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the article 'Certified fuchsias a fact' was placed in 'Fuchsiana', the official organ of
the Dutch Fuchsia Society NKvF [1]. René Farenhout answers in that article the question
'how many protected varietes are there now' as follows: |
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' If I assert that the number of protected cultivars is
closer to 50 than to 25, most fuchsialovers looked at me unbelieving. And still it is
true, the last years professional improvement has not been idle. Special from Japan and
Germany there come new cultivars protected with growers patent". Surfing along
fuchsia websites, I registered in the meantime more than 20 novices, protected by one form
of growers patent. In the meanwhile has that number in the begin of 2003 doubled. |
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| According to the author of named article certifying from a plant is
nothing more than an inspection report about the most occuring pests (also virus diseases
and bacteria) and the thoroughbred of a breed. From the beginning the plants are followed
by an inspection department. Growing up in the nursery-area Boskoop (Holland) I saw there
how large and labour-intensief the testing grounds with new cross-breedings are, forthat
finely after years producing one or some valuable new roses or azaleas. For a
consideration of some twopences for each enlarged cutting by he who get permission to
insert the certified in the nurseryprogram, the investments must be earnt back
again.
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| Sunangels
® 'Aloha' - Flower: S red, C dark-purple. Plant: compact trailer. |
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For the owner of the breedingpatent it is even paying to trace
plantations from transgressors from out of the air by helicopter flights. If the process
of certifying of the easier breeding fuchsia also requires such high investments, I did
n't know. When I had read the article in 'Fuchsiana' the question rised by me : 'Why you
should bring certified fuchsias on market? Now there is allready a choice out of some
thousands and often attractive cultivars, to which a certified fuchsia would satisfy still
additonal?' |
| Special colour |
| In first instance it would be worthy an extra investment for a fuchsia in
a special colour, for example yellow. Here it is than attractive that an other
professional or hobby improver the fuchsia with yellow flowers may not use for realising
new cross-breedings with a variant colour yellow of the flower. By fuchsias that is
simply to realise, is n't it? For example, notice the quick 'growth' from fuchsias with
colour aubergine after bringing out the first fuchsia in this new colour (I mean it was
'Foolke'). And so the yellow fuchsia remains unique and by that in commercial view
attractive for the owner of the growers patent. Searching the internet I did n't found a
certified fuchsias which added a real new colour to the large choice number of fuchsias. |
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Unfeeling for pests and diseases |
| This quality of a certified fuchsia would make buying such a plant
attractive to many fuchsialovers. On the testing ground Ned-H3 winter hardy's in
Velp, especially the cultivars that arised from a cross-breeding with F.regia, are evident
nearly resistent for pests and diseases. Via this cross-breedings way the research group
set up cross-breedings on this testing ground with possible qualities: 'hardiness',
'unfeeling for pests diseases' and 'more colourvariety in Ned-H3 hardys'. Unfortunately
this initiative must been stopped in order of the UTC-crossbreeding group. |
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Sunangels
® 'Hello' - Flower; more long and more narrow as 'Aloha' |
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| Searching the internet I found no new registered cultivars, which are
recommended as 'super resistent for pests and diseases'. |
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Heat tolerant |
In The Netherlands investments for heat tolerant fuchsias are not
meaningful. On the very sunny site of the testing ground in Velp the cultivars with Ned-H3
statue weathered heat very good and that without or with minimum giving water. In a long
hot and dry period they flower than bat, but this bettered considerable by rising the
humidity of air by spirting misty water under the plants.
And just the quality 'heat tolerant' as the starting point has been evident by a number of
registered new cultivars. So the Dutch nursery Moerheim has for Europe the distribution of
two registered Japanese fuchsias: SUNANGELS® var.'Aloha' and SUNANGELS®
var.'Hello'.
