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The seven most important words: "I made a mistake, I m sorry." Author of this unknown, published courtesy of the Louth & District Fuchsia Society Newsletter, who's editor in turn spotted it in the Felixstowe & District Newsletter while on holiday. There are 130 members in our Society but 20 are too frail to write. The old favourite Cloth of Gold, grown primarily for its superb golden foliage, sage bronze on maturity and red on the undersides, though originating from as long ago as 1863 (Stafford), is actually a sport of the still older 'Souvenir de Chiswick', raised by Banks in 1855! It is quite a vigorous cultivar, forming good shapely bush plants and the small red and purple blooms contrast well with the foliage which is at its best when grown in a sunny place. The body of every organisation is structured from four kind of bones. Though fuchsias root quite easily in just water, they grow very brittle roots this way and tend to have difficulty adjusting to the move into compost. To avoid this setback, add a little compost to the water every few days, to get the 'water roots' acclimatised to your potting medium. Wondering how to get rid of those ugly bumps on the stems of your fuchsia standards? Maurice Varley, well-known to many of us from the many shows he has been to with his demonstration & display 'Growing a Standard' which takes you through all the various stages of growth, from young cutting to the finished article, ensures us scotch brite is just the job! Yes, after you have pared the old knots of the leaf joints carefully with a sharp knife, rub the scotch brite gently over the stems to get them really smooth. If the knots are really bad, however, you can of course just put a big tie over it so it doesn't show. BERBA'S TRIO is an unique fuchsia, as it has three different corolla colours on the same plant!! Flowers of the lax, but stiff trailer have rosy-red tubes and red upswept sepals. The corolla is white, violet or a variegated mixture of the two colours! To ensure the three colour corolla you'll have to propagate from branches with the multicoloured blooms. It was raised in the East of Holland, by Mrs. N. A. Bats-Wesseling, a La Campanella x Bridesmaid seedling, and introduced in 1983. A young man was seen walking along a beach, stopping every now and then to toss an object into the sea. As the onlooker drew nearer, he asked the youth what he was doing. "These starfish have been stranded on the beach by the tide, and I'm throwing them back into the sea so that they won't die." "But", said the other, "there are hundreds of them and the beach goes on for miles, so what difference will your effort make?" Did you know that 10 years ago, for the Golden Jubilee of the British Fuchsia Society a cultivar raised by the well-known partnership of Len Bielby and Mike Oxtoby was selected by the B.F.S. to commemorate that anniversary. British Jubilee, with as parentage Igloo Maid x F .fulgens ruba grandiflora, has small to medium fully double, compact blooms of exquisite colouring: the tube is light dawn-pink, the narrow, recurving sepals are salmon-pink and the corolla is described as a claret-rose-= salmon orange mixture, quite vibrant! British Jubilee distinguishes itself by good vigorous, upright growth, and outstanding floriferousness. Once in blooms it keeps flowering well for such a long time too! A delightful cultivar deserving to be grown much more widely. A pig was lamenting his lack of popularity. He complained to the cow that people were always talking about the cow's gentleness and kind eyes, whereas his name was used as an insult. The pig admitted that the cow gave milk and cream, but maintained that pig gave more, "Why", the animal complained, "we pig give bacon and ham and bristles, and people even pickle our feet, I don't see why you cows are esteemed so much more". The cow thought for a little while and said gently, "Maybe it's because we give while we're still living". |
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