This week’s lost fuchsia is ‘Emily Doel‘, which was introduced in 1882 and we are hoping that our fuchsia detectives will help us to find more information about this historic cultivar. Does anyone know who Emily Doel was?
This cultivar sometimes appears as ‘Emily Doels’, we suspect that this is the same cultivar and a typographical error, but we need evidence to prove this. Are you able to help solve this?
This week’s lost fuchsia is ‘Royal Standard’, which was introduced in 1877 and we are hoping that our fuchsia detectives will help us to find more information about this historic cultivar.
This week’s lost fuchsia is ‘Jane Lye’, which was introduced in 1870 and we are hoping that our fuchsia detectives will help us to find more information about this historic cultivar.
This weeks lost fuchsia is ‘Miss Welch’, which was introduced around 1885.
We know very little about this cultivar, to our knowledge there appears to be only one description of this cultivar and no known images.
The Wiltshire Life magazine has covered our hunt for James Lye’s lost fuchsias in their Home and Gardens Supplement, which is issued with the May edition of Wiltshire Life.
Today’s lost fuchsia is ‘Duchess of Fife’, which was introduced in 1892.
We know very little about this cultivar and are hoping that our fuchsia detectives will help us to find more information about this historic cultivar.
Today’s lost fuchsia is ‘Crimson Globe’, which was introduced in 1879 (Though we suspect that it may have been introduced slightly earlier).
Today’s lost fuchsia is ‘Lousia Balfour’, we do not know when she was introduced and at present have a limited description of her.
We understand that this fuchsia was named after Louisa Balfour who was born in 1852 in Darjeeling, India. Daughter of George G. and Juliana G. Balfour.
We believe that this fuchsia is named after Walter Hume Long, who was born in Bath in 1854, and married Lady Dorothy (Doreen) Blanche, daughter of Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork, in 1878. Walter died in 1924 at Rood Ashton House in Wiltshire.
C. N. May (Charles Neale May, born in Reading). Mr May was instrumental in resurrecting the Devizes Flower Show, in 1880 (Devizes Horticultural Society). In 1882 the show was held on the 7th August at Roundway Park, the residence of C. E. Colston, Esq.
