I'm a fuchsia geek.

DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

I love fuchsia too. Ireland was the first place I saw them. They're beautiful.

I'm looking at hybridizing a heat resistant variety and naming it "OldAmericanCentury"

way jealous. we're a month out from fuscia here in MI; but of course you did have snow way after us too.

summer time & the living is easy....

Awesome Fushia's TJ.
I wouldn't have pictured a city street brawler as being a plant person.
It pleases me that you are!




Anyway, the food/shade Tree.
It's a baby Apple Tree. The Variety is "Pink Lady".








And while I was out there with the camera,
I noticed one of the Rhododendrons had popped open the seasons first bloom.
Two more right behind it will be open tomorrow.



Rhodies are cool. They grow wild out in nature around here, though not terribly plentiful.
Once they get established it's almost impossible to kill um.
The only real draw back, is once they bloom they will continue to bloom for a while,
until it rains. Around here, Rain in May is pretty much a done deal.

Oh well, ya takes what ya gets.


Each season has it's perticular qualities.
The awesomeness of spring is quite obvious.

My apple tree burned up and died. It was only about 3 ft tall anyway, came with my house, but it had blooms and then just got crisped, like you'd stuck it in a convection oven. It got hot very early this year. It hit 90 on March 30.

TJ, a heat-resistant fuchsia would be great. I keep mine indoors.

The Dollar Princess fuchsia is probably the most heat resistant. Ours hang on the east side of the house from the porch, so it only gets direct sun for about an hour or two in the early morning.

How well does yours do indoors? I haven't tried keeping any in the house, yet.

Last year was the first year I had one. It died before winter arrived, but did well until then. Here's the room I hung it in. There's plenty of light, although the room is north facing. The ceiling in there is done with the sort of perforated stuff they normally put under eaves, so the room doesn't stay as cool as the rest of the house.

It won't let me do an IMG tag, so here's the link to the picture.

I would think it would be happy in there.

I wonder if, during the winter time if you had let it go dormant, if it would have popped back in the spring. It's hard to do, but if you time it right, you can put it somewhere where it gets no light and stop watering it and then bring it back out in the spring, it's supposed to come back to life. Mine didn't, though. But that's what "they" say. Or you can bury it under a pile of leaves for over-wintering. I haven't tried that either. I'm not sure what I'm going to do until fall. I'll worry about it then.

I like to pop them.

I like Calla Lillies.

Nobody laughed at my geeky Triffids joke.

I didn't get it, but if it makes you feel better, for some reason I can't explain, I'd like to have sex with that flower in the picture you posted. It's kinda seductive.

It's a book, written by John Wyndam.

Check it out, it's one of my favourites.

Tj, You really, really, really, really need to use that little filter in your head that keeps just anything from coming out.

I love my passionvine! This is last years, in a new flowerbed.


close up passifloras (both kinds)




and here's another view of that new flowerbed....

Very cool Tapper.

Anybody else got spring happening in yer yard?

Lefty's way saner than I am, I was just gonna tell him to check for bees first!

that'd be a flower of a hummer bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

So, after 3 beers, what else will the boss wanna have sex with?

first the pics were too small, now too big. fuggin fotobukkit! I'll get the hang of it eventually.

I want more flower pictures...c'mon someone post more!

If anybody wants to see tons of pics of the flowers near my place in Japan, send me a PM with your email in it. I'll invite you to see my snapfish albums. Tons of great Japanese flora and fauna to check out.

Nice...went thru the flora & fauna album. Cool twisty trees & beautiful flowers. There are no people anywhere in that park-like setting that day...kinda weird. Thanks!

Lefty:


That thing's been broken for a long long time.

Tapper:


That's very cool.

Sky


My wife reads this, so that will have to go unanswered.

if you two want, we can mail ya a couple roots when they start coming up. They'd be perennial there too.

yeah, that'd be great!

Tapper, what you're calling passionvine, we call Maypops. Because the fruit goes 'pop' when you squish it. It grows wild here.

This says you can eat the fruit. I had no idea.

Ping, yes, thats its common name! Passiflora, or passionvine are also its named. Do you only get the lighter, hardier version, or the darker tropical one?

OK Poac, I'll let ya know

Yes, Passionfruit. Often used for drinks. Yum

Tapper, I think I've only seen the lighter one. I think of it as a weed, and hadn't paid it much mind.

Max, oh, duh, I feel dumb now. I hadn't realized that was the *same* thing....

Christ, how can anything with prolific 5-6" blooms that pretty be a weed? Its beautiful!
It covers my fence with flowers for 3 months, nonstop!

Ralph Waldo Emerson-
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

That's how.