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Aalt Hillie van de Veen Alf Thornley Single/Semi Double Double H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Beije, Martin, (NL) Clark, Dave, (UK) 2002 1981

Medium sized single\semi double flowers, bold and bright. Vigorous and Medium sized perfect double flowers, upright and bushy. Tube: Pink. robust bush. Tube: Bold red. Sepals: Bold red with green tips. Corolla: Sepals: Vibrant red rose, slightly reflexed. Corolla: A smooth creamy Red with slightly darker petal edges. Foliage: Medium green. white. Foliage: Medium green. Parentage: [Eden's Delight x Display] x Eden's Delight. Alison Patricia Adriaan van Bylant Semi Double Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Johns, Eric, (UK) Cuppens, J, (BE) 1990 2009 RHS AGM Small upward and outward facing flowers and lots of them. Suitable for Tube: White (155C), short and thick. Sepals: Pale pink (56C), light standards. Tube: Shortish, red. Sepals: Pink, droopy. Corolla: Violet yellowish green tips (150C), half down, tips recurved. Corolla: Light red, veined. Foliage: Medium\dark green. Purple (75B) maturing to light rose (68D), half flared, wavy petal edges. Parentage: Pink La Campanella x Zonnedauw Allan Taylor Alan Ayckbourn Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Porter, John, (UK) Clark, Dave, (UK) 2011 1985 Allan Taylor was named in memory of Salford & Bolton Fuchsia Society’s late President. We are most grateful to John Porter for Popular and easy to grow fuchsia, very good for training as standards. generously giving us cuttings of what he considers to be the best plant Tube: Baby pink with slightly darker stripes. Sepals: Baby pink through he’s ever raised and are delighted to have it in our collection. It’s a first white to green at tips. Corolla: White, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: class light red and white single, that deserves to be more widely grown Mid green, leaves have serrated edges. and shown. It's naturally short-jointed, and bushy. The flowers, displayed noticeably outwards, are small, but more than make up for Albertina this by being so freely and evenly produced. All is neat and beautifully proportioned. Trouble-free, a great fuchsia. John said of it: “It is the best Single plant I have ever produced, upright, vigorous, uniform”. That’s some H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) recommendation from someone who’s been growing fuchsias for over 55 years. Netjes, (NL) 1989 Alyssa May Garcia Double

An easy fuchsia producing loads of attractively flared flowers. Tube: H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Rose pink, short. Sepals: Pale pink with green tips, held ½ up. Corolla: Garcia, Sid, (UK) Baby-pink, ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Dark green. 2011 Alexandra Meles

Single An absolutely superb cultivar, popular and successful show fuchsia H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) which provides a superb display both in borders and containers. Tube: Creamy white with pink blush. Sepals: Creamy pink on top, speckled van der Putten, (NL) rose pink underneath, held slightly up and recurved when mature. Corolla: Pink with lilac at first then maturing to pink all over, ½ flared 2011 when mature. Foliage: Darkish mid green. 'Frank Saunders' x 'Lillian NKvF R Annetts'. Strikingly coloured and easy to grow cultivar, suitable for exhibition, containers and bedding. Largely self-deadheading, it is also nicely compact, and breaks well. Flowers are medium sized, and hang on a fairly long pedicel. Tube: White and very short. Sepals: Pale rose pink (62B) with apple green tips, held almost fully up and recurved. Corolla: Violet reddish purple (80B), with a distinct patch of very pale pink\white at the base of each petal. Only slightly flared. Foliage: Small, neat leaves. Dark greyish green.

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Andrew Hadfield Anita Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Rowell, Joseph, (UK) Gotz, Paul, (DE) 1987 1989

Useful exhibition cultivar with a short jointed, self branching, naturally Freely produces small to medium sized bright flowers, suitable for patio neat form, outward and upward facing flowers with sensational colours. containers or borders. Tube: Short, white with coral pink blush. Sepals: Great for patio containers. Tube: Carmine, short. Sepals: Carmine at White with greenish recurved tips. Held horizontally with recurved tips. base then mottled carmine and green to green at tips, held horizontally Corolla: Pink\orange. Glows. Foliage: Dark green, lush and fairly dense. with slight reflex when mature. Corolla: Periwinkle blue with slight pink veining, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid to darkish green. Annie Earle Angela King Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lye, James, (UK) Wilkinson, M, (UK) 1887 2011 Another of James Lye's vigorous, easy to grow, classically beautiful cultivars, suitable for exhibition, containers and bedding. Tube: Creamy Nice. Very very nice. Tube: Pink. Sepals: Pale pink with green tips. white and slender. Sepals: White, held half down. Corolla: Deep Held horizontal and reflexed. Corolla: Opens blue, matures to pale fuchsia, slightly flared. Foliage: Darkish green. cerise and three quarter flared. Foliage: Medium green. 'Sophie Louise' x 'Violet'. Anniek Geerlings Angie Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Franck, (NL) Unknown 1988 Unknown A lovely elegant flower, excellent in containers or summer bedding, superb display on an easy to grow plant. Tube: Pale rose pink with hint Very beautiful, fairly vigorous, always attracts comment due to the of lilac, long. Sepals: Pale rose pink with tiny green tips, quite long and crisply contrasting flower colours. Tube: Pink with candy stripes, short. held slightly down with tips recurved. Corolla: Lilac rose pink, ¼ flared, Sepals: White and pale pink with green tips, held horizontal and short. Foliage: Mid green. recurved. Corolla: Purple-blue maturing lilac, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid to dark green on top of leaves, paler green underneath. Antigone Angie Baby Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Banks, Edward, (UK) Unknown 1887 Unknown Flowers freely. Medium sized crisply coloured flowers, a real beauty. Tube: Short, white. Sepals: White, slight pink blush. Corolla: Flowers freely. Blooms are small to medium sized and a very pretty Pink\orange. Glows. Foliage: Dark green which the flowers show well flared shape. Lovely container plant. Tube: Warm peachy orange-pink. against. Sepals: Orange-pink. Swept right back over tube, reflexed tips. Corolla: Smoky coral pink, salmon. Fully flared. Foliage: Mid green. Apart Anhaltiner Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Moerman, (NL) Strumper, Karl, (DE) 1991 1990 Very attractive, interesting flowers produced generously, another much underrated fuchsia. Recommended. Tube: Creamy white, long in An attractive free-flowering small to medium sized bush well suited to proportion to flower size. Sepals: White with green tips, held horizontally border or contaners. Tube: Pale pink with darker stripes, short. Sepals: with slight recurve at tips. Corolla: Fuchsia pink petal edges changing White with pink blush and pale green tips, white underneath, held ¼ through paler pink to white in centre of petal base, ½ flared. Foliage: down with partial recurve. Corolla: Light magenta-purple with darker Pale mid green. edges to the petals, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

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Arels Nina Barbara Reynolds Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Elsman, (NL) Reynolds, Gordon, (UK) 2011 2005

Produces medium sized flowers very freely, flowers contrast well with Popular exhibition cultivar, has a subtle beauty which is stunning in pots the darkish green foliage giving an eye-catching display. Tube: White and containers. Tube: Cream with hint of pink. Sepals: Cream with hint with pale green tint. Sepals: White with pale pink edges and pale green of pink at base and slight green tinge at tips, held horizontally with tips tips, held slightly down from horizontal. Corolla: White with very slight recurved. Corolla: White, flaring only slightly when mature. Foliage: Mid pink flushes. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish green. green.

Arels Tojo Beauty of Purbeck Single Semi Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Elsman, A, (NL) Swinbank, (UK) 2011 1991 NKvF R Eye-catching, easy to grow, classically beautiful cultivar suitable for Small to medium sized flowers appear bright and display well against exhibition, containers or bedding. Tube: White with pink candy stripes, the mid green foliage, lovely container or bedding plant. Tube: White long and slender. Sepals: White with apple green tips, held fully up and with pale pink striping. Sepals: White with rose flushes and stripes and recurved. Corolla: Dark reddish purple, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green. green tips, held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: White. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Ashville Beauty of Trowbridge Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Wilkinson, M, (UK) Lye, James, (UK) 2010 1881

This one catches the eye with it's striking flower colours which seem to stand out, even glow, against the dark foliage. Recommended. Tube: Medium to large flowers, graceful and alluring. Mr Lye produced many Creamy white with pink blush, short. Sepals: White with hint of rose and truly lovely fuchsias and this is amongst his best. (IMHOP). Tube: green tips, held slightly down. Corolla: Rich fuchsia pink mixed with Stout, Waxy creamy-white, candy striped in pale pink. Sepals: Creamy- lavender, lighter at base, more pink at edges, ¼ flared. Foliage: Dark white, recurved and greenish at tips. Corolla: Cerise, creamy-white at green on top, mid green under. base. Foliage: Medium green with serrated edged leaves.

Avon Celebration Binnenland ('t Binnenland) Semi Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lockyer, J, (UK) van den Brink, (NL) 1978 2011 NKvF R A very attractively coloured semi double flower with variegated foliage, Stiffly upright cultivar that makes a good half or full standard, does best make a beautiful display. Strong upright grower, flowers freely. Tube: in dappled shade. Tube: Pink, short. Sepals: Pale pink with lighter White, fairly short. Sepals: White with apple green tips, broad, held ½ undersides, held half up and straight. Corolla: Reddish purple. Slightly up and slightly reflexed . Corolla: White at base, shading through pink flared\bell shaped. Foliage: Mid green. to mauve-lilac, darker edges. Foliage: Light green and yellow variegated. Black Country 21 Baby Brooke Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Reynolds, Gordon, (UK) Swaby, Alan, (UK) 2007 2011 Benefits from regular pinching out in early stages to give a good shape. Suitable for exhibition. Bold colours give eye-appeal. Named in honour An elegant and sophisticated flower, the plant provides oodles of of the 21st anniversary of the Black Country Fuchsia Society in the UK. flowers and gives a fabulous display. Recommended. Tube: White with Tube: Deep pink, short.Sepals: Deep pink with green tips, held slightly hint of rose. Sepals: White with hint of rose blending through white to up from horizontal. Corolla: Purple-plum. ¼ flared when mature. green tips, held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: Opens violet and matures Foliage: Mid green. paler violet with hint of pale purple, little or no flare. Foliage: Darkish green. 'Anna Louise' x 'Natasha Lynn'. Photo courtesy of Alan Swaby. 3 Bush A - B

Black Prince Brian McFetridge Single Semi Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Banks, Edward, (UK) Swaby, Alan, (UK) 1861 2010

A free flowering vigorous bush, easy to grow. Was once a very popular Naturally bushy and short jointed, produces a lot of flowers, easy to show bench cultivar and could still hold its own. Tube: Bold red, short. grow and very beautiful. Tube: Red with darker stripes, slender. Sepals: Sepals: Bold red, held horizontal with recurved tips. Corolla: Very deep Red-violet, paler towards green tips, held fully up. Corolla: Indigo- purple, almost black, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid to dark green. purple, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

Bland's New Striped British Jubilee Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Bland, J, (UK) Bielby\Oxtoby, (UK) 1872 1988

A fine bush, excellent in containers and makes a very good standard. Named by the British Fuchsia Society for their Golden Jubilee. Tube: Tube: Amaranth red. Sepals: Amaranth red, held slightly up and fully Pale pink. Sepals: Pale pink, recurved at tips. Corolla: Claret rose. recurved almost to the tube. Curly. Corolla: Bold purple with streaks of Foliage: Medium green. raspberry down through the centre of the petals. ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green. British Sterling Blue Sleighbells Semi Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Foster, (US) Barton, (NZ) 1972 1970 Vigorous grower. Easy but is a greedy fuchsia that needs to be fed well. Tube: White, plump and short. Sepals: White on top, pink underside, Gorgeous, right up there with the very best of the blues. Produces lots green tipped. Corolla: Lavender faintly blushed with rose, delicate pink of flowers and is largely self dead-heading. Tube: White, faint striping. veined. Foliage: Medium green. Sepals: Long, bright white fading to apple green. Corolla: Strong lavender blue with white 'flames' at base. Foliage: Mid green. ↓ Bush Fuchsias C - E Start Here ↓ Border Raider Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Gordon, (UK) 2001 Best of Show, BFS Hexham, 2000 Hugely popular exhibition cultivar, superb in containers. Tube: Pink, Calverley short.Sepals: Pink, held ½ up with recurved tips. Corolla: White, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid to light green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Brenda White Holmes, Ron, (UK) Single 1992 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Pacey, (UK) Smallish upright bush suitable for quarter or half standards as well as 1986 containers or bedding. Happy in full sun. Tube: White with pink stripes, short. Sepals: White with deep rose pink stripes, held half up. Corolla: Violet, bold. Slightly flared and barrel shaped. Foliage: Mid green. Strikingly pretty, flowers freely and naturally produces a well shaped bush. Flowers face partially outwards. Tube: Short, carmine pink. Sepals: Carmine pink through white to apple green tips, horizontal with slight recurve. Corolla: Carmine pink blush at base fading to bright clean white with carmine pink veins near base. Foliage: Mid green.