On the site of this nursery [2] we read among other things the following: 'What would
still been bettered at fuchsias! Suntory (see about this firm the cadre 'Whiskey and
fuchsias') has yet examined this group of plants and forced a break-through in heat
tolerant. It was normal you could breed fuchsias only in half-shadow, with the new
assortment Sun Angels® you now can place this plants full in the sun and even on the
hotest site of the garden. The plants then meet no damage of it. They will flower rich the
whole summer till late in the autumn. And they are also suitable for planting out in
the borders of parks and public gardens'.
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| All-American fuchsia |
| Well!
It's finally - after 60+ years we have the first truly all-American fuchsia', so
begins on the website of the American Fuchsia Society the author Barney Gonsalves his
article 'The First All-American Fuchsia' [3]. In that article you read that fuchsias
especially can grow and flower in the USA without problems in coastal California.
But in the more hot and humidity climat of Central Valleys with temperatures often above
90°F there is only a limited number of hybrids capable for planting: the 'Heat tolerant
fuchsias'. It is
remarkable that in the list 'Heat tolerant fuchsias' from the 120 well heat tolerant
Ned-H3 hardy's only is named 'Mephisto', 'Abbé Farges' and 'Heron'. |
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Sunangels
® 'Angels Earrings' |
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| That 'first truly all-American fuchsia' is evident to be a registered
SUNANGELS® fuchsia and has the name 'Angels Earrings'. Barney has 90 of
this cultivar tryed out in 1998 on a location in 'Wild Animal Park garden'. That year it
was there very hot and humidity. At the end of the summer the plants were 4' wide and 6'
long; all the year they were flowering. He allways try to find out what are the
crossing-parents. According to him are that two Brazilian species, which in that country
grow in a hot and humidity climat. In the flower he thinks to see distinguishing marks
from the supposed used species F.glazioviana. The single red and purple
flower has the normal fuchsia flowerform (see the photo above) and the plant is a
self-branching trailer. |
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Resumé
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It is
clear that a professional improvement used other norms by developing registered fuchsias.
He first critisizes his creation on a luxurious flowering under different weather
circumstances and pay attention to quality aspects as 'unfeeling for pests and
diseases'. While cross-breeders within fuchsia societies pay more attention to novices as
'other colours', 'colour-combinations' or 'flowerforms', the above named SUNANGELS® would
not come through the Dutch VKC-inspection because of the many occuring colour-combination
'red and purple'. And therefor the conclusion will be: special suitable as an
'all-American fuchsia'.
Still an advice to author Barney. Try to enlarge the list 'heat-tolerant fuchsias' by
testing a selection from the about 120 Ned-H3 winter hardy's in 'Wild Animal Park' on the
quality heat-tolerant. From experience we know that in a long hot summer the
varieties Ned-H3's with a small format (such as the hardy's 'Tom Thumb', 'Lady
Thumb', 'Son of Thumb', 'Frau Alice Hoffmann') are less suitable for this. While the
climat in that park is humidity you may expect they also will flowering rich. |
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Whiskey and
fuchsias
On the site
'Moerheim Online' I found information about the Japanese cross-breeding firm
after the SUNANGELS ® fuchsias.
Suntory Ltd., established in 1890, is from origine well-known by its Whiskey. Now
adays Suntory is an international operating concern with establishments in Europe,
USA and China. On this moment head -activities are still allways the commerce in
whiskey. but also commerce in soft drinks. Also restaurants and big-magstores belong to
this concern with about 5000 co-operators.
In 1989 the firm started an garden division, with as principal activity to launch
total new concepts, as well qua plantmaterial as the marketing of it. The Suntory
Flower division has on this moment about 20 co-operators, under that are six
crossbreeders. All their new products - as verbenas and petunias - are patented and only
some major distributors may put them on the market . For Europe is the major distributor
the firm Moerheim New Plant bv Holland. |
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| Sources: |
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'Certificering van fuchsia een feit' - René Farenhout - NKvf Society Magazine
'Fuchsiana', June 1999 |
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'Gelderse Fuchsia Info-site'-
November 2008 |
