April - June 2008
Table of Contents

3. President's Message

4.Contributions

5.Convention 2008

6. Fuchsia Friends - They Will Be Missed

7. AFS Board Meeting Highlights

8. The Formula of Pinching

9. Poem - Growing Fuchsias

10. Taking The Heat

11. Fuchsia's in Sacramento

12. History, Fuchsia Society, America

14. Mail Order - Fuchsia Nurseries

15. Monniers Country Gardens

16. Salem Branch 2007 Annual Show

18. Fuchsia Problem - Response

20. Did You Know?

21. Who was Number One?

22. International Fuchsia Registry 2008

23. AFS Registration Team

24. The 2008 Hybridizer List

27. Northwest Hybridizers

28. New 2008 Introductions

51. American Fuchsia Society Website

52. Branch Directory

23. 2008 Branch Officers

55. Branch Programs
Branch Special Events



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FUCHSIAS IN SACRAMENTO
Submitted by Debbie Ferris

During the summers of 2006 and 2007 the Sacramento area experienced 100+ degree temperatures for several days. The Sacramento Branch members put together a list of fuchsias they grow that did fairly well during our hot summer months. ‘Angel’s Earrings’, ‘Autumnale’, ‘Baby Blue Eyes’, ‘Barbara’, ‘Blue Satin Improved’, ‘Caledonia’,’Cardinal’, ‘Celia Smedley’, ‘Curtain Call’, ‘Dainty Angel’s Earrings’, ‘Display’, ‘Dynamic’, ‘First Love’, ‘Galaxy’, ‘Gartenmeister Bonstedt’, ‘Jack Shehan’, ‘Jim Fairclo’, ‘Lena’, ‘Lord Byron’, ‘F.magellanica’, ‘Marinka’, ‘Orange Drops’, ‘Monterey Pacifi ca’, ‘Pink Rain’, ‘Quaser’, ‘Raymond McGowen’, ‘Red Spider’, ‘Sacramento Bells’, ‘Sacramento Rose’, ‘Santa Cruz’, ‘Strawberry Delight’, ‘Swingtime’, ‘WALZ Jubelteen’, and ‘Winston Churchill’.