4 Bush C - E

Cambridge Louie Chartwell Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Napthen, CW, (UK) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) 1977 1977

Flowers and flowers, at least two per node, a wonderful fuchsia, that’s a Flowers profusely and easy to grow. Ideal summer bedding or container favourite with exhibitors and gardeners alike. Keep in good light, (not plant. Medium sized. Tube: White. Sepals: Rhodamine pink fading full sun) and get it outdoors as much as you can in Spring, as soon as through white to green tips. Slightly swept back from corolla and with it’s safe to do so. Quickly gets leggy under glass. No fuchsia copes well recurved tips. Corolla: A bold wisteria blue growing paler toward base of with overwatering, but Cambridge Louie is particularly sensitive to it petals. Foliage: Medium green. Christine Clements x Cloverdale Pearl. when cuttings are first potted, and will respond in the traditional way, by quickly dying. Apparently named after a keen lady gardener who sadly lost her sight but was able to tell her beloved fuchsias apart by their Checkerboard smell. Tube: Warm pink, medium sized. Sepals: Quite long, warm pink, held horizontally with a trace of green on the recurved tips. Corolla: Single Pinkish violet, ¼ flared, smooth petal edges. Foliage: Mid green. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Walker & Jones, (US) Canny Bob 1948 Single RHS AGM H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Flowers early, profusely and over a long period. Easy to grow. Highly Hewitson, (UK) recommended trouble free cultivar which can be trained easily to most shapes, though it doesn't do weeping styles easily. Very stiff upright 1997 growth, makes excellent ½, ¾ or full standards. Awards: RHS AGM. Medium sized. Tube: Red, sometimes striped. Fairly long. Sepals: Red at base then suddenly changes to white. Slightly swept back from Stiffly upright bush fuchsia with numerous semi-erect smallish white corolla and recurved. Corolla: Darker red than tube, with white at the and coral pink flowers. Superb container, pot or summer bedding plant. base of the petals. Foliage: Medium green, finely serrated leaves. Flower: Single, small. Tube: White, short. Sepals: White with tiny green tips, held slightly down from horizontal. Corolla: Baby pink with bold Cherry Lee bright coral pink picotee edgfes to the petals. ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Semi Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Caroline Phillips, Nancy, (US) Single 2013 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Miller, (UK) A very lovely and elegant fuchsia, that like so many of the most 1967 beautiful, is very hard to describe properly. Hybridized by Nancy Phillips, who with her husband Arthur, does so much to promote the fuchsia both in the UK and the US. Superb blooms, complimented by Makes a superb half standard as well as being an excellent container unusually bright and attractive foliage. A most distinctive and striking fuchsia. Tube: Pink, short. Sepals: Pink with cream flushes, held fully plant. Tube: About 1.5cm (5\8") long, almost pure white, . Sepals: About up and recurved. Corolla: Lavender-violet, ¾ flared and bell-shaped. 4cm (1 1\2" long. White with a reddish pink flush at the base, fading to Foliage: Mid green. pinkish white towards the tips. Held horizontally and recurved, with a slight twist. Corolla: Long (2.5cm (1") or more), with smooth petals of Chang blue violet (93B), fading towards a creamy white at the base of the petal, with a purple red flush and stripe, ¾ flared. Foliage: An unusual Single shade of yellow green (145B).. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Clipper Hazard & Hazard, (US) Single 1946 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) RHS AGM Lye, James, (UK) Flowers profusely, a very reliable cultivar for a superb display. Tube: Short, Orangey red. Sepals: Orangey red fading to green, short, slightly 1901 recurved. Corolla: Orange to red. Foliage: Medium green with slightly lighter undersides. F. cordifolia hybrid. Easy to grow and very rewarding, bright and abundant large flowers of substance and intense depth of colour. Tube: Scarlet, curvy. Sepals: Scarlet, held ½ to ¾ up, reflexed. Corolla: Purple, shaded lighter at the base and darker at edges, ½ flared. Foliage: Dark Green.

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Cloverdale Jewel Crosby Soroptimist Semi Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) Clark, Dave, (UK) 1974 1989

A jewel is a fair description of this beauty. Flowers very freely. Flower: Dave Clark says on his website: This fuchsia is a show quality fuchsia Semi-double. Tube: Rose. Sepals: Rose fading through pink to green and had won many awards nationwide. It is a true single. It has a tips, held half up. Corolla: Wisteria blue, rose pink veining towards paler compact growth pattern which is easy to shape. An excellent show pink petal base. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. variety that also makes an excellent standard. The flowers are also complimented by extremely dark green foliage. Very easy to grow and Coronation propagate. It was named and dedicated to the local Crosby Soroptimist Society at the request of the late Mrs. Margaret Berger, a past Double President. Margaret, a lovely lady, was also the Secretary of H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Merseyside Fuchsia Group. Tube: Short, creamy white, with pink candy stripes. Sepals: Held horizontally. Pink, with a scarlet vein in the centre, Tiret, H, (US) and a trace of apple green on the recurved tips. Corolla: Cream veined pink which is complimented with burgundy anthers and stigma. ½ 1953 flared, smooth petal edges. Foliage: Dark green.

Cumbrian Lass This is a large double, with a long tube and sepals of creamy white\pale pink. The fully double flowers are pink splashed with red. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Countess of Aberdeen Reynolds, Gordon, (UK) Single 2011 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Forbes, D & Cocker, (UK) Very beautiful vigorous bush with numerous flowers. Unusual corolla 1856 colouring, most attractive. Tube: Pink, short. Sepals: Pink, bolder at edges, held fully up and recurved. Corolla: White with slight lavender smokiness. No flare. Foliage: Mid green. This lovely old cultivar is fairly slow growing, stiffly upright and compact. It took us a long time to obtain a plant of it, and we can safely say its Dainty Lady reputation for being slow and difficult to root from cuttings is fully justified. We too, will have very few available. Not particularly easy to Semi Double grow either. Like many of the most highly desirable fuchsias, this one absolutely will not tolerate overwatering. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you!) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Countess of Aberdeen has small, utterly gorgeous slightly outward Lowe, H, (UK) facing flowers clustered towards the tops of the stems, set off by very handsome and close set dark, toothed leaves. The flowers are paler 1878 colours than described below when growing in shade. Tube: The tube is short and white (N155B). Sepals: Short and broad, light red pink (38D), held horizontally. Corolla: The lower part of the corolla is purple red This is a very pretty fuchsia in classic red and white, complemented by (N57A), with the upper part a dark pink red (52A). ½ flared, smooth handsome dark foliage and and stems. Tube: Short, dark red with a petal edges. Foliage: Dark green. bulbous shape. Sepals: Broad, and rather short, dark pink red, held fully up. Corolla: Creamy white petals, ¼ flared with distince dark pink veins. Coxeen Foliage: Dark green. Single Dark & Delicious H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Howlett, J, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1936 Unknown Unknown It’s easy to see why this delightful old lady has survived for so long, although not easy to find nowadays. Quite lovely flowers with relatively short pure white sepals which contrast well with both the darker tube Compact and vigorous grower with beautifully shaped tastefully and sepals. Tube: Medium, slightly bulbous, dark pinkish coral, almost coloured flowers. Flower: Single, medium. Tube: Rich burgundy. striped appearance. Sepals: Short and relatively broad, held Sepals: Deep burgundy, held fully up and recurved. Corolla: Dark indigo horizontally. Pure white, with slender greenish tips. Corolla: Purple pink and purple-violet, burgundy at base of petals. Fully flared when mature. with a white flush from the top, ½ flared, smooth petal edges. Foliage: Foliage: Darkish mid green. Mid green.

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De Groot's Dream Delta's Dream Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Vreek-van't Westeinde, (NL) Vreek-van't Westeinde, (NL) 1991 1994

Graceful, almost shy flowers, pleasing overall appearance. Easy to Enchanting delicate flower colours, informal sort of plant with flowers to grow and shape. Tube: Short, bright rose pink. Sepals: Bright scarlet match, very attractive. Lovely bedding or container plant..Flower: pink, held ¼ down. Corolla: Aubergine. Foliage: Dark green, shiny Single, medium.Tube: Greeny-white, short.Sepals: White with green leaves. tips, held horizontally with partial recurve.Corolla: White with purple- rose blush and petal edges. Fully flared. Foliage: Dark green. DebRon's Beau Dean Richard Delta's Parade Double Semi Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Monnier, Debbie & Ron, (US) Vreek-van't Westeinde, (NL) 2009 1991 VKC Award of Merit A gloriously dark double fuchsia, with petals of an amazing deep colour. Fabulous. There is a video clip from 2008 at Strong grower that flowers very generously providing a spectacular "http:\\www.youtube.com\watch?v=SKagJnrlbB4" showing its hybridizer, display. Good for containers or bedding\borders. Tube: Peachy pink. Ron Monnier, talking about it and his other wonderful introductions from Sepals: Light purple-red, held very slightly down from horizontal and that year. Tube: Short, thick and bulbous, in red (53D). Sepals: Quite recurved to the extent that the tips are vertical. Corolla: Dark purple, broad, held horizontally with tips recurved. Richly coloured in magenta pinky white at base. ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Habit: (61C), a slightly paler shade on the lower surface. Corolla: Broader than Upright bush. it is long, quarter flared; smooth turned under margins; opens an amazing dark purple (79A); maturing to dark reddish purple (61A). Deutsche Perle Foliage: A lightish green (137C). Single DebRon's Party Girls H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Twrdy, J, (CZ) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1874 Monnier, Debbie & Ron, (US)

2009 A classically beautiful vintage fuchsia, that flowers well and makes a good container plant. Tube: Slim (7mm wide), creamy white (N155B) and a bit over 2cm long (about 1"). Sepals: Creamy white (N155B), A very cute little fuchsia with plenty of ¾ flared flowers with sepals held (with a faint pink blush in sun) and a hint of green at the tips. Quite thick fully up. There is a video clip from 2008 at and substantial, but not coarse. Held below horizontal, but not ½ down. "http:\\www.youtube.com\watch?v=SKagJnrlbB4" showing its hybridizer, Corolla: About 2cm (¾") long. Smooth petals of dark pink (61D), edged Ron Monnier, talking about it and his other wonderful introductions from purple red (N57A), held ¼ flared. Foliage: Large, broad, lush-looking that year. Tube: Short and plump in light rose (58D). Sepals: Long, light leaves in a pale green, with a disctinct bronze flush, which fades as the rose (58D) with pale green tips, held fully up. Corolla: Three quarter leaves mature. flared; wavy margins; opens purple (83A), veined light rose (58D); maturing to reddish purple (74A), veined light rose (58D). Foliage: Diamond Wedding Yellowish green (146B). Single DebRon's Snow Fairy H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Semi Double Holmes, Ron, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1989 Monnier, Debbie & Ron, (US)

2012 Vigorous bush that flowers very freely all season long and is largely self dead-heading. Flower: Single. Tube: Glossy red, short. Sepals: Glossy red with very pale green tips, held ½ up and fully recurved when Profuse, pale blooms nicely displayed on a small and bushy plant. A mature. Corolla: Red-violet to red-purple with red veins, ½ flared when very pretty fuchsia that's just a bit different. Tube: Dark rose (54A), mature. Foliage: Lightish green. short, medium width. Sepals: Broad, held fully up. The upper surface is magenta (61C) to pink (62A), and dark rose (54A) at the base. The lower surface, with a creped texture, is magenta (61C) with palish green tips. Corolla: Opens & matures cream (158D) with light reddish purple (72D) veins. Half flared. Foliage: Mid green.

