I agree on all counts GGK!
There is such a difference of information between one site and another!
Let's hope we can do better here at Daves Garden :-)
And I agree it must be Lottie Hobbie, and that yours must be the variegated one and should be moved to a new entry.
I do like that variegated edge yours has. But I am not surprised it isn't as vigorous, in general, most variegated plants aren't as strong as their origin.
When the starts Willowwind2 sent, start to bloom, I'll post a photo here. The flowers are tinier Encliandra's and almost neon in their brightness.
Name That Fuchsia! For that mystery fuchsia in your garden.
Okay, can I call her "Tink" after my favorite fairy? LOL!
I meant that I think of fairies when I see any fuchsia flowers, not that specific one. But hey, I'm willing to play with it.
Thanks, PC.
WIB,
SW
I like that SW! "Tink" it is! I have been working on that database of upright fuchsias so we can sort my sepal and corolla colors, etc. So I will check and see if there is a "Tinker Bell" out there already and let you know ;-)
PC,
Forget looking it up, if you can call Cardinal, Larry, then I can call her Tink, not Tinker Bell. I can't remember which thread it came up on, about fuchsia fruit, but I couldn't resist this berry growing on Delta's Groom I think.
I ate it today. It was good. It has a seed in the middle like a grape, but is sweeter. The birds and I will be going to town over this one. Even with me being sick to my stomach, it was good. Too bad only the one berry. I'd have eaten more. LOL!
Sending photo where you can see the berry. It's right next to Chiquita Maria, but it's definitely on Delta's Groom. One more to follow.
WIB,
SW
Seconds after I took this photo, I rinsed it off and plopped in my mouth. I liked it. Yummy!
And to think I thought that fuchsia's were for other people. Didn't even know they bore fruit or that it was tasty. Thanks PC for opening up my eyes, and giving my tastebuds a treat!
WIB!
SW
LOL, I am glad it tasted okay SW, because you should wait for them to turn a very dark, almost black purple ;-) !!
There are allot of tiny, tiny seeds along a rib in the center, and that is what you thought was a seed like a grape.
I just posted in the other thread about berries. But just in case, I will repeat here, the smaller ones taste better than the larger ones (so far) and they should come off the plant very easily. If you have to pull, it isn't ripe.
And, I am expecting lots of fuchsia berry recipes in this forum by next summer!!
I am really, really looking forward to my F. boliviana berries. Not the alba, the regular one. The berries are what they sell in the fruit markets of Brazil.
That one isn't mine, it was at a local retail nursery, mine just started to bloom a few weeks ago. Here is a close up of the berries on F. boliviana. You can see how black they should be when ripe.
PC,
The berry practically fell off in my hand when I touched it. I tasted it with my tongue, and the fruit wasn't bitter, so I chowed down. It was sweet, and tasted good. I'll wait as long as I can, but sometimes they have a mind of their own. LOL!
WIB!
SW
Did you notice that today's flower of the day is a Fuchsia Lycoides?
WIB,
SW
I just saw that!!! I am thrilled! I should post of new photo of it blooming in December. Wow, and Robert didn't take that photo, I did. But when I first put the site up, allot of the photos were his and he was worried about people copying them. He wins awards all of the time in photo contests. So I just put both of our names on all of them.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
CatSmiling :-)
Either they didn't take down your photo, PC, or they liked it enough to keep it up for another day, or maybe it's another one.
Congrats, GF!
I am very proud of you!
WIB,
SW
Thanks GGK!
And I need to correct myself, Robert did take that photo. I wrote him to tell him about it getting "Bloom of the Day" for December 20th and he said I should take the credit because I told him what to photograph and from what angle, etc. He really is talented though, and has a much better camera than I do.
Yes, I have allot of new varieties to post this coming spring. Just waiting for them to bloom so I can photograph them ;-)
Thansk SW!! You and GGK are both very good photographers.
I am very good with 35mm, but still learning the digital ways....and my camera does not allow for much control.
As for berries, well, by next summer, we are going to need a new thread for fuchsia berry recipes. Fuchsia berry jam, pie, bread, juice, and maybe even a wine??
How about fuchsia berry ice-cream?
Wow GGK! I will do my best. I like #3 the most! I should have checked this thread last night before I got back to work on the fuchsia database. Then I would of had these images fresh in my mind. I want to call the middle one 'Rose Fantasia' because of it's upright facing pink blossoms. The first one is going to be hard, but I bet it is closely related to the magellanicas. There are just so many in that category.
I DID finish the list of uprights last night! I didn't enter every single upright I found. Just those I felt there was a reasonable chance of finding here in the states if I couldn't already find a source for it. The list has 1528 entries in it. Now I have to learn how to upload a database to a website. And I need to build the website.
Still haven't thought of a name for it though. What do you think?
And my own frustrations over trying to indentify two plants for which I do not know the common names and have no clue as to even which genus to look in, has led me to decide I need to add more fields to the fuchsia database so that leaf type and details can be entered. So many fuchsia blooms can look alike, until you see their leaves and realize the two cannot be the same!
I will do a search for white and rose to see what comes up for your third fuchsia.
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Well, my initial search has convinced me of another couple of fields. Such as sepal length. I found a couple that looked close, until I realized they had longer, tubular sepals.......
And one of the hard decisions was whether or not to have color variations in the major sorting fields. By that I mean, stick to just red instead of cerise, magenta, scarlet, etc.for the first field for sepals and only use the more descriptive colors in the second field for sepals. (same process of two fields for corollas).
I am still debating this because if I search for rose instead of cerise, then I may be missing the one I am trying to find.
