Received Messages

Hi my name is Laetitia van Wyk and I am the secretary/treasures of our fuchsia club. We are in Benoni which is about 35km from Johannesburg, South Africa. We started our club about three years ago with about 10 people. Today our club has grown to ove 50 people. We had our second annual show on the 8th & 9th of December 2001. It was a great successes. One of our judges was George Puddefoot of England (maybe you know him).

I really like your WebPages. It is very professional and looks great. I regularly visit it to get some pictures of flowers or just to see how other clubs run their business. You can be proud of your achievement.

Hi Browsing through your site which I found very good. I belong to the The Sussex Wagtails Club and the BFS, looking at the photo pages they realy stood out. Will be looking out for you in the future. I do know some of the Solent Members but have not come as far to your part of the world. Will be in touch soon.

Just made the first of many trips down the wires to Your site. What a welcome collection o Photos. The layout of the site is an ideal blend of all that is Fuchia and I will be back to see You all soon.

I have recently been connected to the Internet and was delighted to find the Bournemouth and Poole Fuchsia Society web site. I holiday every year in Bournemouth and have many friends in your society and have even attended one of your meetings. I come from Inverness and we have L#### S####### as a judge at our show this year. I am a very good friend of ##### and D#### L#####. We had a very successful first show last year and it was mostly due to D#### who gave us a talk before it and encouraged our members to show. D#### was a very good ambassador for your society and you should all be proud of him and tell him we were all delighted that he got on to the BFS committee. He should really shake them up with D# B### there also. I will close for now if you would like an article for your newsletter or web site anytime just let me know.

Just wanted you to know my URL. I have probably just a small collection, but I couldn't cope with too many more although the odd one sneeks in without hubby knowing!! I'll add a link to your page from mine as well. Signing off, look forward to hearing from you soon.

I was delighted to come across the Bournemouth Fuchsia Society. web page. I found it when looking at the page of the Swedish Fuchsia Society. I have recently started a page for the Metropolitan Essex Fuchsia Society, and am gradually improving it as my HTML expertise improves. I shall include a link to your page at the next up-date.( I have made an entry in the reference section of your page). Do you know if any other local fuchsia societies in the UK have web pages? I think it would be an excellent way of keeping in touch with other societies to exchange news, views etc. I have written to the BFS to suggest some initiative on their part.

I hope we can keep in touch. Meanwhile, best wishes from the MEFS to you and all your members.

I am a commercial greenhouse and I am a member at large of the Pacific Northwest Fuchsia Society.

Hi Jon, Thanks for your comments about my site! I 've changed 'Pool' into 'Poole' now.

I find the Bournemouth and Poole Fuchsia Society Web site also very interesting. Certainly one of the most interesting Fuchsia Society Web sites!

I suggest that you add links to the contents in the newsletters leading to the articles further down on the page. I see also ### instead of names and times. Is that as it should be?

From the webmaster
Regarding the ###'d out names - this is a requirement placed on me by the clubs committee to prevent unsolicited contact with members. Any email received will be passed on to the club membership via the newsletters, and if they want to reply then they have that option.

Fraser Ross told me about your page. He was most complementary. I found the address on Wouter's Web Site. I too am a member of the Northwest Fuchsia Society.

I have a new web site my son and I maintain purely for information and encouragement of novices fuchsia grower primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

Very impressed with the new Web site and looking forward to using it. I have attached an article I wrote on watering for you to use if you wish. If you don't want it just bin it. It may be too big for your newsletter but if not please put it in.

From the webmaster
You can see Frasers Article in the articles section.

Congratulations, just found you. So much information about you and your annual show. Need more time to digest the activities etc.

We, the Reigate & District Fuchsia Society enjoyed, a very successful show on the same day as yourselves. I am a very keen shower and have supported our show's for about 23 years having been show secretary for about twelve of them; just resigned from this position and this year it was a treat to relinquish the responsibility and concentrate on my show plants, about 15 classes entered, took 2 firsts 3 seconds and the rest we don't talk about.

Anyway, best wishes to all your members and may we all look forward to next year and the many activities planned. Best wishes.

I was so pleased to stumble onto your web page. I have always admired Fuchsia's but had no idea just how many varieties there are. I have looked all over for any societies in South Africa, but have not found any on the net. Does anyone know whom I could contact. Most of the advice that I have read seems to concentrate on protecting the plants during the cold winter months which we here don't have.

In the last three weeks I have acquired 27 different varieties and just don't seem to be able to stop myself each time I visit the local nurseries.

I visited your informative site today and would like to exchange links with you I am keen garden enthusiast whose passion has spilled onto the net I have a Software Company called Software Technics and sub-let space on my web site to Specialist Nurseries. I have my own personal site which contains all sorts of garden info and I link the two sites together to form a larger "single" site

My personal passion is fuchsias, primarily standards all of which are currently locked up tight in their greenhouse now with their Paraffin heaters waiting for spring again. I have a new site sponsor called Exotic Fuchsias who use the space to have their catalogue with about 100 pictures of their fuchsias and descriptions of the rest. They will be providing a cultivation guide and I am linked to other Fuchsia enthusiasts whose fuchsia tips and comments are excellent. We get about 40-60 visitors to our pages every day and I would like to exchange links with you as your site has good content and is directly related to our site. I particularly like your member articles.

