
I don’t normally take painting commissions, but I made an exception this time.
I don’t normally take painting commissions, but I made an exception this time.
Not only did Annette keep the garden alive in our absence, she left me with a nice sketch subject.
I have some really nice (and generous) friends. You know who you are. 😁
Fuchsia is such a weird word. Even though I am good at spelling, I keep thinking it should be ‘fuschia’. In fact, knowing that I find the word tricky, I looked it up before doing this lettering and STILL spelled it wrong. I had to move the letters around in Photoshop to correct it. Doh!
I used to think Tagetes lemmonii was so-called because it smells citrusy. But it’s actually named after John Gill Lemmon (1832-1908), who, with his wife Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon (1836-1923), collected plants throughout the American West.
Since first discovering it decades ago at Huntington Gardens, I’ve planted it at every place I’ve lived.