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Doffie East Anglian Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Swaby, Alan, (UK) Thorne, (UK) 2008 1960

A vigorous, bushy plant that produces abundant perfectly shaped Grows naturally bushy, self branching and flowers freely. Tube: Creamy flowers. Flower: Single, small\medium. Tube: Red with purple tinge. white with very faint pink blush. Sepals: Creamy white with very faint Sepals: Red with purple tinge, held horizontally with slight recurve. pink blush, held ½ down with recurve towards tips. Corolla: Deep rose Corolla: Purple-violet, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. pink fading to lighter pink with orange tinge towards base of petals. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Doray Echo Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Birt, Ray, (UK) Stiff, E, (UK) 2011 1995

A lovely cultivar produced from two superb parents. Flower: Single, medium. Tube: White. Sepals: White, sometimes with pale green tips. A little treasure, with fetching upward or outward facing flowers. Held fully up with recurved tips. Corolla: Opens violet blue with white at Individual flowers aren't big, but there are lots of them. Usually two base, matures to pale violet. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Lightish flowers per node. 'Echo' is really hard to describe, as no part of the mid green. 'Loves Reward' x 'Rose Fantasia' . flower is one colour, the photo doesn't do it justice. Tube: Short, about 5mm long x 4mm wide, red pink (52B) or thereabouts. . Sepals: About Dorothy Shields the same colour as tube, but each sepal is slightly different, not just in colour, but also in size, shape and position. More or less 2.5cm (1") Double long. Generally held ½ up, often the three darker sepals will recurve, H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) and the broadest, palest one will reflex; all have tiny green tips. They are not symmetrical, whichever way they are viewed, some will also Redfern, Frederick, (UK) twist slightly. Corolla: About 1.5cm (5\8") long. Each petal is smooth with a faintly crimped edge. The main colour is a broad picotee edge of 1989 dark pink violet (77A), fading to light violet (somwhere between 76B and 69C), with prominent veins of purple red (N57A). The flower ages to a more pink shade. From half to fully flared. Foliage: Mid green. Strong upward grower requiring early pinching to attain good shape. Very beautiful and free flowering. Tube: Pale rose. Short. Sepals: Rose Eden Rock with apple green tips, held half up, recurved tips. Corolla: Violet maturing purple. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: 'Jackie Bull x 'Redfern'. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Duchess of Albany Mitchinson, (UK) Single 1886 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Rundle, W, (UK) Elegant fuchsia, freely produces medium sized flowers. An extremely reliable and trouble free cultivar. Not as widely available as it deserves 1891 to be. Tube: Bold rose red. Sepals: Bold rose red. Corolla: Blueish aubergine. Foliage: Mid to dark green.

Another magnificent old cultivar that's easy to grow. Tube: Medium Eleanor Clark thick, creamy white. Sepals: Creamy white, firm and held slightly down from horizontal. Corolla: A rich glowing dark pink red (52A), each petal Single having with gently ruffled pleats. Foliage: Lush, lightish green leaves with a noticeably toothed edge, and a bronzy tint to the young growth. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Clark, Dave, (UK) Dying Embers 1980 Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Produces medium sized beautifully shaped flowers. Shows best colour Carless, Howard, (UK) in shady conditions. A very successful exhibition cultivar that still holds it's own at shows. Sepals: Very pale pink with deeper pink stripes. 1997 Corolla: Seashell pink. Foliage: Light to medium green. A sport from the American cultivar 'Symphony' .

An elegant and graceful cultivar with dark smokey blooms which flowers well and is very easy to grow. Tube: Short, crimson red. Sepals: Crimson red. Corolla: Aubergine. Foliage: Dark green, narrow leaves on dark maroon stems.

8 Bush C - E

Eleanor Grace Geoff Oke Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Bush, (UK) Reynolds, Gordon, (UK) 1989 2003

Deserves to be more widely available, this is an easy to grow and very Low growing, neat and compact, produces abundant blooms. Tube: rewarding fuchsia. Sepals: Rose pink fading paler towards green tips. Creamy white, short. Sepals: Creamy white with pale pink candy stripes Held horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: White with pink veining and green tips on top, pale rose with green tips underneath, held ½ towards base of petals. ½ to ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. down with gently recurved tips. Corolla: Heliotrope violet, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Erik Georges Remy Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Brunnert, Stefan, (DE) Masse, (FR) 2004 1992

Small and demure single flowers, but lots of them on an elegant upright bush. The colouring is fresh and vivid - this plant stands out from the A self branching, short jointed and very pretty fuchsia which produces crowd. Tube: Slim, with a sharp-edged bulge near the top, pale pink abundant unusually shaped flowers. Tube: Rose pink, long. Sepals: with a greenish white tint. Sepals: Fairly long and slim, held half down. Rose pink, held horizontally. Corolla: Purple-rose pink, ½ flared. Unusual pink with a overlying flush of a darker shade, slightly recurved Foliage: Mid Green. green tips. Slightly darker pink lower surface. Corolla: Almost no flare, smooth overlapping petals of a warm magenta pink. Foliage: Mid green. Gladiator Double Ernie H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Lemoine, (FR) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1899

1979 A sumptuous double in pale pink with darker veining. Tube: Medium length, light red. Sepals: Slightly darker red, quite thick and substantial, held half up. Corolla: Full double, petals are creamy pale pink with Small neat fuchsia ideal for patio containers or bedding. Has had much darker veins and shading towards the base. Foliage: Mid green. success on the show bench. Tube: Cerise, short. Sepals: Cerise, held ½ up with tips recurved slightly. Corolla: White with rose veining, ½ Glendale flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Single ↓ Bush Fuchsias F - J Start Here ↓ H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Evans & Reeves, (US) 1936

This lovely old cultivar just wants to flower non-stop, blooms are clustered near the tops of the stems. Tube: Slender, about 1cm (3\8") long, purple red (N57A). Sepals: Held half down, also purple red (N57A). Corolla: Barely flared, dark pink (61C). Foliage: Mid green.

First Kiss Good Girl Semi Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Goodwin, (UK) 2003 2008 VKC Award of Merit Dark green leaves set off the neat, almost white flowers, which are A very pretty, free flowering, self branching, stiff upright growing cultivar freely carried. A most appealing fuchsia. Tube: Medium thick, 1cm ideal for containers or training into fans or half standards etc. Tube: (3\8") long, cream (158D). Sepals: About 2.5cm (1") long, held half up, Pale pink. Sepals: Pale pink, horizontally held, slightly recurved. (recurved, green tips), pale creamy pink (56C/D) on the upper surface, Corolla: Violet-blue, maturing to light purple. Foliage: Mid green. a little darker on the lower surface (56B/C). Corolla: Half flared pale light red pink (49D). Foliage: Neat, dark green leaves (147A).

9 Bush F - J

Granada Harvey's Reward Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Schnabel, (US) Allsop, (UK) 1957 2004

Large, richly coloured, double flowers, on a vigorous plant. The flower is Flowers freely producing attractive blooms that are held away from the substantial and lasts well. Tube: Bulbous shape, medium thickness and foliage. Suitable for patio containers, pots and bedding. Tube: Bright fairly short, pinkish red, striped slightly darker. Sepals: Held horizontally White. Sepals: Bright White. Corolla: Vivid burgundy. Foliage: Mid- with recurved tips, same colour as tube, although darker on the lower green. surface. Corolla: Fully double, plenty of narrowed petals in rich purple pinks with dark rose veins and flush at the base of the petals. Foliage: Henkelly's Gitano Quite dark green, largish leaves.. Single Gunar Reich H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Double Spierings, (NL) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 2008 Michiels, Marcel, (BE)

2008 A vigorous beauty suitable for containers, borders or bedding. Also suitable for training into standards, fans etc. Flowers freely. Tube: Red. Sepals: Red, held horizontally, recurved tips. Corolla: Dark reddish Flowers very freely, best colours in shade but most flowers in sun and purple. Quarter flared. Foliage: Dark green. Parentage: ('Drama Girl' x bright conditions. Tube: Pale rose. Sepals: White with light rose tint. 'Roesse Blacky') x 'Loxhore Mazurka'. Held half up, recurved tips. Corolla: Reddish purple maturing to light purple. Half flared. Foliage: Dark green. Parentage: 'Niagara Falls' x Henkelly's Hermine 'Ector's Ann Gaby'. Single Hampshire Blue H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Semi Double Spierings, (NL) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 2010 Oakleigh Nurseries, (UK)

1983 Naturally self branching and short jointed, compact plant that flowers very generously. Tube: Creamy white with hint of rose. Sepals: White with rose blushes and green tips, held horizontally and slightly recurved. Beautiful pastel shaded flowers display well against the lush foliage. Corolla: Deep violet-purple, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Tube: Creamy white with hint of pink. Sepals: White with hint of pink, held slightly up and recurved almost back to the tube. Corolla: Periwinkle blue, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Henkelly's Trubia Harlow Car Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Spierings, (NL) Johns, Eric, (UK) 2010 1988 Vigorous and easy to grow cultivar. Flowers are produced very generously and face outwards. Tube: White with faint pink tinge. Regarding the name of this one, queried with the RHS botanical editors, Sepals: White at base changing to rose pink then green at the tip, held the compiler of the RHS Plant Finder stated: "Harlow Car looks strange ½ down with slightly recurved tips. Corolla: Cerise with darker picotee but this was discussed by the RHS Advisory Panel on Nomenclature edges, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid to dark green. and Taxonomy (APONAT) on 30 May 1995 where: "It was agreed that the spelling of an epithet commemorating a person or place should Henriette Ernst remain as published, irrespective of that person or place later adopting a different spelling of their name. The case of Harlow Car\Harlow Carr Single had been indicated. Harlow Car was, apparently, a previous spelling". H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) So there you have it. Tube: Pale pink, slender. Sepals: Very pale pink with rose blushes, held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: White. Foliage: Curio, Ernst (DE) Darkish green. 1907

A dwarf bush, but with proportionately large single flowers. Tube: Very short and thick, dark pinkish red. Sepals: Quite broad and thick, dark pinkish red, held horizontally, often 5 in number. Corolla: A rich light purple violet shade, with dark rose veins. Each petal is slightly rolled, rather than lying smoothly over its neighbour, making the flower resemble a semi double. Foliage: Mid green.

