I have had a love for fuchsia from a young boy helping my granmother deadhead using them in and around the garden in pots and tubs i never dreamed one could bonsai these adorable little plants .i saw some fuchsia bonsai's and they rekindled my passion for fuchsia's again but to use them in a diffirent way as bonsai.

HISTORY OF FUCHSIAS PART 1 OF 3

LEONHART FUCHS WAS BORN IN 1501.HE OCCUPIED THE CHAIR OF MEDICINE AT THE TUBINGEN UNIVERSITY FROM THE AGE OF 34 UNTIL HIS DEATH,ON 10TH MAY 1566.BESIDES HIS MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE WHICH WAS JUDGE FROM THE RECORDOF HIS ACTIVITIES WAS EXTENSIVE FOR TIMES,HE STUDIED PLANTS.THIS WAS THE PERFECTLY NATURAL BECAUSE ALL THE REMEDIES EXISTING AT THE TIME WERE HERBAL AND THE TWO SUBJECTS THEREFORE RAN SIDE BY SIDE.

IN THE COURSE OF HIS CAREER FUCHS WROTE DE HISTORIA STRIPIUM WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1542 AND THOUGH IT DEALT WITH PLANTS FROM THE HERBAL POINT OF VEIW IT DIGRESSED FREQUENTLY TO EXPOUND ON THEIR OTHER BEAUTIES,AND IN THE FOLLOWING WORDS,TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN BY DR AGNESARBERG , HE COMMENDS ALL WHO LOVE PLANTS TO STUDY THEM MORE FULLY:

IT IS IN MEMORY OF FUCHS THAT THE FUCHSIA RECEIVED ITS NAME.THIS NAME WAS APPARENTLY GIVEN SOME TIME SHORTLY BEFORE 1703 BY P.CAROLE PLUMIER.IT WAS PLUMIER WHO COMPILED HIS NOVA PLANTARUM AMERICANUM,WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN PARISIN 1703 BASED ON THE RESULTS OF HIS PLANT -FINDING TRIP TO THE AMERICA IN SEARCH OF  NEW GENERA.THERE IS CONSIDERABLE CONFUSION AS TO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FUCHSIA BETWEEN 1703 AND 1793 WHEN IT IS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN IN ENGLAND.IT IS FAIRLY REASONABLE TO SUPPOSE,HOWEVER THAT PLUMIER TOOK HOME SOME SEEDS WITH HIM OF THE SPECIES HE DISCOVERED NAMELY FUCHSIA TRIPHYLLA FLORE COCCINEA AND THAT THEY WERE GROWN IN FRANCE.THIS TOO MAY ACCOUNT FOR THE REFERENCE TO IT UNDER THE NAMES THILES IN THE JOURNALS DES OBSERVATIONS BOTANIQUES IN 1725.THILES WAS THE NAME BY WHICH THE PLANT WAS KNOWN IN SOUTHERN CHILE WHERE, IT IS TO BE PRESUMED,PLUMIER DISCOVERED IT .

MY FIRST FUCHSIA BONSAI/30CM BRUTUS.05

Topiaryjoe/London

Congratulations,

Brutus is not the easiest of fuchsias to train as a bonsai. You're doing a grand job with this one :-)

Kath
UK - Zone 8

"Patience is a virtue"