The Last Blooming Fuchsia
October 2025
All summer long, the fuchsia has been a quiet miracle. She sways in her own rhythm, offering a cascade of color that feels both delicate and unyielding. Now, as October arrives and the air sharpens, she still blooms, as though unaware that the season has turned. Or perhaps she does know and chooses to bloom anyway.
Old folklore tells us that the fuchsia belongs to the fairies. In Irish and Scottish tales, it was said to mark places where the veil between worlds thinned. Its lantern-like blossoms were thought to light the path for the fae as they moved unseen through twilight gardens.
There’s a lesson in the fuchsia’s defiance of time. While other plants have withdrawn into rest, the fuchsia keeps offering—color against grey, softness against the coming cold. It does not hurry or mourn. It simply continues to bloom, radiant and unafraid, as if embodying the essence of the divine feminine: creation that endures, nurtures, and transforms even as the world fades around it. To see her still flowering in October is to be reminded that magic lingers—in petals, in patience, in the unseen dance of fairies after dusk.
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