Monday 19 November 2012

A - Z OF MY FUCHSIAS



ANNABEL
Annabel
















BEACON
Beacon
















BELLA ROSELLA
Bella Rosella




















CHECKERBOARD
Checkerboard



















DOLLAR PRINCESS
Dollar Princess




















EMPRESS OF PRUSSIA
Empress of Prussia

















EVA BOERG
Eva Boerg 




















FROSTED FLAME
Frosted Flame




















GENERAL MONK
General Monk
















GENII
Genii

Genii







































HAPPY WEDDING DAY
Happy Wedding Day















HARRY'S SUNSHINE
Harry's Sunshine















HERMAN DE GRAAFF
Herman De Graaff


















Herman De Graaff
















JACK SHAHAN
Jack Shahan
















MADELINE SWEENEY
MADELINE SWEENEY




















MARINKA
Marinka

















Marinka

















MISS CALIFORNIA
Miss California
















NEW MILLENIUM
New Millennium
















NICOLA JANE
Nicola Jane




















QUASAR
Quasar











SHRIMP COCKTAIL
Shrimp Cocktail

SNOWCAP
Snowcap

















WAVENEY SUNRISE
Waveney Sunrise





















WINSTON CHURCHILL
Winston Churchill
















WITCHIPOO
Witchipoo






















One of my hybridised fuchsias ....planted November 2011   

                                                                                                                                                  

To be named??????

                                                                                                                                                

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Thursday 8 November 2012

SAMSUNG GALAXY SIII

Well what do you know!  I have been trundling along with my old mobile phone now for 4 years, yes 4 years!!   When you gonna get a new phone mum my children kept saying to me.  Oh I'm ok as long as I can ring the landlines for free on my contract I don't mind.  But mum they would say you can get much more. 

  Now I'm sure if the kids had been living at home I would have got one sooner.  THEY know the latest technology and all the time they were with me we had the latest gadgets but matters went progressively downhill when they moved out and I am beginning to realise now why,  when we were younger, the older generation were called old fogies!   Now I was very happy with my Nokia N95 - brilliant phone but I was amazed by just how far things have progressed in just 4 years. 

BINGO! I now have a Samsung Galaxy SIII.  No not an Iphone, an android.  Much bigger screen, more  practical and  more suitable for the older generation who need to be able to SEE what they are looking at through eyes that are maybe not quite so good as they used to be.   

So I am a very happy person at the moment, downloading all the free "apps", taking pics and videos and listening to my favourite music and watching the latest catchups on tv on my SIII in the comfort of my car whilst waiting for my elderly mother to finish her shopping in the supermarket. 

And here it is ..........................


Monday 8 October 2012

8th October, 2012

Have been cutting down my fuchsias ready for storing in the greenhouse.  Any hardy ones planted in the garden will be left as they are and cut down in the spring.  I wanted to show you the little multi-pot of fuchsias that I started back in March with 4 unknown cuttings.  They were very small plants and in my blog of the 9th July I was quite surprised how much they had grown but as I didn't know the names of the fuchsias I decided to put them in a big pot and let them do their own thing and not to pinch out again.

This was them in March 2012 when they were first planted.........


And this is them 9th July...........

And this is them now on the 8th October, 2012......
They are just about coming to the end of flowering now.  It turned out that the four unknown cuttings were  one Royal Velvet, two La Campanella and one Eva Boerg.  Such large plants in seven months.

Tuesday 31 July 2012

31st July 2012 - Some of the fuchsias

The giant Bella Rosella fuchsia added to a basket of mixed lobelia.

New one to me this year - Pink Galore

La Campanella

New one this year ..... Ernie

Eva Boerg after the rain.

31st July 2012 Chickens




The one on the right is starting a moult

Here is a close up of the one that is moulting.
Just thought I would show you how the chickens are doing at the moment/

Friday 13 July 2012

13th July update on basket fuchsias

This is how they are doing now.
 
3 large New Millenium and 1 Jack Shahan

One of these got capsid bug and I was very disappointed.  I removed the ruined leaves and sprayed all the plants.

Sunday 8 July 2012

9th July 2012 - Update on fuchsias

Can you believe this weather.  Here in the south east of England we have had rain, rain and more rain and when the sun does come out we all rush into our gardens to try and get a little bit done.  The grass is growing like mad and the slugs are out in force.  But now for the fuchsias.  The hanging baskets I am doing for the middle of August are coming along nicely and hopefully I have timed them right.  In Surrey the British Fuchsia Society has warned that there is Fuchsia Gall Mite in Bagshot so I will not be buying any more fuchsias for the time being and hopefully this dreaded fuchsia pest will not reach me. Fingers crossed.

I have two pots of Genii fuchsias and have been trying to get them into a nice rounded shape.  They have had two pinches so far.

Sadly, I dropped another Genii pot and it landed flowers down and they were broken into pieces but at least I have these two.

Also I thought I would show you the multi pot of unknown fuchsias that I talked about earlier in the blog and that I made up in March.  I am very pleased with how they are coming along.  They grew so big in the pot that I decided to put them in a large container in the front of the house.  All the flower buds are on them and I'm just waiting for them to burst into colour.
This is it.

Multi pot
Multi pot of unknown fuchsias now in new container
 And to think it started like this:-
Multi pot started in March