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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 1d

The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚

Paperback editions of A Natural History of Empty Lots in a box

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 9h

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Nerine bowdenii 'Isabel', a beautiful bulb from South Africa.

Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 16h

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Cardinal’ is another classic American cultivar released by Evans & Reeves Nurseries of Los Angeles in 1938. It has long internodes & likes to spread its shoulders wide so give it room. Also hardy in the usual places many fuchsias are hardy.

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 1d

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Tricyrtis formosana ‘Dark Beauty’ and Fuchsia ‘Chickadee’.

Tricyrtis formosana ‘Dark Beauty’ and Fuchsia ‘Chickadee’. #gardening

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 3d

What’s flowering at The Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ’Ravenslaw’. Not to be confused with the Four Houses of Hogwarts, this “law” is Old English & means a hill, (burial) mound, or tumulus of stones. I can see a flock of flamboyant red ravens assembling on the hill laying some giddy plot or induction serious.

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 4d

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ’Magic Lanterns’, a very floriferous & hot-sun tolerant hardy.

(As far as I can ascertain it was bred and/or marketed by New World Plants Ltd of South Yorkshire UK. It’s not been properly registered with the AFS and I don’t know when it was introduced.)

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 6d

It’s here! The Fuchsietum will soon have its own weather station. Once I figure out how to assemble and set it up. 🤣

Weather station to be assembled. #gardening

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 13d

Majestically reigning over Cape Town, Table Mountain alone is said to contain more different species than all of native Great Britain combined. More to come after I get home. 2/2

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 13d

Totsiens, Kapstad! Starting on the long trek home to the PNW this morning as our glorious adventures in one of the world’s most richest floral kingdoms comes to an end. The diversity of plants we saw just in Namaqualand and the Karoo has been amazing. 1/2

#CapeTown viewed from #TableMountain. #SouthAfrica

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Vernal Equinox! It’s not every year you get to enjoy spring twice. Been on a “plant safari” in Namaqualand in South Africa. I’ll post excerpts of our South African adventures when I get back home but here’s Gladiolus alatus for you in the meantime!

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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is awesome...Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump

Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump

Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, set to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 31

The proper spelling of the cultivar is actually ‘Nicis Findling’ as German doesn’t use apostrophes in possessives. I will generally add it in English text, though, to avoid confusion. “Findling” works in both languages. 2/2

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 31

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Nici’s Findling’. This was a random seedling found by Nici Hermann, daughter of German fuchsia-hybridizer Ermel Hermann who released it in 1985. 1/2

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 31

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘DebRon’s Stella Mae’. Planted out even though it’s got a trailing habit just to see how it would grow in the ground. Definitely needs staking if I decide to leave it. It’s also rated as tender so we’ll see about that as well.

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 23

….Franklinia alatamaha x Gordonia lasianthus, developed by the Dept of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University in 2003. It’s a large shrub or multi-stemmed small tree that might get to about 20 ft (6 m). Fall flowering, it also colors up well in that season. 2/2

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 23

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Some distant white flowers caught a bit of attention when I was watering in the cool dawn yesterday. It’s x Gordlinia grandiflora, an intergeneric hybrid between…. 1/2

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 22

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? And fruiting! Punica granatum ‘Nikitskii Ranii’. It’s a very cold-hardy Ukrainian cultivar from the Nikka Botanical Garden in Crimea. In the US it’s doing business under the supposed “trademark” Crimson Sky.

Punica granatum ‘Nikitskii Ranii’ aka Crimson Sky. #gardening

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 22

Watering this morning in the dawn. While it’s still refreshing cool. It’s 63 F (17 C) and I’m in a sweater. Quite a turnaround later this afternoon. Today’s high is forecast to be 102 F (39 C).

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 19

Of all the plants aspiring to be Fuchsia because of a vague, imagined resemblance, California fuchsias are certainly the most legitimate to claim the name. They’re both closely related members of the Evening Primrose Family (Onagraceae). 2/2

Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 19

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Epilobium septentrionale, ‘Select Mattole’ (syn. Zauschneria septentionalis) is native to N Calif. into SW Oregon. Like its congeneric cousin, Epilobium canum, it’s often called a California fuchsia or, sometimes more specifically, the Humboldt County fuchsia. 1/2

Epilobium septentrionale, ‘Select Mattole’ (syn. Zauschneria septentionalis). #gardening

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 15

What's flowering at the Fuchsietum? Begonia boliviensis ‘Bonfire’. It's fairly hardy when planted in a location that stays dry during the winter. Mine is in a raised be that drains well and has overwintered just fine despite our ceaseless winter rains.

Begonia boliviensis ‘Bonfire’. #Gardening

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 15

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Cuphea ‘Kristen’s Delight’ and mine.

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 14

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Cyclamen season is starting up.

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 12

This large-flowered hybrid between (‘Rina Felix’ x ‘Shy Lady’) x ‘Citation’ gets its aubergine charm from ‘Rina Felix’ (F. fulgens ‘Gesneriana’ x F. x colensoi (F. excorticata x F. perscandens) and its flair from ‘Citation’. 2/2

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Fuchsiarius | R. Theo Margelony @fuchsiarius.bsky.social · Aug 12

What’s flowering at the Fuchsietum? Fuchsia ‘Delta’s Groom’ is a 1993 cross from J.C. Vreeke and P. van´t Westeinde of the Netherlands. The prolific pair introduced 36 fuchsias, all prefixed Delta’s, mostly from 1991-1993. 1/2

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