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. Juni 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. Februar 2010, 3:29
Beautiful images.I'm so glad you stopped by. Now I can really see more amazng photography. BW LindaMohr Wilfried 9. Februar 2010, 14:00
Eine ganz hervorragende Aufnahme der Fuchsien.Gruß Wilfried
Deryck 8. Februar 2010, 20:44
Wow! Fantastic shot of these rare Fuchsias. Well captured tooDeryck
Josef Kainz 8. Februar 2010, 17:37
Eine sehr schöne Aufnahme gefällt mir sehr gutlg. josef
CsomorLászló 8. Februar 2010, 14:38
Sehr schön,excellent dof!
lg
CsL
Jojo. 8. Februar 2010, 9:25
Excellente image de qualité!Bisous
Jojo
† Ushie Farkas 7. Februar 2010, 22:33
I love your Serie, Mark! It´s WONDERFUL !!! Salut UshieVitória Castelo Santos 7. Februar 2010, 21:04
Wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!greetings
Vitoria
Ryszard Basta 7. Februar 2010, 20:36
wunderbarBernd Brügging 7. Februar 2010, 18:24
Der Frühling lässt grüßen. Klasse Aufnahme mit herrlichen Farben und anmutender Schönheit. Besser geht es nicht mehr !!!HG
Bernd
Jan Rillich 7. Februar 2010, 17:35
nice FlowerJan
Angelika El. 7. Februar 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 7. Februar 2010, 16:21
fantastic shot.the colours are so warm..
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lg angie
Marlies W. 7. Februar 2010, 15:09
Da wird eine traumhafte Blüte mit einer wunderbaren Aufnahme verbunden. Fantastische Arbeit.LG Marlies