fuchsia
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His bubbly companion, a British woman with a fuchsia and white scarf, talked a mile a minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Labour MSPs had their traditional red rose, Reform UK a Scottish heather, the Greens what appeared to be a fuchsia pink gerbera and the Liberal Democrats a mini-mixed bouquet.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
He tried not watering at all, but when he saw the California fuchsia, also called ‘hummingbird fuchsia’ because the birds love it, struggling, he turned the water back on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Onlookers are invited to be mesmerized by the fuchsia flames of Gwi-Ma’s realm as the movie’s hooky synth pop bounces in the foreground.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Eddie planted morning glories to run over the door and Hazel acquired some rather rare fuchsia bushes planted in five-gallon cans which made the entrance formal and a little cluttered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
“Our founders, Evelyn and Bob Weidner, specialized in growing begonias, then fuchsias and impatiens and on from there. We’re a full-service nursery; we also sell fruit trees and vegetables. But our specialty is flowers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Like all California fuchsias, this is a hummingbird magnet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Margelony overwinters his fuchsias in containers in an unheated garage, where the plants stay cool.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023
"Things we'd expect to flower into October, like fuchsias and salvias, are still flowering now and show no signs of stopping," Ms Barker said.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2022
The root-pruning of pot-plants is necessary in the case of many soft-wooded subjects which are grown on year after year—pelargoniums and fuchsias, for example.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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