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 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 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 morehovers into the new Fuchsia-Year by spreading its very long sepals like wings. V.L. Crocket from Britain really introduced a true masterstroke with this hybrid from 1965! The one who happens to have a look at a hanging basket with this Fuchsia will be eager to own it for himself. The lineage is not known (at last to me), and there is as well no information about the quite interesting name, but that all gets insignificant by the spectacle it shows. Every single plant grows vigorously and shows large blossoms in abundance...
read morewhich brought back snow to some parts of Middle Europe, and that after the temperature has already been in the double-digits of °C quite often last week, giving one almost the desire to place the Fuchsias outdoors. Satellite will be hardly confused with other Hybrids, once there was a possibility to view more than one blossom at the same time. It was crossbred within the USA by the Microbiologist Charles Kennett (1921-2011) and introduced 1963. He was an Entomologist, that is specialist of insects, at the University of California and...
read morecoming from a famous and renown german Fuchsia-breeder: Karl Struemper, even that the Fuchsia has been given a dutch name. K. Struemper was not even a professional gardener, but did his job as an engine-driver with the German Rail-Track the last 25 years until retirement, being infested with the “Fuchsia-Virus” since then and spending his time with these beautiful flowers. Starting as a collector he later, 30 years ago, moved on to crossbreeding them, and the proud result of this long-term devotion are up to now more...
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