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HeRi Asagi Herps Mignon Single Semi Double/Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Buiting, Henry, (NL) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 2008 2002 VKC Award of Merit A super little ¾ flared flower in rich jewel colours, set off by fully up held Erect pale flowers of greenish white and pale pink, double & semi sepals. Tube: Creamy white (N155A), medium sized. Sepals: Pale rose double. Tube: Light greenish white (157C), 11mm (½") long. Sepals: pink (65A) on upper surface, purple pink (N74C) on lower surface held Cream (11D), held half down; tips reflexed, 2cm(¾") long. Corolla: Half fully up, tips recurved. Corolla: Opens purple (71A), flaring and maturing flared, smooth petal edges, opens & matures pale pink (62D), 17mm to a dark reddish purple (60B). Foliage: Mid green. (¾") long. Foliage: Dark green (147A). Parentage: [(F. magdalenae x F. fulgens grandiflora) x Wendy van Wanten] x Gerhardas Panache HeRi Trevally Herps Piccolo Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Buiting, Henry, (NL) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 2008 2002 VKC Award of Merit Profuse medium sized single flowers maturing fully flared. Gorgeous. Tube: Medium, pink. Sepals: Medium, pink through white to green tips. A little cracker which will appeal to anyone who loves unusual or tubular Matures right back against tube, recurved. Corolla: Slightly on the red flowers. Small bush. Tube: White (155D), 20mm (¾") long. Sepals: Half side of purple. Foliage: Mid green. down, white (155D), pale green reflexed tips. 16mm (¾") long. Corolla: Foliage: Dark green (137A). Parentage: WALZ Trompet x Prince Syray. Herps Buggy Single Herps Schalmei H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) 2006 Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 2006 A small, pretty bush fuchsia with poised and elegant flowers of magenta and reddish purple. Good self branching habit Tube: Magenta (63A); medium length and thickness. Sepals: Horizontal or half up, tips A lovely small bush with flowers of pale pinks and yellowish greens. reflexed; reddish purple (67A) upper surface; magenta (67B) lower Tube: 24mm (1") long & thin, rose (55B). Sepals: Held half down, surface. Corolla: Opens light purple (N74C); matures light reddish yellowish green tips reflexed. Upper is rose (55B) & light apple green purple (72C). Half flared, smooth petals have wavy edges. Foliage: (145C), lower pink (54D) & pale yellow green (150D). 22mm (¾") long. Dark green. Corolla: Foliage: Dark green (136A). Parentage: ([(F. magdalenae x F. fulgens grandiflora) x tetraploid F. fulgens gesneriana] x WALZ Floreat) Herps Contrabas Herps Steekar Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 2003 2006

A pretty fuchsia whose often horizontally held flowers are of an unusual colour and shape. Tube: Pink (50D) striped rose (50B), 22mm (⅞") A self branching small bush with charming small outward facing flowers. long. Sepals: Rose (50B) upper, rose (47C) lower, held half down, Tube: Reddish purple (67A), 13mm (½") long, half as wide. Sepals: yellowish green (144B) tips reflexed. Corolla: Half flared, turned under Held horizontally, tips reflexed. Upper is magenta (67B) tipped olive wavy petal margins; opens rose (47C), matures red (47B) quite short at green (152B), lower much paler. Corolla: Quarter flared, wavy, turned 12mm (½") long. Foliage: Dark green (133A). Parentage: Lechlade under petal edges; opens light purple (N78C) with pale purple (76C) Rocket x Wendy van Wanten. base, maturing to violet (76A). 14mm (½") long. Foliage: Dark green (136A). Parentage: Herps Parachute x Apart Herps Martina Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 2005

Numerous small to medium sized tubular flowers. Exceedingly pretty. Tube: Long, fluted white through pink. Sepals: Short, pink, white, to green tips. Corolla: Neat, stunning pink\rose red. Foliage: Medium leaves, mid green, matt, not shiny. 11 Bush F - J

Herps Tamboerijn Jack Stanway Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) Rowell, Joseph, (UK) 2002 1985 NKvF AM and VKC AM A medium sized plant with glossy leaves & outward facing tubular Flowers freely. One of the prettiest variegated fuchsias. Tube: Medium, blooms of pink and magenta. Tube: Magenta (63B), 27mm (1") long. white with pink blushes. Sepals: Long, white and pink with slightly Sepals: Held horizontally, tips recurved, upper is magenta (58B), lower recurved tips. Corolla: Pink veined white, petals curving inwards at the dark rose (58C). 26mm(1") long. Corolla: Quarter flared, smooth petal ends. Foliage: A sage like green with maroon blushes, edge variegated edges, opens & matures pale pink (69A). 17mm (¾") long. Foliage: with cream. Dark green (139A). Parentage: (F. magdalenae x F. fulgens grandiflora) x Impudence James Lye Horsforth Beauty Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lye, James, (UK) Swaby, Alan, (UK) 1883 2011 An old but exceedingly fine fuchsia, easy to grow. Tube: Creamy white with rose blush. Sepals: White with rose blush and green tips. Corolla: Naturally bushy growth covered in masses of flowers provides a fine Cerise-purple maturing cerise. Foliage: Mid green. display in containers or bedding. Tube: Red, slender. Sepals: Red, held fully up and recurved when mature. Corolla: Opens violet blue and Jaspers Zuurstok matures lavender, little or no flare. Foliage: Mid green. Single Horsforth in Bloom H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single van Aspert, (NL) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 2010 Swaby, Alan, (UK)

2011 Strong upright grower, requires frequent pinching out in the early stages of growth to produce a good shape. 'Zuurstock' means 'Candy'. Tube: White with rose blush, long, slender. Sepals: Very pale rose, held Wonderful in containers or bedding. Tube: Dark rose, short. Sepals: horizontally and straight. Corolla: Candy pink, up to ¼ flared. Foliage: Dark rose, held fully up and recurved when mature. Corolla: Opens dark Darkish green. purple and matures reddish purple, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Dark green. 'Anna Louise' x 'Maxima'. Jaunty Jack Impulse Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Allsop, (UK) Saxondale, (UK) 2000 1988 Profuse smallish sized flowers with colours that are bold and seem to almost to glow. Tube: Medium, maroon\red. Sepals: Abundant large flowers in lilac and white. Easy to grow. Tube: Creamy Crimson\maroon\red slightly recurved. Corolla: Red aubergine. Foliage: white (155D), medium sized. Sepals: Held half up, with a slight twist. Smallish glossy leaves, mid green. Creamy white (155D) on the upper surface, the under surface the same but with a flush of purple red (58B). Pale green, recurved tips. Corolla: Jean Frisby Beautifully double, pale lilac (76C) maturing a shade darker (76C). Foliage: Medium green (137A), quite large leaves. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Jack Siverns Day, Jim, (UK) Single 2000 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Spierings, (NL) Exceptionally pretty picotee edged petals on generously produced 2010 flowers. Tube: White. Sepals: White with red-violet blushes towards tips, held horizontally with slight recurve at tips. Corolla: Purple-red. ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Exceptionally pretty, compact bush fuchsia ideal for patio containers and bedding. Tube: Apricot pink, short. Sepals: Pale violet-cerise, darker towards ends, held fully up and recurved. Corolla: Aubergine fading to violet-cerise when mature, easing to white at base of petals, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

12 Bush F - J

Jeeves John Nicholass Semi Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lockerbie, Ron, (AU) Koerts, Tielko, (NL) 1975 2012

Difficult to ignore, indeed there is "about as much chance of doing so as Excellent cultivar producing massed outward facing flowers of bright a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of bold colour. We really like this one. Tube: Deep rose pink, short. melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle". Maybe not Sepals: Deep rose with green tips on top, lighter underneath. Held for you if you are dismayed by loud colours, celluloid cuffs & a shoddily slightly down with recurved tips when mature. Corolla: Aubergine with pressed trouser crease. Tube: Bold red, short. Sepals: Bold red, held red overtones, pales to rose-pink at base of petals, deep rose-pink slightly up with slight reflex. Corolla: Persian rose with great splashes of veins, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid to dark green. Parentage: rich violet mainly towards the lower half of the petals. ½ flared when Prince Syrah' x 'Nellie Nuttall'. mature. Foliage: Mid green. Jotu Jennifer Ann Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

Produces masses of medium sized eye-catching flowers. Not easy to Classically shaped flowers, corolla is particularly orange. Tube: White. ignore. Rare, deserves more attention as it's easy to grow and Sepals: White, held ½ down with slight recurve. Corolla: Orange, little or sensational. Tube: Short, pink. Sepals: Longish, pink, white. Corolla: no flare. Foliage: Mid green. Flamboyant and audacious, stunning violet blue & pink ripple. Foliage: Medium leaves, mid green. Jenny May Judith Louise Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Bush, (UK) Barnes, (UK) 1998 1995

An all-rounder fuchsia which is very good for containers, bedding and the show bench. Tube: Creamy pink. Sepals: Creamy pink, held A fuchsia with distinguished parents that has inherited their superb horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: Steely wisteria blue maturing characteristics, easy to grow and abundant flowers. Tube: Creamy lavender. Up to ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. white. Sepals: Creamy white with very slight pink blush. Corolla: Cerise, darker at petal edges and blending to white at the base of petals. Jester Foliage: Mid green. 'Lye's Unique' x 'Other Fellow'. Double Julie Marie H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Double Tabraham, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1976 Kirby, John, (UK) 1987 1976 was a hot summer and this is a hot beauty that flaunts itself shamelessly. Tube: Rose. Sepals: Bold pink. Corolla: Deep pink\purple. Foliage: Mid green. Pretty & versatile, free flowering, very slightly lax. Tube: Medium length, pale pink. Sepals: Slightly darker pink, greenish white tips. Corolla: Joan's Delight Slightly darker pink, ¾ flared. Foliage: Dark green. Single → Bush Fuchsias K - N → H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) 1977

Flowers freely, smallish flowers. The almost dwarf habit of this fuchsia makes it ideal for smaller containers, border or bed edges as well as quarter standards. Tube: Short, crimson. Sepals: Slightly recurved, crimson. Corolla: Neat, a lush violet blue. Foliage: Smallish leaves, mid green.

13 Bush K - N

Katie Laepines Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Thornley, Alf, (UK) Unknown 1962 Unknown

Naturally compact bush, short jointed, unusual flowers which vary in An exceedingly free flowering and attractive fuchsia. Ideal for containers shape and size somewhat. Tube: Smoky pink. Sepals: White with pink or bedding. Rare, and beautiful in its simplicity. Sometimes offered as edges and green tips, held horizontally. Corolla: Pale rose-pink, up to 'Leapines' and if anyone knows which is correct we's love to hear from half flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. you. Tube: Waxy creamy white. Sepals: Creamy white with faint tinge of green at tips. Held slightly down from the horizontal with very slightly Katjan recurved tips. Corolla: Rose red tinted with orange. Foliage: Mid green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lancashire Lass Carless, Howard, (UK) Single 1998 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Sinton, (UK)

Very pretty fuchsia, distinctive habit with long arching stems. Makes a 1986 first-rate small standard. Profuse small single flowers. Tube: Rich red. Sepals: Red, slim & pointy. Corolla: Deep red aubergine. Foliage: Mid green slightly narrowish leaves. Short jointed and self branching with outward and upward looking flowers. Tube: Very pale pink, short. Sepals: Very pale pink with green Kilili tips, held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: Opens hyacinth blue and matures lavender, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid Green. ('Estelle Marie' x Single 'Pennine'). H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Landgoed Hulshorst Strumper, Karl, (DE) Double 1996 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) van den Brink, (NL) A very free flowering and attractive fuchsia. Ideal for containers or bedding. Sometimes incorrectly offered as 'Kilily'. Tube: Pale rose. 2011 Sepals: Rose pink, held slightly down with some recurve. Corolla: Light NKvF R blue. Foliage: Mid green. Unusual flowers which keep opening until they look like they've Kocarde exploded. A very striking plant when in full flower. Tube: Deep rose pink. Sepals: Deep rose red. Corolla: Magenta-red, petals have Single serrated edges. Foliage: Mid to dark green. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Laura de Groot, J (NL) Single 1983 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Unknown An attractive flower in warm colours. Easy plant, free flowering, deserves to be more widely grown. Tube: Medium length, quite plump, 1986 orangey pink. Sepals: Medium length, fairly broad, pinkish red, held slightly down. Corolla: Orangey red, red veining. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: (Kwintet x Cardinal). Flowers lavishly producing a very bright and colourful exhibition. Tube: Pale orange pink. Sepals: Pale orange pink. Held horizontally with Lady Isobel Barnett recurved green tips. Corolla: Orange-pink at base through orange-red to orange-purple. Foliage: Mid green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Letty Lye Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) Single 1968 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lye, James, (UK)

