Just a quick note today about some recent additions.

In the gardening department, linked to the section on books about fuchsias, we’ve added a page from which our site visitors can now buy fuchsia plants through our affiliate relationship with the garden supplier, Thompson Morgan. This first plant-sales page focuses on choosing and buying hardy fuchsias.

We’ve also radically reshaped our World Affairs department. Whereas before there was one long page displaying books on current affairs in various parts of the world we now have separate pages for China, Africa and the Middle East – plus a specialist section on oil and energy – with more to follow. This will make it easier for us to update the displays with additional books on a country or regional basis.

You’ll also notice that from several pages it is now possible to subscribe to the Economist newspaper – a first-class means of keeping up-to-date on world affairs.

- David Murray -

I first became captivated by fuchsias around fifteen years ago when living in the northwest of England, and gradually got to know which cultivars would survive the local winters, which tended to be damp rather than extremely cold.

Some years back we moved a little further south and, more significantly, across country to the East Midlands – almost in Lincolnshire. Winters are quite different here and I’m currently trying to establish how many plants I’ve lost this year – largely due to my carelessness, I should add! One way or another I’ve quite a restocking exercise to go through, so my reference books are again coming down from the shelf.

This has triggered me into putting up a page on the BrunleaBooks web site listing several of the major fuchsia guides – including those which are out of print but, of course, available through our AbeBooks affiliate arrangement.

You can visit this page at “BrunleaBooks garden pages“.

- David Murray -