My name is Terry Davies and I have produced a Web-page for Stuart Lockyer (Fuchsias) at Bristol. I have of course included a link to your society!

Greetings from Salford & Bolton Fuchsia Society to you all at Bournemouth & Poole Fuchsia Society.I have just posted our Web site on the net.It gives an outline of our society, What's on and Fuchsia Tips. Would you like to give us a mention on your Other Web Sites page? I intend to have a links page but haven't done it yet. Do I have to have your permission to enter yours or other sites in a page?

From the webmaster
Normally, we don't mind if you link to our site. However, if you could let us know when you do, we can then keep you updated on any changes that might take place that affect the link, for example a change of URL or a major update of part, or the whole, of the site.

Just to inform you that the Wagtail Book of Fuchsias are available through me as U.K. distributor. Also the Supplements Vols. One Two & Three have been reprinted and now available. numbers limited though. The Publishers are Wagtail Publication Ltd. The wagtail books are available apart from volume 4. Hopefully the sales of the supplements three volumes in all, will pay towards the reprint of Volume 4. The above will be available at the BFS AGM 28th / 29th March 1998.

I am busy preparing my own web site. My own society, of which I am chairman, has allowed the society treasurer and myself to put together a society web page for the net.

From the webmaster
I advise anyone interested in acquiring these books to contact the publishers in their own country. Keith is the UK distributor, and I will pass on any email requests I receive from UK correspondents.

If it is possible, please pass this note on to your chairman.I found your fuchsia site this morning (March 17th) and found it very interesting. Good luck with your fuchsia growing this year.

Hello from Barnsley F.S.to Bournemouth - keep up the good work of spreading the word.

From:

Brian Finbow,
Doncaster, UK

Hi

A very informative site for fuchsia growers like myself. I live in Doncaster and it is nice to see something like your site originating in the UK.

From:

George Foster,
Salford, UK

Found your site today enjoyed it very much, I'm hooked on fuchsias my daughter and I have about 200 species, but we have not joined any clubs as we are only learners, will visit again.

I am a member of the Luton fuchsia society of which we have a varied membership we also put on a show each year in our local town and have an avid following of well deserved growers. I enjoyed scanning your web site and will continue to do so.

Hello, Derek Luther kindly gave me the address of your site. As very much both an amateur Fuchsia enthusiast and an amateur web site developer (I am currently working on getting something up and running), I cannot but be very impressed with both the presentation and content of your Society's site. It will clearly be some years before I can consider myself at all knowledgeable on either front! Thanks for setting the standard.

Just want to let you know how very much I am enjoying your site. Was referred by Derek Luther, one of your members. Am finding information very helpful!

Are there any members within your club who keep and grow the more unusual, species and Encliandra Fuchsias, I am interested mainly with these and am interested to hear from like minded Fuchsia enthusiasts. I enjoyed looking through your website,and will visit regularly.

Just discovered your web site,very interesting,keep it up. If I may be so bold as to suggest that we could see some pictures of the winning cultivars with their names and perhaps some comments from the grower? Wishing you a flourishing membership and continued success especially for the 2000 season.

I have just visited your web site for the first time and would like to tell you how impressed I am at the lay-out and the content of the site. As someone who has been given the task of producing a web site for our local group, I can only think that your site was created by someone with great technical knowledge. Our site is still under construction, and I look forward to the time when our members have provided me with half the content that you have used for your site. You can be sure that I will visit on many occassions for ideas and inspiration and will certainly create a link so that other members can do the same.

If anyone would like to link to our page, please drop our Webmaster a line providing your URL so that we can put your site into our Links Page.

From:	Yoko Kanemoto
Location:	Japan

I was delighted when I found your Web site. More then 20 years ago, I stayed for about two weeks in Poole. I had a great time in your town. Your Web site brings to mind many happy memories with my host family and many other kind people I met there.

And what's more. I'm growing Fuchsia now. It's challenging to grow this attractive plant in Osaka, Japan, where summer temperature reaches 35 degrees or higher. However, if I exercise several growing tips, it survives the harsh season and rewards me with bright flower chandeliers throughout autumn and well into January. My husband likes the plant very much, too.

I would like to learn more about this lovely plant. To do so, and to recall my pleasant memories, may I visit your Web site once in a while?

From:	Lesley Eccleston
Location:	UK

Greetings. I have just found your webpage. Great stuff!! Will try and make your show at the end of July. I think I went to a bpfs July show some years ago. In fact, thinking about it, it must have been at least 20 yrs ago!! It was held in the church hall in Parkstone and I had trouble finding somewhere to park my motor cycle. Well, the bikes gone now but the love of fuchsias hasn't.

From:	Chris Finlay
Location:	Dorset (UK).

I was delighted to find your site. I did join your B&P Society several years ago. I hope to come along as a visitor to the meeting this month and also attend the show in a couple of weeks. As a computer 'nerd' I am most impressed by the professionalism of your site - easier to move round than some produced by the IBMs of life ( more fun and prettier too !)