An outstounding fuchsia, challenging to exhibit due to heavy pollen 1877 production. Carries huge numbers of flowers. Tube: Short, carmine rose red. Sepals: Carmine rose red, held horizontal and well recurved. Corolla: Pale purple, darker at edges of petals, pink veins. Foliage: Mid A classic Lye cultivar with pale tube and sepals, purplish corolla, green. vigorous and ideal for training as a standard or pillar. Tube: Slim, pinkish white. Sepals: Pinkish white, held horizontally, tips slightly recurved. Corolla: Pinkish purple. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: (Arabella Improved x James Lye)

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Lilian Little Witch Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Johns, Eric, (UK) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) 2000 1989 NKvF AM A truly lovely fuchsia. The anthers are deep red which contrasts Flowering freely, this child of 'Venus Victrix' has each perfect little beautifullt with the pastel shades of the flower. Makes a good ¼ or ½ bloom gracefully displayed on a long pedicel. Quite enchanting and standard. Tube: White flushed pink. Sepals: White flushed pink. should be good for bonsai. Tube: Small, slim, and pale pink (62C). Corolla: Pale pink\lilac. Foliage: Mid Green. Sepals: Tiny little narrow things, pale pink (62D) on the upper surface, purplish rose\rose (68B\C) on the lower surface with green recurved tips Lillian Annetts held ½ up, tips recurved. Corolla: Opens violet (84B), lighter at base maturing to light violet (84B\C), lighter at base with smooth petal edges. Double ¼ flared, smooth overlapping petals. Foliage: Dark green. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Loeky Clark, Dave, (UK) Single 1993 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Very successful show cultivar. The weight of the many flowers tends to cause the branches to arch downwards, making this useful for hanging 1985 baskets as well as containers. Tube: White with pink candy stripes, VKC AM short. Sepals: White with green tips, held ½ up when mature. Corolla: Blue with white and pink towards centre and base of petals. Foliage: Flowers profusely, good for small to medium standards and gives a Mid green. lovely display. Tube: Bright mid rose red. Sepals: Bright mid rose red, folding well back as they mature. Corolla: Pretty pink with red veins Lindisfarne towards the base. Matures fully flared. Foliage: Rich green. Single London 2000 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Ryle\Atkinson, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1974 Heavens, Paul, (UK) 2000 An exceedingly free flowering and attractive fuchsia. Ideal for containers or bedding. Eye-catching with its bold colours. Tube: Creamy white with pink tinge and striping. Sepals: Creamy white with a faint tinge of green A very vigorous fuchsia with a strong upright growth habit, particularly at tips. Held horizontal with very slightly recurved tips. Corolla: Deep suitable for pots and containers. Easy to train, makes superb fans and Blueish purple maturing to violet purple. Petals are pink at the base and small or half standards. Tube: White, short. Sepals: White, held ½ up have pink and red veins. Foliage: Mid green. and recurved. Corolla: Cyclamen-purple, maturing cerise. ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Lionel London Eye Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Morris, (UK) Waving, Pete, (UK) 1998 2006

A charming cultivar that works well in containers or the front of borders. Has small flowers, would make a superb bonsai. Tube: White. Sepals: A delectable cultivar that is self branching with short joints. Flowers White with green tips. Held half down with very slightly recurved tips. profusely over a long period. Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Pale pink through Corolla: Light mauve. Pale pink at base. Foliage: Mid green, very small rose with apple green tip. Held slightly down with very slightly recurved leaves. tips. Corolla: Blue-purple, pink at base with rose veins. Foliage: Mid green. Little Fellow Lustre Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Field, Soo Yun, (US) Bull, (UK) 1973 1868

Wide flowers (5cm (2") measured across the sepals), but they still look small. This is a super little plant that's easy to grow. Tube: Fairly short, Lustre is a first class fuchsia. Easy and floriferous. Tube: Fairly long plump and rounded, in red (45A). Sepals: Held horizontally, dark pink and slim, creamy white. Sepals: Waxy cream, held ½ up. Corolla: red (52A). Corolla: Purple pink (N74B), ¼ flared. Foliage: Dark green. Folded petals of warm orangey pink mature flat. Foliage: Mid green.

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Lydia Maria Landy Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) van den Brink, (NL) Wilkinson, M, (UK) 2006 1991 NKvF R Not easy to come by but really should be more widely available as it is Classic beauty, easy to grow, compact, self branching and short jointed. a real beauty. Easy to grow, short jointed and self branching upright Tube: Pale pink with darker pink stripes, short. Sepals: Palest pink bush. Tube: White, pale green stripes. Sepals: White with green tips, through white to green tips on top, white with palest green tips held fully up when mature. Corolla: Reddish purple, pale at opening underneath. Held horizontal with recurve. Corolla: Pale violet blue with darker when mature. ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: 'Estelle darker picotee edges, matures pale violet with darker picotee edges. Marie' x unknown. Foliage: On the pale side of mid green.

Lye's Elegance Martin's Double Delicate Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lye, James, (UK) Beije, Martin, (NL) 1844 1998

One of Mr Lye's many superb cultivars, well named. Tube: A pretty double with delicate lavender flowers. Tube: Light red. Sepals: Proportionately long, slim, creamy white. Sepals: Waxy cream, held Light red, held fully up, greenish reflexed tips. Corolla: Double, pale horizontally. Corolla: Rich cerise, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green. lavender. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: (Eden's Delight x Impudence)

Lye's Unique Martyn Smedley Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lye, James, (UK) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) 1886 1968 RHS AGM A very free-flowering, vigorous, stiffly upright bush cultivar. Excellent for A superb free flowering plant with large bright flowers. Tube: Waxy full standards, columns\pillars, fans and large displays. Very highly white, faint pink stripes. Sepals: Upper rose pink (62A), lower, slightly recommended. Tube: Crisp white. Sepals: Bright waxy white. Held darker (62B), held half down, tips recurved. Corolla: Unflared, pinkish horizontally when mature, very slightly recurved tips. Corolla: Salmon lavender blue. Foliage: Deep olive green ( 146A ), reddish veins. coral red. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: (Upward Look x Bon Accorde)

Lynne Patricia Mauve Beauty Double Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Swaby, Alan, (UK) Banks, Edward, (UK) 2007 1869

A superb garden, container and exhibition cultivar that is short jointed, A very pretty double in soft mauve and pinkish red. Tube: self branching and vigorous as well as very beautiful. Tube: Rose pink, Proportionately short and slim, pinkish red. Sepals: Quite long, pinkish short. Sepals: White with rose pink streaks and pale green tips, held ½ red, held half up, tips recurved. Corolla: Very full, lilac mauve with pink up and recurved. Corolla: White with slight lilac tinge, bold rose veins streaks. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: (Unknown) and streaks from base of petals, ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green with a hint of lime. Mazda Margaret Pilkington Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Reiter, (US) Clark, Dave, (UK) 1947 1984 Hot, glowing colours on a vigorous bush. Needs early pinching. Tube: Short, rather bulbous, orangey pink. Sepals: Held half up, tips recurved, A generously free flowering, vigorous, stiffly upright bush cultivar. orangey pink. Corolla: Vivid pinkish orange, paler at base, dark pink Beautiful flowers. Superb fuchsia. Tube: White with rose stripes. veins, ¾ flared. Foliage: Dark green. Sepals: White with rose veins. Held ¼ down with strong recurve. Corolla: Violet to purple. Foliage: Mid green.

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Melanie Minnesota Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Haslinger, (DE) Garson, Gordon, (US) 1987 1938

A classic fuchsia flower in deep colours which display beautifully Attractive flowers, freely produced. The colours combine beautifully in against the lighter foliage. Tube: Dark red, short. Sepals: Dark red, held this classic cultivar, one of relatively few introduced during the second horizontal and recurved. Corolla: Very dark aubergine navy blue. ½ world war. that deserves to be more widely grown. Tube: Medium flared when mature. Foliage: Lightish mid green. length, barrel shaped, creamy white with a trace of pink. Sepals: Held horizontally, greenish tips recurved, upper surface same colour as tube, Mersty lower is slightly darker. Corolla: Smooth broad & shallow petals, little or no flare, opening soft lavender purple with rich pink veins and a patch or Double carmine at the base, maturing to an overall more magenta shade. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Foliage: Mid green. Phillips, Nancy, (US) Mistoque 2012 Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) A pale and lovely flower that doesn't like full sun. Needs and is worth Orton, S, (UK) careful deadheading, as the dead stalks tend to hang on. Named after Nancy Phillip's mother, whose nickname is "Mersty". Tube: Greenish 1978 white, faintly striped, just over 25mm (1") long, 8mm wide. Sepals: Held half up, twisted, 4cm (1 ½") long, upper creamy white, lower surface has a purple red flush at the base. Pronounced green, recurved tips. Elegant and shapely flowers in cool white and misty lilac blue. What's Corolla: Almost unflared, a mix of long and short pale violet (N82D) not to like? Tube: Long, slim and white. Sepals: Proportionately long petals, dark pink (N80D) veins. Foliage: Yellowish green (145A), red and slim, white, with a trace of pink, held almost fully up, greenish tips. stems. Corolla: Virtually unflared, long, slim petals, in misty lilac blue, paler at the base. Foliage: Mid green. Micky Goult Moorland Beauty Single Semi Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Roe, G, (UK) Pugh, (UK) 1981 1975 RHS AGM Superb summer bedding and exhibition fuchsia. Medium abundant flowers held facing outwards. Tube: White with light pink flush, short. Free-flowering, naturally upright and self branching bushy grower. Tube: Sepals: Pink turning to paler pink and green at the tips. Corolla: Violet Pale rose pink with darker stripes. Sepals: Pale rose pink darker rose ageing to lilac. Foliage: Medium green, lush. towards tube end, green tips. Held ½ up. Corolla: Violet blue changing to pink at base of petals, maturing to purple-red. Foliage: Mid green. Mini Napoléon Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Castro, (US) Meillez, (FR) 1969 1846

Stiffly upright bush fuchsia bearing numerous brightly coloured blooms. Makes good standards and fans etc. Ideal pot and container plant, or About 40cm tall, free flowering, and easy to grow, gives a great display. summer bedding. Tube: White and rose pink, long. Sepals: Rose pink Tube: Fairly short, bulbous, pinkish white. Sepals: Medium length & and white, held ½ down and very slightly reflexed. Corolla: Rose red width, white with a touch of pink at the base and green tips, held with purple overtones, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid Green. horizontally. Corolla: Smooth petals, ¼ flared, pinkish violet, pale patch at petal base. Foliage: Mid green Mini Rose Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) 1985

Ideal cultivar for smaller containers and for producing small standards. Very easy to grow and beautiful. Tube: Creamy-white with red blush. Small. Sepals: White with red blush at the base then white. Held horizontally with slight recurve towards tips. Corolla: Red-purple with light rose-red base. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. 17 Bush K - N

Natasha Lynn Ocean Beach Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Swaby, Alan, (UK) Krogh, Chad, (US) 2010 1975

Easy fuchsia which is very rewarding in terms of flower power, a superb A free flowering, free branching plant, the bright flowers contrasting display. Tube: Rose pink with darker stripes. Sepals: Rose pink through nicely with the dark foliage. A real beauty. Tube: Proportionately long, white to pale green tips, held ½ up and slightly reflexed. Corolla: Violet- pale salmon, slightly barrel shaped. Sepals: Medium length, held blue with rose pink base and veins, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: horizontally, greenish tips only slightly recurved. Soft salmon upper, Darkish green. slightly darker below. Corolla: Short petals in orangey salmon, opening pleated, then smoothing out, ¼ flared. Anthers can stick out through the Nathan Rhys petals, or twist inwards. Foliage: Darkish green. Single Oddfellow H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Double Garcia, Sid, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 2011 Dyos, Alan, (UK) 1982 Free-flowering compact bush fuchsia, this photo doesn't do it justice. Tube: Rose, short. Sepals: Rose with pale pink tips, held ½ down with slight recurve at tips. Corolla: Opens deep lavender blue, matures A cracking little fuchsia, branching well and flowering busily, with very lavender-violet. Little or no flare. Foliage: Mid green. 'Frank Saunders' x little effort on your part. Chosen by, and named for the Independent 'Lillian Annetts'. Order of Oddfellows to carry their name. Possible hardiness, on top of its other merits. Tube: Fairly short and stout, pale reddish pink. Sepals: Nettala Short and broad, pale reddish pink, paling towards a greenish white tip, held slightly down and reflexed. Corolla: White petals, beautifully neat Single shape. Foliage: Small, neat leaves, fairly dark green. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Olive Moon Francesca, (US) Single 1973 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Tite, (UK) A sport from 'Chang'. Unusual single flowers produced freely, a fuchsia as good as Chang with different flowers. Tube: Short, deep red. Sepals: 1987 Deep red. Shiny. Corolla: Red\violet. Glows. Foliage: Dark green.

