Fuchsia is a dancer
Dancing on her toes,
Clad in red and purple,
By a cottage wall;
Sometimes in a greenhouse,
In frilly white and rose,
Dressed in her best for the fairies’
evening ball!
From: A Flower Fairy Alphabet, by Cicely Mary Barker
Nalinki at Angles and Views has started #flowersoverflowers where we can share our favourite blossoms of the week. It seems like a good idea to spread some blooms across the Internet. I am more than happy to join in.
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Fuchsia IS a dancer!
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I have loved fuchsias since I was a child, they look like ballerinas.
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Agree!
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Beautiful fuchsias! 🙂
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Great poem; so apt for fuschia twinkle toes! I remember riding the narrow Irish roads between claustrophobic hedges, and it was the profusion of girgeous fuschia that distracted me from my closed-in anxiety.
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Oh yes, I remember the high fuchsia hedgerows in Ireland. Even stopped to take a photo!
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Beautiful, I love them too and my favourite is the really tiny one I have that flowers about 9 months every year!
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I have quite a few different ones, several survived the winter outdoors even though they are not fully hardy. I love the pale dainty ones too, but they are almost impossible to photograph.
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Many pleasures! The poem, the exquisite photograph – and the header.
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Trying out the new camera Meg! Went to photograph some colourful benches I noticed in a pub courtyard and en route to the church (to try out the camera indoors) I saw these beauties. Church posts coming soon.
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Lovely photo.. and I adore Fuchsia’s and your poem suited it so well 🙂
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I thought the sight had driven you to poetry again, Jude! Darn! This is another challenge that I said I’d join in with and haven’t got there. I need to know how you organise your days. I don’t seem to have much control over mine 🙂 I digress! Lovely photo 🙂
Happy travels for tomorrow! Hoping you get enough nice weather to get out and about and keeping my fingers crossed on the home front. Sending hugs 🙂
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I was going to write my own poem then found this and thought, that’s just right! Travels tomorrow so M25 behave yourself! Today I am going to make a start on OH’s tax return. Been putting it off, but it could get busy in September 😀
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Oooh- sounds promising! I do hope so. Will expect cracking good news when I get back from Tavira. 🙂
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fingers crossed xx
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I tried growing fuschias once with dismal results but I’m tempted to try again. You’ve inspired me!
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I have only ever had a problem with one fuchsia and that was planted on the north side (south for you) of my house in very poor sandy dry soil. After 3 years of it not doing much in the way of growth or flowers I moved it away from the house wall and only about a foot away, and threatened it with the compost heap if it didn’t flower. I ended up with an enormous shrub that flowered from spring to Christmas! I took loads of cuttings from that plant too 🙂
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Lovely little ballerinas, I love them and one of Jack’s favourites. He used to take cuttings from bits hanging over neighbours fences and we had lots of them in NZ but sadly I cannot grow them here, so thank you for this lovely photo. Your new camera is doing very well.
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Thanks Pauline, I take cuttings too with a high success rate. I love fuchsias. How’s Jack? Hope he is recovering well.
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Jack is going for a cortisone injection for the inflammation this morning. Lucky it is just tendons and not broken bones.
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Cortisone injections are not pleasant, but I hope it works. Sounds as though his shoulder is very sore. I suffer from Achilles tendonitis and that can be agony if I walk too far and for too long. I wish him well.
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Thanks Jude, he had the injections about4 hours ago and the shoulder is feeling better. Now I have to keep reminding him it is still damaged…
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Yes, he needs to rest it and not put any strain on it, otherwise he’ll cause further damage. So no painting ceilings for a while 😀
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I keep telling him, but he can (and at the moment is) still wash the dishes… I’m a hard task master…
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