left) and F. 'DebRon's Bright Eyes' (right).
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Wasn’t that fun! Hosted an open garden for members of the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon yesterday. Dozens of visitors excited to see the fuchsias and their other friends. It was great showing people around the garden and talking plants. I’ll be doing another HPSO members opening on September 5.
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Grayrigg’ was bred by Alfred Thomley of the UK in 1978 and forms a shrub to about two feet tall (60 cm). Thomley was a train driver and named the fuchsia after his stops at the station in Grayrigg, a small village in Eastmoreland, Cumbria.
Splendid skies at dawn belie another hot forecast today. 98 F (37 C) coming up.
The sun’s strong but luckily we generally have very low humidity. Temps also feel more desert dry than rainforest wet and we cool off significantly at night. Weather returns to our regular daytime programming in the low 80s (26~29 C) on Thursday. 2/2
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Two different variegated sports of the classic Fuchsia ‘Corallina ’ (1844, Luccombe & Pince, UK). That’s the popular ‘Tom West’ (1853, Mellier, France) on the left and the lesser-known ‘Herbe de Jacques’ the right (1978, Schneider, USA). 1/3
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? The daylily, Hemerocallis ‘Rajah’.
Édouard André, French horticulturalist, landscape designer, sometime Andean adventurer, and namesake of Fuchsia andrei, was born today in 1840. From the Archives of the Fuchsia+ Blog: www.fuchsietum.com/blog/files/e...
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? The hardy orchid, Bletilla ‘Yellow Emperor’.
What's flowering at The Fuchsietum? Echinacea ‘TNECHSS’ a.k.a. ‘Sweet Sandia’ because who would buy it under its plant-patent registration. It is pretty, though, and really picks up the colors of its neighbor, Fuchsia ‘DebRon’s Goth’. 1/2
Some unusual sprinkles of rain early this morning from some equally unusual thundershowers passing north. Summers are very dry in Portland. We’re classed as dry-summer Mediterranean and it barely rains here for three months.
Scene in Namibia. Adenolobus pechuellii, the Namib neat’s foot. Another medicinal plant. The roots of this attractive shrub were used to treat liver ailments.
Scene in Namibia. Rogeria longiflora, the desert foxglove or the white djirrie, is found from Namibia into the Northern Cape. It was apparently once used medicinally in rural areas to treat inflammation and wounds.
What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Clematis texensis ‘Zobrika’, a.k.a ‘Princess Kate’.