Exotic Beauty (15) : Fuchsia
The past 2 years I made several visits to the conservatories of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium where 10.000 (!) plant and tree species originating from the tropics and the subtropics are growing in the greenhouses over there.
Thanks to the warm and moist climate in the conservatories and the intensive maintenance, it’s really amazing what an immense great variety of exotic flowers from all over the world can be seen there, even in the cold winter season !
Flowers whose natural habitat is situated in the rainforest, the mountain forest, isolated islands, deserts, etc……. Places that most of us will never or seldom visit.
Some of the flowers are very rare, extremely colourful or specially shaped.
Others were introduced in Europe by men and became a cultivated species or ornamental houseplant.
I selected the –to my personal taste- most beautiful flowers that I saw there and made a series of them.
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Dutch name : Fuchsia
German name : Fuchsien
Latin name : Fuchsia giganteum
Country of origin : mountain forest South America
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I guess everybody knows Fuchsias as popular garden plants nowadays.
The flowers of this ‘giganteum’ species in the picture, are about 16cm long !
Sally Dunn 19/06/2010 19:03
They are very nice with the pale pink and lilac combination. They are such delicate flowers and it is a very pretty picture Mark.Regards
Sally
Linda Herbert 10/02/2010 3:29
Beautiful images.I'm so glad you stopped by. Now I can really see more amazng photography. BW LindaMohr Wilfried 09/02/2010 14:00
Eine ganz hervorragende Aufnahme der Fuchsien.Gruß Wilfried
Deryck 08/02/2010 20:44
Wow! Fantastic shot of these rare Fuchsias. Well captured tooDeryck
Josef Kainz 08/02/2010 17:37
Eine sehr schöne Aufnahme gefällt mir sehr gutlg. josef
CsomorLászló 08/02/2010 14:38
Sehr schön,excellent dof!
lg
CsL
Jojo. 08/02/2010 9:25
Excellente image de qualité!Bisous
Jojo
† Ushie Farkas 07/02/2010 22:33
I love your Serie, Mark! It´s WONDERFUL !!! Salut UshieVitória Castelo Santos 07/02/2010 21:04
Wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!greetings
Vitoria
Ryszard Basta 07/02/2010 20:36
wunderbarBernd Brügging 07/02/2010 18:24
Der Frühling lässt grüßen. Klasse Aufnahme mit herrlichen Farben und anmutender Schönheit. Besser geht es nicht mehr !!!HG
Bernd
Jan Rillich 07/02/2010 17:35
nice FlowerJan
Angelika El. 07/02/2010 16:47
Ein Traum sind diese Fuchsien!!! Und wenn man sich vorstellt, dass die Blüten so riesig sind, wie Du schreibst - dann muß es ganz beeidnruckend sein, vor ihnen zu stehen!!! Mag Fuchsien und ich mag Deine Aufnahme!!
LG!
Angelika
Angelika Ritter 07/02/2010 16:21
fantastic shot.the colours are so warm..
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lg angie
Marlies W. 07/02/2010 15:09
Da wird eine traumhafte Blüte mit einer wunderbaren Aufnahme verbunden. Fantastische Arbeit.LG Marlies