Subtly endearing flower colour and shape, a really attractive fuchsia Northern Pride surprisingly uncommon. Tube: White with pink flush, short. Sepals: White with pink flush, held horizontally with some recurve. Corolla: Double White with pink blush and pink veins towards base of petals, ¾ flared H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Ryle, (UK) Olympia 1979 Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Very free-flowering good for containers and training into standards, fans Rozaine-Boucharlet, (FR) etc. Tube: Pink, short. Sepals: Rose pink with green tips, held fully up with tips recurved when mature. Corolla: Dark fuchsia pink with purple 1913 petal edges, fully flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

→ Bush Fuchsias O - R → Naturally self branching and short jointed fuchsia with beautifully coloured blooms that have some natural variation which is very attractive. Tube: Pale pink with rose pink stripes. Sepals: Pale rose pink, held horizontally. Corolla: Persian rose fading to palest pink at base of petals, magenta petal edges, rose pink veining. ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

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Olympic Sunset Pabbe's Belle Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Wood\Gibbs, (US) Koerts, Tielko, (NL) 1995 2004

Flowers madly, giving a spectacular display. Makes an impact whether Unusual bell shaped flowers generously borne, very attractive fuchsia in containers, beds or borders. Tube: Purple to purple-red. Sepals: for containers that will always excite comment. Tube: Creamy white with Purple to purple-red. Held horizontally with recurve. Corolla: Purple-red very slight pale pink blush. Sepals: White with pink blush through pink to aubergine-red. Foliage: Mid green slightly narrowish leaves. to green tips, held horizontally or slightly down with small recurve towards tips. Corolla: Lavender with violet edges to the petals, bell Oostveens Thymen shaped. Foliage: Mid green. Single & Semi Double Pabbe's Kirrevaalk H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Sigrid van Schaik, (NL) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 2011 Koerts, Tielko, (NL) NKvF R 2003 Eye-catching and floriferous cultivar. Bears single and semi double blooms. Tube: Creamy white with pink stripes, rose pink at join with sepals. Sepals: Rose pink through white to tiny pale green tips. Held Flowers bountifully with saucer shaped flowers in clusters of three, fully up with slight recurve when mature. Corolla: Violet and blue, paler giving an eye-catching show. Tube: Dark reddish purple. Sepals: Dark at base of petals. ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. reddish purple. Horizontally held. Corolla: Dark purple maturing to dark reddish purple. Foliage: Dark green. Parentage: (Bon Accord x White Orange Crush Knight's Amethyst) x Prince Syray. Single Pabbe's Klompnoagel H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Handley, Enid, (UK) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) 1972 Koerts, Tielko, (NL) 2005 Short jointed growth and abundant blooms, can produce amazing specimen plants with careful pinching but is stunning left to it's own devices. Withstands full sun with ease. Tube: Salmon\orange\pink. Abundant producer of medium sized long tubed unusual flowers with Sepals: Slim, cream with salmon-orange blush. Held horizontal with some natural variation. Gorgeous. Tube: Long, pink through white. strong recurve. Corolla: Orange, paler at base. Foliage: Pale to mid Sepals: White, greenish tips. Corolla: Pink rose. Foliage: Green, lush, green. and fairly dense.

Other Fellow Pabbe's Siddeltop Single Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Hazard, (US) Koerts, Tielko, (NL) 1946 1995 VKC AM For us, the most tasteful and elegant of all. A self deadheading show Pabbe's Siddletop is a tall, upright and self branching fuchsia bearing bench classic, water carefully, a great pleasure to grow. Tube: Medium, brightly coloured and unusual single flowers. Tube: Cream flushed pink, White. Sepals: Medium length, white, recurved, tipped apple green. fairly short and thick. Sepals: Cream with pink flush and veins on top, Corolla: Petals white at base leading to a lovely coral pink, slightly rose pink tipped with yellowy green underneath. Held horizontally with flared. Foliage: Small finely serrated glossy leaves, mid green. Bishops slight recurve. Corolla: Pale purple with violet at base maturing pale Bells x Strawberry Delight. magenta, paler still at base, between ¼ and ½ flared with folded, slightly crinkly petals. Foliage: Dark green leaves paler underneath. Our Hilary Parentage: Thalia x (F. crassistipula x F. fulgens grandiflora). Single Party Frock H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Semi Double Dodman, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 2008 Waltz, Muriel, (US) 1953 Cracking show bench cultivar, easy to shape and flowers very generously. Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Pale pink. Corolla: Pale pink with deeper pink picotee edges. Foliage: Mid green. Strong upright grower, self branching, bushy fuchsia that is well named, we think. Tube: Bold rose pink. Sepals: Bold rose pink, long and curling with green tips, held fully up. Corolla: Pale pastel blue with rose pink splashes. Foliage: Mid green. 19 Bush O - R

Pearly Queen Pigglemee Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Dyos, (UK) Krom, (NL) 1980 2005

Medium to large flowers, boldly coloured and produced freely. Tube: Growth is wiry and stiffly upright, dark colours are strikingly bold. May Red. Sepals: Rose red. Horizontally held, slight reflex. Corolla: Pale make a good half standard. Tube: Reddish-purple. Sepals: Reddish- rose & light blue with red veins. Foliage: Mid green. purple, held fully up when mature and recurved. Corolla: Dark reddish- purple, no flare. Foliage: Mid green with dark red veining. Peasholm Pink Fantasia Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Edmund, Dave, (UK) Webb, (UK) 2011 1989 RHS AGM Very attractive and floriferous cultivar, grows to 18-25 inches (45-62cm) tall and has a neat short jointed self branching habit. Tube: Red, short. Very showy plant that holds its flowers out and up giving an exceedingly Sepals: Red, held fully up and recurved. Corolla: White with red veining, colourful display. Tube: Rose pink. Short. Sepals: Dark reddish purple. ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Horizontally held and reflexed. Corolla: Violet fading to white and then rose at base. Foliage: Mid green. Pennine Pink Sprite Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Mitchinson, (UK) Swaby, Alan, (UK) 1979 2011

Naturally self branching bushy grower. Colours best in semi-shade. Tube: White. Sepals: White with hint of rose. Corolla: Violet-blue, ½ to Elegant and unusual flower shape and clean colours, makes a nice ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid Green. 'Norman Mitchinson' x 'Eden shapely bush fuchsia. Tube: White. Sepals: White with green tips, held Lady'. fully up and recurved at the tips, twisty. Corolla: Magenta with white streaks, ½ flared. Foliage: Dark green. Parentage; 'London 2000' x Peter Meredith 'seedling of ('Baby Bright' x 'Zulu King') x 'Carla Johnson'. Single Pirbright H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Reynolds, Gordon, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 2008 Roe, G, (UK) 1982 An absolute cracker with abundant stiffly held flowers. Tube: White with apple green tinge & stripes. Sepals: White with pink blush fading to apple green blush at tips. Horizontally held with slight recurve at tips. Pirbright is a compact, dense growing, self branching upright bush Corolla: Peach pink with bolder pink picotee edges. Foliage: Mid green. bearing neat little pink and rose-magenta single flowers. Tube: White striped carmine pink, proportionately medium length. Sepals: White with Petit Four faint carmine pink blush on top, stronger blush underneath, held horizontally with very slight reflex. Corolla: Rose magenta with peachy- Single pink veining, ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: Glyn Jones x H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Santa Barbara. de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Poppet 1992 Single VKC AM H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Lots of neat single flowers, a charming fuchsia with a boldly coloured Holmes, Ron, (UK) and open display. Tube: Pink blushed aubergine. Sepals: Pink blushed aubergine tipped pale green. Corolla: Rich dark aubergine. Foliage: Mid 1983 green. Habit: Bush with a fairly stiff upright growth.

Happiest when grown in full sun, another well named fuchsia. Tube: Deep carmine red, short and curvy. Sepals: Carmine red on top, slightly lighter underneath, green tips. Held horizontally with slight reflex. Corolla: Rose pink with raspberry veining and edges, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Seedling from 'Beacon'.

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Prestonfield Reverend Frank Pagden Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Cathcart, Andrew, (UK) Swaby, Alan, (UK) 1971 2011

One of the most attractive variegated fuchsias we've seen, beautiful Very attractive eye catching and beautiful fuchsia with exhibition lime green leaves with lemon green edges provide a delightful backdrop potential. Tube: Rose. Sepals: Rose with green tips, held horizontally for the medium sized, carmine red, white and lavender flowers. Tube: and reflexed. Corolla: Opens violet blue with red veining, matures pale White with bold carmine red candy stripes, short. Sepals: Mainly white purple-violet, ¼ flared. Foliage: Dark green. 'Anna Louise' x 'Frau Hilde with some carmine red striping, held horizontally with slight reflex. Rademacher'. Corolla: Lavender with pink veins, stains and splashes, ¼ flared. Foliage: Lime green leaves with lemon green edges. Riverdancer Claire Single Queen Ester H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Koerts, Tielko, (NL) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 2006 Delta Farm Nursery, (US)

2000 Copious amounts of small to medium sized single flowers, fully flared and making a superb display. An unusual and appealing fuchsia. Tube: Short, red. Sepals: Red with some pink. Corolla: Veined violet rose. Produces lots of flowers in regular and frequent flushes. We like it a lot. Foliage: Mid green. Tube: Creamy white, short. Sepals: Creamy white with pale green tips, held ¼ down with tiny recurve at tips. Corolla: Violet with white splashes Roesse Aristilius from the base of the petals where there is also some raspberry veining. Little or no flare. Foliage: Mid green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Regal Roes, (NL) Single 2007 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Horton, (US) Attractive and free flowering, with tall arching stems laden with fully 1948 flared blooms, Roesse Aristilius is a tempting addition to any collection. Tube: Light magenta, short. Sepals: Magenta, held fully up and slightly recurved hiding the tube completely. Corolla: Purple red, fully and Big & bold in every way, Regal grows vigorously & rapidly upright widely flared. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Parentage: Roesse Lupus x making a large, several feet high plant, great for impressive containers Reg Gubler. or growing up through other shrubs. Produces ample brightly coloured large flowers, early until late season. Tube: Rose-madder, fairly long, Roger de Cooker straight. Sepals: Rose-madder, held ¾ up and recurved. Corolla: Rose- madder, long and only slightly flared. Foliage: Dark green with lighter Single veins and stems. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Remember Carole Anne de Cooker, Mario, (NL) Double 1999 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Swaby, Alan, (UK) An unusual triphylla type fuchsia that flowers profusely. Mario recommends not planting this one in too big a pot because of a 2011 'relatively weak root system'. He also says 'Best as bush, but also tree is possible'. Tube: Long, mainly white with pink blushes. Sepals: White shading gradually to rose pink then apple green at tips. Corolla: Bold Flowers bountifully, a useful exhibition fuchsia that regularly takes rose pink gradually fading to pale pink at base of petals. Lovely. prizes. Tube: White. Sepals: White with green tips. Corolla: Purple with Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: Pangea x (Elsie Mitchell'x F. large splashes or streaks of rose pink, fully flared. Foliage: Mid green. magellanica Alba) x (Checkerboard x Machu Picchu) x Pangea. (Around 10-20% triphylla genes in this one).

