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Welcome to Fuchsia Land!Hello! I'm pleased to meet you. Welcome to Fuchsialand! My name is Alfie Geeson and I live in the small town of Kirkby in
Ashfield, which is located in the county of Nottinghamshire, in the East
Midlands of England. I decided to combine my two all-consuming Showing FuchsiasI have shown Fuchsias for many years now and have had some small successes during that time. I erected my first greenhouse in around 1979 in the small garden I have with my flat in Kirkby in Ashfield. I was hooked on fuchsias and needed the greenhouse to grow and overwinter the plants. I can still remember the first time I was ever awarded a prize for one of my plants, I'd been showing for two or three years without getting a place in the first three when one wonderful day I went to the plant viewing, which takes place after the judges have completed their task, and discovered that I had won a third prize. I was so elated and excited. I've won many prizes since that day, but none have affected or excited me in the way that humble third place did. Fuchsia PreferencesI've enjoyed growing Fuchsias as an amateur for longer than I care to remember and have always entered my plants in the local shows. My own preference is to grow standard Fuchsias. Why? Well, I think they are more of a challenge than growing a Fuchsia as a shrub or bush, and a well grown standard in an exhibition will always get those extra points needed to win first prize. Fuchsia MissionI created this site with the intention of sharing the
pleasure I get from growing these wonderfully adaptable plants with all
of you who find this site on the wide and wonderful web. I will also be
logging my progress and taking lots of Fuchsia photographs during the
next few years as I care for some Fuchsia cuttings taken during the
year 2000, and grow them on Fuchsia ShowsI have included the latest schedules for the Fuchsia classes in the two shows. Full directions and maps to the showgrounds are provided.
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hobbies, growing and exhibiting Fuchsias and Geraniums, and spending
lots of time on my computer, by creating this website, Fuchsialand,
dealing with the many facets of growing and exhibiting Fuchsias. I
will, over these coming months, be creating further pages containing
information on the many different methods of growing these lovely
plants. Information regarding these additions will be published in Site
News, please check it out whenever you visit the website. Would you also
please take the time to 
throughout the coming months to hopefully
win, or at least get placed in one of the Fuchsia classes at each of the
following two shows.