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.
Fuchsia IS a dancer!
I have loved fuchsias since I was a child, they look like ballerinas.
Agree!
Beautiful fuchsias! 🙂
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.
Oh yes, I remember the high fuchsia hedgerows in Ireland. Even stopped to take a photo!
Beautiful, I love them too and my favourite is the really tiny one I have that flowers about 9 months every year!
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.
Many pleasures! The poem, the exquisite photograph – and the header.
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.
Lovely photo.. and I adore Fuchsia’s and your poem suited it so well 🙂
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 🙂
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 😀
Oooh- sounds promising! I do hope so. Will expect cracking good news when I get back from Tavira. 🙂
fingers crossed xx
I tried growing fuschias once with dismal results but I’m tempted to try again. You’ve inspired me!
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 🙂
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.
Thanks Pauline, I take cuttings too with a high success rate. I love fuchsias. How’s Jack? Hope he is recovering well.
Jack is going for a cortisone injection for the inflammation this morning. Lucky it is just tendons and not broken bones.
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.
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…
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 😀
I keep telling him, but he can (and at the moment is) still wash the dishes… I’m a hard task master…