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Rohees Matar Scarisbrick Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Roes, B & Heesakkers, C (NL) Bright, (UK) 1985 2011 Botanical Award, VKC Holland, 1985 A strikingly attractive fuchsia with unusual bright magenta double A fairly new fuchsia cultivar which flowers very freely and has a dense flowers borne abundantly. Eye-catching and easy to grow. Tube: vigorous habit. Tube: White with very pale pink flush. Sepals: White Magenta, thicker at ovary end then curves attractively inwards and back with pink blush towards tube and green tips, held horizontal with slight out again towards sepal base. Sepals: Magenta, broad and held reflex. Corolla: White with slight pink veining towards base of petals. ½ horizontally or slightly above, with recurve at extreme tips, tiny yellow flared when mature. Foliage: Mid to darkish green. green tips. Corolla: Magenta, tightly furled wavy edged crinkly petals, ¼ to ½ flared. Foliage: Darkish mid green with paler veins and stems. Selma Lavrijsen Parentage: WALZ Mandolin x (Gruss aus dem Bodenthal x Rohees Alrami). Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Ron's Pet van Eijk, (NL) Single 2005 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Holmes, Ron, (UK) Freely flowering, medium sized single flowers. Ideal bedding and 1973 container upright. Gorgeous flowers. Tube: Short and red. Sepals: Red, when flower is mature folded right back against tube. Corolla: Purple red, fully flared and when mature held horizontally. Foliage: Mid green, Small compact neat fuchsia with smallish flowers abundantly produced. lush. Tube: White, short. Sepals: White with green tips, held horizontal with slight recurve. Corolla: Pink with a hint of salmon and darker picotee Shelford edges. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Single Roselynne H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Roe, G, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1986 Swaby, Alan, (UK)

2008 Beautiful classic fuchsia, has got what it takes on the show bench. Fantastic garden plant too. Tube: Short, baby pink with darker stripes. Sepals: Long and slim. Baby pink shading through white to apple green Naturally short jointed and self branching fuchsia, flowers very freely. tips. Held horizontal with full recurve. Corolla: White with partial pink Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Pale pink with green tips, held ¼ up and veining at base. Foliage: Mid to dark green. reflexed. Corolla: Pale lavender, ½ flared. Foliage: Pale green. Silver Dawn ↓ Bush Fuchsias S - Z ↓ Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Bellamy, (UK) 1983

Beautiful colour variations and compact neat flowers. A superb and very floriferous fuchsia. Tube: White, longish. Sepals: White tipped with green, held slightly above horizontally when mature. Corolla: Opens a Samantha Reynolds beautiful shade of periwinkle blue and matures to bold electric indigo. ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Sleigh Bells Reynolds, Gordon, (UK) Single 1989 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Schnabel, (US) Flowers face outwards and slightly down, an attractive fuchsia whose 1954 parentage we'd like to know as she's lovely. Tube: Creamy white, slim and fairly short. Sepals: Creamy white with very pale pink blush on top, fuchsia pink blush underneath, green tips. Held half up and recurved. Has very stiff growth and looks better if carefully pinched out during Corolla: Violet-blue with purple veining on opening, maturing violet-rose, early growth. Tube: White. Sepals: White with apple green tips. Corolla: petals paler towards base. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. White with wispy pale pink veins, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green.

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Softpink Jubelteen Sue Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Michiels\Wagemans, (BE) Holmes, Ron, (UK) 2002 1986 Certificate N.B.F.K. at Meise WALZ Jubelteen with attitude, considerable variation in flower colour Bushy and self branching, boldly coloured flowers display well against depending on whether grown in shade or full sun. Tube: Palest pink with foliage. Easy, reliable, free flowering repeated over a long period. Tube: slightly darker stripes. Sepals: Palest pink through white to green tips Cerise red. Sepals: Cerise red. Corolla: Red and orange. Foliage: Mid on top, palest pink with green tips underneath. Held half down with to dark green. slight recurve. Corolla: Pale pink, darker at picotee edges, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Summerdaffodil Sophie Grace Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Swaby, Alan, (UK) 2008 2011 Award of Merit, VKC Aalsmeer Lots of medium sized single flowers in a very appealing shape. Can be difficult to overwinter. Tube: Medium length, white with rose-pink blush. Short jointed upright bush. Generously produces medium sized flowers, Sepals: Slim, white with rose-pink overtones and tips tinged with green. a very rewarding fuchsia. Tube: Rose. Sepals: Rose through white to Corolla: Pale lilac-rose pink. Shaped like a daffodil's trumpet. Foliage: green tips, held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: Violet-blue, ¼ flared when Mid green longish slim tapered leaves. mature. Foliage: Dark green. Parentage: Anna Louise x Natasha Lynn. Sunbeam Hillary Sophie Louise Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Gotz, Wolfram, (DE) Wilkinson, M, (UK) 2003 1998 A vigorous bush fuchsia bearing medium to large flowers very geneously. Tube: Short greenish white. Sepals: White fading to pink. Compact slightly lax bush fuchsia with lots of small and very beautiful Corolla: Palest lavender. Foliage: Mid green. flowers. Tube: Palest pink, short. Sepals: Palest pink, fairly long, held slightly up and recurved. Corolla: Blue violet, ¼ flared when mature. Sunray Foliage: Light mid green. Single Stan H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Rudd, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1872 Giesen, (NL)

2002 Not the same as Tom West which is often wrongly sold as Sunray. Medium sized single compact flowers. Happily copes with a sunny position. Grown and prized for it's superb foliage. Tube: Short, red. Compact bush ideal for smaller containers, very pretty. Tube: Pale rose, Sepals: Red, paler on top, deeper underneath. Held slightly down with shortish. Sepals: Pale rose with green tips, held horizontal with slight slight recurve at tips. Corolla: Mauve, darker at outer edges of petals. recurve. Corolla: White with purple tinge and purple picotee edged Foliage: Silvery light green and cream, variegated, red blushed. petals. ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Sunshine Stardust Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Niederholzer, (US) Handley, Enid, (UK) 1948 1973

Now here's a fuchsia to make you happy when skies are grey. Stiff upright growth, ideal for training into standards and fans etc. Looks Gorgeous and abundant medium sized bright rose and carmine pink good in tall slender containers too, as well as being a superb bedding single flowers, truly lovely. Tube: White flushed pink with pink candy fuchsia. Tube: Salmon pink, slender. Sepals: Salmon pinky-orange, stripes. Sepals: White and bright rose pink with apple green tips, held held slightly down and recurved when mature. Corolla: Crimson edges slightly below horizontal and recurved towards tips. Corolla: Rose pink blending through pink to pale orange at the base of the petals. ¼ flared with darker picotee petal edges. ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green. when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

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Susan Green The Doctor Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Caunt, Jack, (UK) Castle Nurseries, (UK) 1981 1930

Susan Green is a naturally bushy grower freely bearing pale pink and Good bright colours is the first and lasting impression given by The rose pink flowers, is happy in sun as long as the roots are shaded, and Doctor. Capable of being a fine bush or standard and easy to grow, this is easy to grow. Tube: White with pale pink flush. Sepals: White with old favourite always gives good value. Tube: White with fleshy pink pale pink shades, held horizonally, recurved and slightly twisty. Corolla: lines, longish and slender. Sepals: White washed with deep rose pink, Rose Pink, no flare. Foliage: Mid green. darker underneath, white and green tips. Held horizontally and straight. Corolla: Salmony pink, ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Swanley Beauty Tom Knights Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lye, James, (UK) Goulding, Edwin, (UK) 1875 1983

Generously bears lovely medium sized, soft pink and white single flowers. Tube: Waxy white with cream blush. Sepals: White with faint A show bench favourite, great for bedding and superb in pots and patio pink tinge which is darker towards the slightly reflexed tips. Corolla: Soft containers. Tube: White. Sepals: White with very slight pink blush. Held pink, between ¼ and ½ flared. Foliage: Medium green with pale green slightly up and recurved. Corolla: Lavender blue. ¼ flared. Foliage: Light veins and stems. to medium green.

Swanley Yellow Turkish Delight Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Cannell, H, (UK) Sinton, (UK) 1900 2002

Has no trace of yellow whatsoever, other than that it is a lovely free Bushy growth, covers itself in flowers, it's difficult not to love this flowering beauty, bearing lots of medium sized flowers. Tube: Orangey fuchsia. Tube: Pale pink, short. Sepals: Cerise, getting paler towards pink, proportionately long. Sepals: Orange pink with tiny apple green the green tips, held ¾ up and fully recurved. Corolla: Iris blue shaded tips, held horizontally, recurved. Corolla: Orange vermilion, ¼ flared. with plum, cerise veining. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish mid Foliage: Lightish mid green. green.

Szilvia Ocsai Twinkling Stars Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Michiels, Marcel, (BE) Handley, Enid, (UK) 2000 1976

A strong upright growing, self branching, free flowering fuchsia, bears The twinkle in this little star is that the flowers frequently carry five oodles of medium sized, bright, refreshing flowers. Tube: Mainly white, sepals, giving a proper star shape. Nice. Tube: Pink, short. Sepals: occasional pale purple streaks, fairly short and slender. Sepals: White Pale rosy pink on top, slightly deeper shade of rosy pink underneath, with purple-pink edges and streaks. Held between horizontal and half green tips. Held horizontally and recurved towards tip. Corolla: Fuchsia up, recurved with green tips. Corolla: Very pale purple maturing pink, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. extremely pale lavender. ¼ flared. Foliage: Dark green with reddish veins and stems. Parentage: Rosella x Rosa Pummelchen. Ullswater Thamar Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Travis, James, (UK) Springer, (UK) 1958 1987 Upright and bushy fuchsia with bounteous medium\large flowers. Tube: White. Sepals: White with green tips, held slightly up from horizontal Exceedingly free-flowering self branching fuchsia, tolerates full sun. with slight recurve at tips. Corolla: Orchid-blue maturing orchid-purple. Strong and vigorous. Tube: White with green flush. Sepals: White with Foliage: Mid green. pink flush and apple green tips, held ¼ down. Corolla: Light violet fading light purple and to white at the base with white splashing from the base. Foliage: Medium green. 24 Bush S - Z

