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? READ MORE
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Lost Fuchsia: Royal Standard
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. READ MORE
Lost Fuchsia: Miss Welch
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. READ MORE
Lye’s Fuchsias
The group of Fuchsias an engraving of which appears at fig. 39 (used as this posts image), represents a collection of nine specimens raised and exhibited by that well-known cultivator, Mr. James Lye, of Clyffe Hall Gardens, Market Lavington, at an exhibition held in Bath in September last, and which received the 1st prize in the premier class for that number of plants. READ MORE
James Lye’s Obituary
James Lye. – On Saturday last, at a ripe age, a victim to paralysis, there passed away at Market Lavington, Wilts., a gardener in the person of James Lye, who had the warm esteem and regard of a wide circle of friends, and who had made for himself a good name in horticulture. For very many years he was Gardener at Clyffe Hall, Market Lavington, and there gave his attention largely to the raising and growing of Fuchsias and Potatoes. Whilst the varieties of the latter which he raised have been elbowed out of commerce by newer ones, many of READ MORE