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Post by meandog on Oct 17, 2006 7:30:45 GMT 12
![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png) I use to propagate them I had over 60 different varieties so if there is any question ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) that need answering please feel free to ask and I will try to help. I also have heaps of colour pics of named varieties so if you have a fuchsia and do not know the name put up a pic and I will endeavour to try and identify it for you.
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Post by ivyplus on Oct 17, 2006 10:59:31 GMT 12
Hy meandog! you are surprising me! Who would of thought you are into fuschias! I love them and Oasis doesn't. Unfortunately the last one we had was at the wrong spot and grew into the house. "He" is now in Fuschia heaven! But I most certainly want to get more. Oasis thinks they are very unorganised shrubby plants (I guess like himself! ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) )
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Post by meandog on Oct 17, 2006 12:21:13 GMT 12
Fuchsias can be beautiful shrubs with some care, pruning is the secret and removing the seed capsules. This encourages more flowers. With the young shoots nip the tips out after about four leaves this produces side shoots which can also be nipped after about four leaves. The secret is the more new growth that is encouraged the more flower you would receive. There is some varieties that make very nice standards.some more suited as climbers,some shrubs etc. When you see large hanging baskets in the plant centres covered in bloom this is how its done plenty of pruning. People buy these baskets and after a few weeks they start to look drab as they are not instructed to prune. I hope this makes some sense if not lets know and I will have another go after some HBrew.LOL
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Post by Manukarose on Oct 17, 2006 14:22:22 GMT 12
Fuschias are gorgeous I have many different types here, some tiny ones and some large ruffled ones ... one of my most favourite flower to draw.
Goodness me Meandog, you do surprise me, next you will be setting up a knitting thread!
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Post by Manukarose on Oct 17, 2006 14:22:43 GMT 12
PS: You surprise me in a GOOD way! haha.
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Post by ivyplus on Oct 17, 2006 17:27:43 GMT 12
I have told a friend today that there is a fuschia thread on YOP. He told me you can eat the seedbuds. Is that true?
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Post by meandog on Oct 17, 2006 18:26:38 GMT 12
Yes all parts are edible. I have fuchsia jam recipes somewhere using the seed berries. There was never any commercial gain in this avenue. The reason being you needed plenty of flowers for seed berries, but to get them to flower profusely you needed to remove the seed berries while green. I do have an article somewhere stating many years ago in the late 1800s they sold fuchsia berries by the lb on the wharves in Auckland for I think about 1/3d a lb.. Crazy eh? Incidently we have fuchsias that are natives to NZ.
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Post by meandog on Oct 17, 2006 18:28:30 GMT 12
Manukarose I think we will leave the knitting thread to you, and although I have done a lot of macrame in the past I will give you the pleasure of that thread as well.LOL
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Post by ivyplus on Oct 17, 2006 18:30:13 GMT 12
Yes all parts are edible. I have fuschia jam recipes somewhere using the seed berries. There was never any commercial gain in this avenue. The reason being you needed plenty of flowers for seed berries, but to get them to flower profusely you needed to remove the seed berries while green. I do have an article somewhere stating many years ago in the late 1800s they sold fuschia berries by the lb on the wharves in Auckland for I think about 1/3d a lb.. Crazy eh? Incidently we have fuschias that are natives to NZ. Thanks meandog! I enjoy posts like that! If you come across the recipe for the jam I would be very interested and I will grow fuschias again (actually because of this fuschia post!) ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by meandog on Oct 17, 2006 18:35:40 GMT 12
Good but don't get offside with 'oh he that has to be obeyed' LMAO
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Post by ivyplus on Oct 17, 2006 18:38:54 GMT 12
Good but don't get offside with 'oh he that has to be obeyed' LMAO I will grow it all over the place! I have a good point now "It's edible!"
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Post by meandog on Oct 18, 2006 7:25:29 GMT 12
Kotukutuku : Fuchsia excorticata or tree fuchsia is one of the few native trees that is almost completely deciduous, particularly in the South Island. when the fuchsia is bare in the winter, the distinctive pinkish tone of the trunks and branches and the peeling papery bark is conspicuous. The native fuchsia may reach a height of 10-12 metres although on exposed hillsides it is much shorter. The leaves are very soft with pale undersides, the flowers although inconspicuous, are quite brightly coloured especially when the anthers shed their extraordinary blue pollen. The fruits are large succulent purple berries. The tree fuchsia is found throughout NZ from sea level to the upper limit of the forest and is a plant of bushmargins and streamsides. It is now one of the commonest trees forming a hedge where roads have been cut through bush areas.
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Post by meandog on Oct 18, 2006 7:44:51 GMT 12
Fuchsia procumbens : Is also a native, ground cover with roundish leaves and flowers are 1-2 cms long and the bright pinkish-red beries are 2 cm long. Widely cultivated but becoming rare in the wild of the North Island. Used a lot in containers in shopping malls etc.
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Post by ivyplus on Oct 18, 2006 7:45:34 GMT 12
Kotukutuku : Fuchsia excorticata or tree fuchsia is one of the few native trees that is almost completely deciduous, particularly in the South Island. when the fuchsia is bare in the winter, the distinctive pinkish tone of the trunks and branches and the peeling papery bark is conspicuous. The native fuchsia may reach a height of 10-12 metres although on exposed hillsides it is much shorter. The leaves are very soft with pale undersides, the flowers although inconspicuous, are quite brightly coloured especially when the anthers shed their extraordinary blue pollen. The fruits are large succulent purple berries. The tree fuchsia is found throughout NZ from sea level to the upper limit of the forest and is a plant of bushmargins and streamsides. It is now one of the commonest trees forming a hedge where roads have been cut through bush areas. What an interesting tree. I just went into google and found this statement as well: In some flowers (those with both male and female parts) the pollen is blue. The flowers can also be just female. It also says: Kotukutuku provides food (fruit, nectar, foliage) and habitat for birds and insects. And I just called the nursery and they will try to get one for me. (I think I should do something good for NZs fauna and flora since I was told off yesterday about Joey!!!!!) ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by meandog on Oct 18, 2006 7:50:07 GMT 12
Fuchsia perscandens is also a climber found in the Feilding to Malvern Hills areas.Sparingly branched. Leaves distant, broad-ovate to suborbicular. Flowers 1 cm long, solitary.Berry usually dark purple.
The Maori name for the berry is Konini. Which is what I call my house.
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Post by ivyplus on Oct 18, 2006 7:51:32 GMT 12
Fuchsia procumbens : Is also a native, ground cover with roundish leaves and flowers are 1-2 cms long and the bright pinkish-red beries are 2 cm long. Widely cultivated but becoming rare in the wild of the North Island. Used a lot in containers in shopping malls etc. Stop it, that's enough!!! I just had to order one of them too! ;D What an interesting ground cover. Gardening and homebrewing are my passions!
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Post by meandog on Oct 18, 2006 7:53:43 GMT 12
One can see Konini wine coming up. LMAO
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Post by ivyplus on Oct 18, 2006 7:55:50 GMT 12
One can see Konini wine coming up. LMAO Yes, most certainly!!!
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Post by meandog on Oct 18, 2006 7:56:45 GMT 12
Oh dear! What a SIN I have misspelt Fuchsia in the heading of this thread is it possible to have that rectified please. Before Manukarose finds it.LOL
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Post by OasisNZ on Oct 18, 2006 8:32:36 GMT 12
Titles edited ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) Unfortunately fixing the first didn't fix the rest, so each had to be done seperately, LOL ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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