is a Fuchsia with a very special, distinctive charisma, as well as in form as in color. But this hybrid belongs to the seasoned Fuchsias: being introduced by the hybridizer William Munkner from the USA in 1960 , there are unfortunately no more informations about the lineage. My plants started blossoming as early as April this year, situated in a place with a bit direct sunlight only in the morning and evening. The leafs are almost delicate, with a bright green color. This hybrid grows rapidly hanging shoots, branching out...
read moreis a Fuchsia with its own special charm and originates from a country populated with many renown musicians since ever- maybe the cause for the name? The hybridizers name is Josef Gindl. Born 1935, he was never a professional gardener but a dedicated hobbyist for that, and beside, bees. His favorites are Fuchsias, and therefore he sometimes started- naturally- to experiment with crossbreeding. One result of this is “La Musica”, introduced 2001. Since then this Hybrid found, due to the filled blossoms with a...
read morethen in the months before, because the growth of the Fuchsias accelerates due to new potting and fertilizers. And, beside that, of course the increasing daytime does its work. So the requirements are all the same. Enough light, a cosy temperature, water and fertilizer-and our fuchsias are great! Now they might be placed outside the greenhouse, there being no more frosty nights. And that gives cause to considerations about the right placement of the hybrids, exposing them to sunlight or half-shade as they are best suited to. And, of...
read moreis one of the few Fuchsias with a deep blue color. The hybridizer is Henri Buiting from the Netherlands, who crossbred “Quasar” and “Leon Pauwels”, both being of sign significant lighter color. The result was introduced in 2006, a opulent growing hybrid with a quite rare hue. Starting with a cold, deep blue of the corollas the color changes to a crimson-purple. The pure white sepals are the rim to the large, filled blossoms, showing a remarkable contrast. But this Fuchsia is not quite easy-to-care: it...
read moredo obviously feel like Fuchsias in liberty! This impression arises in me looking at the Fuchsias i already placed outside the greenhouse, due to lack of space for the ever prospering plants. They may at last grow a bit slower, but therefore more compact with stout branches and darker colored leafs. Furthermore the blossoms are looking more vital and not at all puny as before! Naturally they should be watered even at temperatures about 10°C, but moderately. The most pressing consideration the...
read moreis an easy-care, darksome Fuchsia, therefore suitable for any location and for any possesor! The hybridizer of this Fuchsia is Wade Burkhart from the USA, who is a resident in Germany- precisely in Bavaria- now many years. There he discovered his love to Fuchsias and started crossbreeding them. His phrase for hybridizing is “playing to be a bee”! From crossbreeding “Rohees Rana” and “Oskar Lehmeier” resulted the Fuchsia Lengenfelder Dunkle, introduced in 2007. The name was derived from a small town in...
read morefits with it`s for a Fuchsia very solemn name perfectly to this solemn week. This special beauty was crossbred in Australia by Ron Lockerbie and introduced 1971. Beside that i could not gather any other informations on this hybrid, neither the lineage or the cause for the given name. It is an upright growing Fuchsia with pastel-shades, enthralling kept in the half-shade. Fortunately one needs not to travel to Australia to obtain it, but can do so in Europe, e.g. in Belgium at the well renown nursery Michiels. And i positively...
read moresticks out even in half-shade with its light-green leafs maybe because they are somehow special on a Fuchsia. This hybrid is still quite young and a product of a crossbreed between the british Fuchsia “Pink La Campanella” and the belgish “Zonnedauw”, being closer in appearance to the mother plant: it shows comparatively small, compact blossoms with a large portion of pink, and they are filled like that of the father plant. The breeder was Jos Cuppens from Belgium, who tested the hybrid 3 years and introduced and...
read moreblossoms most beautiful at a cooler place in the shade and is therefore an ideal hybrid on a balcony or in a flower-box at the northern side of a house. This special Fuchsia with the umbrella-like, large blossoms is from the Netherlands, and the special blossoms are a reference to its lineage from the American Fuchsia “Citation”, but the corollas of this “parent” is pure white. “Delta’s Groom” was crossbred by Vreeke and van’t Westeinde with the above mentioned hybrid and a descendant of...
read moremay only be seen within winter gardens or greenhouses, but they increase the anticipation of the upcoming season. Therefore i love to take my camera with me, even if i only want to replant or water. The following photos of this post are therefore all from march, i do promise. Most marked-gardens and “regular” nurseries present hardly any Fuchsias this time of the season, and even less such with large, filled blossoms. By experience one has to prolong the season by own action…or would have to establish contact to specialized...
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