A Photo a Week Challenge: Favorite Color in Nature
My hunky husband waters the plants. It’s part of the joy of summer. And the rich purple and red of the fuchsia. Fuchsia is such a rich color, it has become a color of its own.
As the season reaches its peak, the fuchsia begin to grow long, with trailing branches dropping past the fence on the deck.
I see fewer new blossoms, fewer buds, but more seed pods. It is high summer for us, but rounding the corner to the end of the season for fuchsia.
The pictures were taken using the Olympus PEN PL-6 with an f2.8 60 mm macro lens or the Pentax Q7 using an f1.8 8.5 mm prime “normal.”
Trailing fuchsia in July (Pentax Q7)
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Gorgeous colours. Love that one of Garry watering the plants.
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I love the one of Garry watering the plants too. It’s one of the best views of summer.
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I bet.
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😀
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So beautiful, Marilyn. Thanks for joining the challenge!
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You are welcome! Thank you for making this fun challenge available 🙂
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I would love to grow them in my garden though I am not sure about the temperature and soil issues.
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Fuchsia is a trailing vine, so I think you need to grow it in hanging pots.
Otherwise, it likes shade — a bit of sun, bu not too hot — and plenty of water. If you have a bright, shady patio or deck or porch, that’s perfect. Soil not so important. It’ll grow in any earth, if the rest of the conditions are right. You might get them to flower all year in that climate.
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Thanks for the tips to grow these attractive flowers. I will visit near by nursery soon.
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Gorgeous; they look like silk purses 🙂
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Like little silk purses for fairies … or cups from which hummingbirds can drink (they do) … There is something magical about them and I’m glad I have the right conditions to grow them 🙂
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They are amazing plants- both is color and the beauty of the buds and flowers
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Elegant. Fairy-like. They always remind me of hammocks and lemonade and long, lazy afternoons when we were younger and freer.
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Beautiful!
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Yes, he is, rather 🏆
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I so miss fushia’s It is to hot to grow them where I live.
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This is the only place where I have had the right conditions for fuchsia. It is quite picky about growing conditions. On the other hand, my deck is too shady for most plants.
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My fushias did great on the Oregon coast. No sun hardly at all. 🙂
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That’s just what they like. Lots of rain, occasional sun, but not too strong. They’ll grow like mad in that climate, I’m sure. And have a much longer growing season, too.
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Hi Marilyn
I live in a much dryer and hotter climate now. Not a good enviro for https://widgets.wp.com/notifications/1945430203#fuchsia. Buy there are many other plant and flowers that grow well here.
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I’ve lived a lot of places, but this is the first where I’ve successfully grown fuchsia. Everywhere else was too sunny and/or hot.
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Yep! That cool and damp climate is heaven to a fuchsia! 🙂
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Not so cool … but shady and definitely damp.
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Ah, yes indeed. Well have a great day Marilyn. I am out the door 4 the day. 🙂 Ty for the chat!
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How beautiful against the cool green of the trees. Your surroundings look idyllic.
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I love fuchsia–and never remember how to spell the word!!!
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If it weren’t for spell checkers, I’d never get anything right! I love my fuchsia. This is the time of year when I become aware that they are doomed to die at the end of the season. Makes me sad.
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I guess that’s also what makes us appreciate things–the fact that we know they will end.
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Down where you live, if you had a shady, not-so-hot place to hang a couple of pots, you might be able to nurse them through the off season. They need a LOT of watering. Daily when it’s hot. They need filtered sunlight. They burn up in direct sun. But if you can give them those two things, they can keep going. They won’t survive indoors, though. Maybe in a hothouse, but no one I know has grown them in a regular house.
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