My Fashion Bible: What lies within the Golden Gate Park: Fuchsia Dell

Located in proximity to San Francisco's Sunset and Inner Richmond neighborhoods, the Golden Gate Park yields some of the city's most beautiful landmarks. Fuchsia Dell, originally called the Golden Gate Fuchsia Grove is a warm garden created by the Recreation and Park Departments, which was dedicated in 1940. The Dell's early history is unknown, but the original plantings may have come from the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

Park Superintendent John McLaren was best known for transplanting many of the recycled compounds from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to the park, which took place many years earlier. Eventually, the beauty of what was known then to be Fuchsia Dell had been decimated by storms which hit the area in January of 1995. However, a local botanist named, Peter R. Baye, successfully reestablished the garden the following year. Also with the help from Golden Gate Park gardeners and members of the American Fucshia Society, the dell was replanted with some 150 plants, including many true species.