You mentioned a fuchsia society color chart they use to define colors. What colors would you use to describe your three fuchsias above?
Pc
I think your spot on with the ID of 'Rose Fantasia'.
I'm so bad at describing or naming colors! Also many times when taking photos some colors don't show true with the pics. That being said is why I believe a color wheel would be a very useful tool. I'm still on the look out for such a tool for use, maybe I will email a few Fuchsia groups and see if there is such a tool for use.
Thanks again for helping with ID's and all the work you are putting into the database!
That would be cool! After looking at thousands of photos, honestly, I don't know how they come up with the descriptions they use! And then there are some sites that just use red and purple for practically everything. At least FindThatFuchsia uses the descriptions, when possible, that the hybridizer themselves used to describe their new varities. I think Rose Fantasia is an argument for adding a notes field which will have an entry such as "upward facing bloom." What do you think of "AListOfFuchsias.com" for a name for the website? I want it to be as open as possible to everyone without ads, etc.. Just an source of info nothing else. I think people have probably used these words in their attempts to google such a place. I apologize to everyone for only listing upright fuchsias. Ha, ha! There is still FindThatFuchsia and he deserves as much help as he can get for that monumental effort he has accomplished. Maybe someday he will translate it into a searchable database.
I think I may have found an ID for #3
Joy Patmore
http://www.fuchsiamagic.com/fuchsias/jpatmor.htm
http://monnierscountrygardens.com/PhotoPages-E-L/JoyPatmore.html
You got it! See, I wasn't looking for the color carmine! I was thinking cerise. I even have a note in my database that this one has a flared corolla, like Jupiter and a number of others do! I should have sorted for that.
Hey, where is everybody!? Is everyone chomping at the bit, ready for spring?
I usually at least post some photos on Wednesdays, but now this is my most hectic day and there just hasn't been time to even take photos.
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am still working on that fuchsia list. I hit a bit of a snag, as it turns out the place that I use for websites doesn't support databases. Even the database software program they made! So now I have to find another web host and since it will cost me to do this, I am shopping around before I jump in.
I do though, hope to name the website "AListOfFuchsias.info."
The only other option, would be to post a link at a website with this name, to a "document center." Which would hold a copy of the database that anyone who also had the software program Access, would be able to open and use. But that seems a bit of a chore and I really want this to be user friendly.
I have a long list of upright fuchsias I am looking for and I know lots of other people do also.
Back to work! ;-)
Update on the list of upright fuchsias. Which stands at about 1500 so far. I have gone over the entire list of fuchsias currently listed here at DavesGarden and made certain that every one which can be called an upright fuchsia is on my list AND whether or not there is a photo here for each upright fuchsia.
So! Fellow fuchsia fanatics! We have our work cut out for us this year and I am hoping everyone will check and see if the fuchsias they are growing are on the list and have a photo.
There are a few mistakes in the list here at DavesGarden. So please, check to make sure your fuchsia was properly labeled. Customers like to pull tags out to read them and then put them back into the wrong plant! Please verify your fuchsia with either FindThatFuchsia or another reputable website such as fuchsia societies, before posting your photo or adding a new variety to the Plant Files here.
I'll get that list of missing photos put together ASAP so we can fill in the blanks.
PC, yes I'm chomping, Jim
Okay, who can identify this one!?
Ha, ha, no?
Okay, it is my dendrobium 'Upin King'
But it always blooms in time for Valentines Day and reminds me that spring is indeed, on it's way. So hang in there hostajim1!!
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That's really pretty. My dead looking fuchsias are all growing massively from around the bases. Still nothing showing on the branches.
Hi All
Ok, I got this Fuchsia last year and it survived the winter so it's a Hardy! I was attracted by the
foliage I think! LOL
The tag only had 'Big Red' on it and I can't find a Fuchsia with that name. It was a small plant when I bought it back in Sept. 2009 and no blooms. I only have this pic of it so far no blooms as of yet. Anyone recognize it??
Run across any pics of this fuchsia Pedricks? I may need to wait for it to bloom also before we get a positive ID.
Thanks for your help.
The foliage is very interesting! Should help us hunt it down. Is it a trailer or an upright?
I know it isn't "Delta's Parade' (purple) but the foliage is very close. Nor 'Reading Show' (red and dark blue/purple), but again the foliage is close. I will do some searching.
I have had several fuchsias planted all over the yard and moved most of them to my sunnier border and I am without a clue what this is???
It looks allot like 'My Mum' to me. I need to get a better photo of mine so you can see a comparison. I like the ones with the green tips to the white or pinkish sepals!
Me too! Thanks PC
Does anyone know what this might be? It's the biggest fuchsia I've ever seen - about 4-5 inches long! Really white sepals. I saw it at a nursery and went back the next day - but it was gone!! I want to buy if I can figure out what it is! Thanks all!
Rusty
Wow, that IS gorgeous! Is it a hanging basket type? Another possibility is to ask the nursery who their supplier is and then contact them. Some nurseries are happy to place special orders for their customers. Please let us know if they are able to help and at least provide you with the name.
PedricksCorner
I am new to this forum (So excited to find this here at Dave's!),but was wondering if you ever found anymore info on your "Alta".
I found this:‘Alta’ - Taller, relatively unbranched ‘Campo Victrix’ x ‘Lye’s Unique’ sibling, but with larger deep pink flowers (darker smoky-pink petals). Habit is upright but unbranched, with few lateral shoots. Strongly resistant to gall-mite, fairly resistant to rust.
on this website:http://www.americanfuchsiasociety.org/fuchsiaarticles/petermiterest.html
I know I've seen Alta for sale but can't remember where!
Hope this helps,
gail