Ville de Paris WALZ Toeter Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Masse, (FR) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 1993 1987 NKvF AM Makes a nice ¼ or ½ standard fuchsia as well as being superb in a pot Covers itself in flowers and keeps on doing so. A truly lovely fuchsia. or border. Produces so many flowers and is so easy to grow we can Tube: Deep rose, long slender and tapering. Sepals: Deep rose, heartily recommend this one. Tube: Pale pink with faint stripes, longish. pronounced yellow-green tips, held ½ down. Corolla: Red, ¼ flared Sepals: Pale pink with green tips, slender and held slightly down and when mature. Foliage: Medium green, fairly large leaves. recurved. Corolla: Reddish purple, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. WALZ Trompet Waldis Gräfin Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) Dietrich, Waltraud, (DE) 1985 1997 Certificate of Honor, DCI Particularly unusual and easy to grow, with numerous large, long, brightly coloured and slightly weird flowers, it grabs the eye and few Waldis Grafin grows stiffly upright and carries numerous strikingly walk past it without being enticed by its curious charms. Tube: Claret coloured small to medium single flowers. Tube: Heliotrope with pink rose with occasional yellow stripes and yellow waist, proportionately overtone. Sepals: Heliotrope, held horizontally and generously very long and slender. Sepals: Claret rose with greeny yellow tips, held recurved. Corolla: Mauve lavender with small amount of plum ¼ up and reflexed at tips. Corolla: Light purple. no flare, petals curve in veining/streaks, up to 1/4 flared. Foliage: Mid to dark green. at edges. Foliage: Dark green on top, slightly lighter underneath with pale green veins. Parentage: [F. magdalenae x (Forgotten Dreams x WALZ Doedelzak unknown)] x Whiteknights Pearl. Single WALZ Tuba H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1987 Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) NKvF AM 1985 This fuchsia is fabulous, stunningly colourful and unusual medium sized Certificate of Honor, DCI flowers are rapidly and continuously produced until the frosts. Tube: Pink and red with yellow-green streaks, fairly thick and wide at ovary An easy to grow and unusual fuchsia, WALZ Tuba is vigorous and end and slim at sepal base end. Sepals: Red (52a) and dark rose pink bears many very long, brightly coloured flowers. Tube: Crimson, 2 ⅜" (55a) with large yellow-green (145a) tips which are recurved at the very long and slender. Sepals: Crimson, only slightly flared with green ends. Held horizontally when mature. Corolla: Purple with red overtone reflexed tips. Corolla: Tyrian Purple (61c), less than ¼ flared. Foliage: (74b), ½ to ¾ flared when mature, petals have wavy edges. Foliage: Dark green with lighter veins and stems. Parentage: [F. magdalenae x Darkish mid green with red veins and stems. Parentage: (F. (Forgotten Dreams x unknown)] x Whiteknights Pearl. magdalenae x F. fulgens var. rubra grandiflora) x Royal Purple. Water Nymph WALZ Jubelteen Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Story, (UK) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 1859 1990 RHS AGM and VKC AM Strongly upright and early flowering bush cultivar. Old but very beautiful in a classic fuchsia style, one of Nick's favourites. Often incorrectly Produces masses of medium sized single flowers over a long period. referred to as 'Waternymph' and sometimes 'Wassernymph'. Tube: Self branching, easy to grow, one of the all-time great cultivars. Flower: Creamy white, medium length. Sepals: Creamy white. Held horizontally Single. Tube: Short, white with faint pink lines. Sepals: White on top, with gentle recurve at tips. Corolla: Orange red. Foliage: Mid Green. underside light rose pink, tipped with green. Corolla: Bold rose pink. Foliage: Mid green.

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Waveney Queen White Joy Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Burns, D, (UK) Burns, D, (UK) 1974 1968

A very free-flowering, attractive and versatile fuchsia with delicate flower Beautiful bright medium sized flowers. Awarded Bronze Certificate of colouring. Tube: Creamy white with pink flush, short. Sepals: Pale pink Merit at the 1980 BFS London show and still an exhibition contender. fading to green tips, held horizontal when mature. Corolla: Pale baby Upright bushy growth makes an ideal garden plant. Tube: White with pink with darker pink veining, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. occasional very faint pink flush, short. Sepals: Bright white with occasional very pale pink blush on top, more pink underneath. Fairly broad sepals held horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: White, ¼ to Waveney Valley ½ flared. Foliage: Darkish mid green with paler veins and stems. Parentage: Joy Patmore x Eden Lady. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) White Queen Burns, D, (UK) Single 1984 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Doyle, (UK)

Easy low maintenance fuchsia, self deadheading, drops its flowers after 1899 maturing, so always looks clean and fresh. Excellent upright bushy habit, makes good half or full standards. Tube: Creamy white, short. Sepals: Creamy white on top, very pale pink underneath, apple green Clean white and coral rose flowers and sturdy vigorous growth, makes tips, held horizontally and fully recurved when mature. Corolla: an impressive display. Introduced in 1899, it is still popular. Tube: Waxy Lavender blue maturing to lavender pink, 1/2 flared when mature. white with very faint lemon blush. Sepals: Clean white with apple green Foliage: Lime green with slight yellow flecks. Parentage: Margaret Roe tips, held horizontal when mature, with slight recurve towards tips. x Eden Lady. Corolla: Orange at base blending to coral pink then rose at edges, ¼ flared. Foliage: Dark green with maroon veins and stems. Waveney Waltz Widnes Wonder Single/Semi Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Burns, D, (UK) Bright, Christine, (UK) 1982 1997

A popular exhibition fuchsia in its day, could still hold its own and is still popular due to its free flowering habit. Medium sized flowers. Tube: Small & compact plant with a neat upright habit, self branching and Baby pink, very short. Sepals: Baby pink, slightly paler towards the tips, easy to grow. Bears delightful little pink and violet flowers. Tube: White held almost horizontally and straight. Corolla: White with s small with fink flush, short. Sepals: White with pink flush on top, pink amount of baby pink veining, ¼ to ½ flared. Foliage: Mid to light green. underneath, held horizontally or slightly above and recurved towards the Parentage: Mrs Lawrence Lyons x Flirtation Walz. pale apple green tips. Corolla: Dark violet blue, maturing more purple, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Welsh Dragon Wilf Langton Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Baker, (UK) Evans, (UK) 1970 2001

A very pleasing, vigorous, bushy cultivar. Large flowers freely produced, a fuchsia that reminds me of my first mother-in-law who is Welsh and a Flowers very profusely, small to medium sized single flowers, a fuchsia lovely lady. I'm not brave enough to say more. Tube: Red, longish, cultivar with 'must have' written all over it. Tube: Short, white. Held slender with waist. Sepals: Crimson raspberry, broad, held horizontal horizontal and recurved. Sepals: White fading to pink. Corolla: Rich when mature. Corolla: Red-violet with magenta rose splashes from the purple on opening fading to pink lavender. Foliage: Mid green. base of petals. ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Winters Touch Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Fleming, (UK) 1996

Produces masses of medium sized flowers, crisp white with a touch of pink. A simple but stunning fuchsia. Tube: Medium length, pure white. Sepals: Pure white. Corolla: Pure white. Foliage: Mid\dark green. 26 Semi Trailing A - J

Alde Baby Chang Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Goulding, Edwin, (UK) Hazard, (US) 1988 1950

Variably pleated petals, ideal container fuchsia, good for summer Has a lazy, almost creeping habit, if you want a neat shape it will need bedding. Tube: Rose pink with orange tinge. Sepals: Pink with orange frequent pinching out - however we think it looks good left to its own tinge and green tips. Corolla: Apricot pink. Foliage: Mid to dark green. devices. Flowers freely. Petite little flowers. Tube: Short, orange\red. Sepals: Orange red, greenish tips. Corolla: Orange with greenish ends Aloha to petals. Foliage: Very small leaves, mid green. Single Beauty of Clyffe Hall H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Niederholzer, (US) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1947 Lye, James, (UK) 1881 A heat tolerant and early flowering fuchsia which flowers abundantly over a prolonged period. Tube: Bright pink. Sepals: Bright pink. Corolla: Purple. Foliage: Medium green with slightly lighter undersides. A very beautiful, strong growing, easy and reliable lax bush fuchsia. Ideal for the centrepiece of mixed containers. Tube: Creamy white with Annie den Otter pink overtones, medium length. Sepals: Waxy pale pink with pale green tips, held horizontally with reflexed tips. Corolla: Fuchsia pink, lighter at Single base and darker at edges, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Den Otter, (NL) Beauty of Exeter 1993 Semi Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Easy to grow, compact plant. Recommended for containers and Letheren, (FR) bedding. Tube: Apricot, long. Sepals: Apricot rose, held horizontally and reflexed. Corolla: Bright rose pink, ¾ flared. Foliage: Light lemony green. 1890

Awake Sweet Love Makes excellent large hanging basket displays. Large pendant flowers on weeping stems and if you can train one into a half standard it's Single amazing. Tube: Very pale rose pink, slim. Sepals: Pale salmon pink, H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) held horizontally and partially recurved. Corolla: Bold rose pink, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Yellowish mid green. de Cooker, Mario, (NL) 2011 Berba's Trio Single

Mario describes this: "Awake Sweet Love is a seedling originating from H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Roger de Cooker. It is a semi-trailing variety and has a soft light pink, Bats-Wesseling, (NL) triphylla-shaped flower. Best colour is obtained if grown in a light but shaded area. If protected from direct sunlight the flowers become even 1986 nearly white." He recommends not growing this as a standard, suggests best results are obtained from early cuttings, and advises 5 - 10 cuttings per basket or container. Asked whether this should be The flowers on this fuchsia can exhibit three variations in colour and are classified as a triphylla, he said: "I would not classify it as a triphylla produced freely. Not common. Prefers shade. Makes a very interesting hybrid". The name comes from The Firste Booke Of Songes. (No.19. and attractive hanging basket. Tube: Rose pink. Sepals: Rose red Awake, Sweet Love, Thou Art Return'd)) Tube: White with faint pink flushed pink, pink grooves, carmine underside, green tips. Held half up flushes, long. Sepals: White, sometimes extremely pale pink, tiny green with reflexed tips. Corolla: Variable, white with blue-purple markings tips, held ½ down. Corolla: Lavender-rose, ¼ flared when mature. which mature to red-purple, or white, or purple. Foliage: Mid green. Foliage: Mid green.

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Beverley Hills Burgundy Velvet Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Evans & Reeves, (US) Swaby, Alan, (UK) 1936 2005

A compact, gently arching, semi trailer, Beverley Hills has charming Stunning colours on these massed flowers. Superb container or basket blooms of pink and light purple opening from slender buds. Easy to fuchsia. Tube: Red-violet, short, waisted. Sepals: Red-violet, held deadhead. Tube: Light red pink (38D) with darker lines, 1.5 cm (¾“) horizontally and recurved. Corolla: Burgundy, ½ flared when mature. long. Sepals: Horizontal, but tips so strongly recurved that they almost Foliage: Mid green. touch the tube when mature. 3.5cm (1 ½”) long, upper surface, red pink (51D), lower surface, a paler red pink (49A), very pale green tips. Cecil Glass Corolla: About 2cm (¾") long. Purple red (N57A), slightly paler at the top, with smooth, overlapping petals, quarter flared when mature. Single Foliage: Dark green. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Black to the Future Lye, James, (UK) Semi Double 1887 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Unknown Cecil Glass is another of James Lye’s fuchsias, but this one is different from the strongly upright types with a pure white waxy tube that he is Unknown known for. This is a semi trailer, with the tube and reflexed sepals in pale pink. Gently ruffled carmine petals; a delightful heritage cultivar. Tube: Pale pink Sepals: Pale pink, held half down and strongly reflexed, Can anyone tell us this cultivar's true name or any other history? curving towards the petals. Corolla: Rich carmine pink. Foliage: Mid A fuchsia with an eye-catching and unusual colour combination, the green. striking flowers look lovely against the foliage. Fairly vigorous and is easy to grow, makes a superb large basket display. Tube: Red-violet, Chor Echo short. Sepals: Red-violet, held ½ up when mature with slight recurve towards tips. Corolla: Dark blue-black with fine blue edge to the petals Single and purple 'flames', ½ to ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid Green. H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Blue Satin Claes, Alfons, (BE) Double 1996 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Certificate of Merit, NBFK Walker, (US) A beautiful long tubed fuchsia with an attractive naturally trailing habit. Unusual and would be intriguing on the show bench. Tube: Rose. 1968 Sepals: Rose with green tips. Corolla: Dark rose with purple edges to the petals. Foliage: Mid green.

A lovely double flowered fuchsia capable of superb displays in hanging Coachman baskets. Tube: White and pale rose, short. Sepals: Rose pink through white to green tips. Held almost fully up and slightly recurved. Corolla: Single Pale violet-blue fading to white at base of petals. ¾ flared when mature. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Foliage: Mid green. Bright, (UK) Bow Bells 1910 Single RHS AGM H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Flowers freely over a long season. Suitable for bedding, baskets or Handley, Enid, (UK) containers, very useful and decorative fuchsia. Well defined clean bright colouring and easy growing makes this a popular old classic. 1972 Recommended. Tube: Pale salmon pink. Sepals: Pale salmon pink fading slightly towards the tips. Held slightly down from horizontal. Corolla: Intense orange red. Foliage: Medium green. Produces so much weight of flowers it may need a little support. Tube: White with faint pink candy stripes, short. Sepals: White tipped with Collingwood green, long, held ½ down with recurved tips. Corolla: Magenta\fuchsia pink, white at base of petals, bold magenta picotee edges to petals. Double Foliage: Mid green. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Niederholzer, (US) 1945

A softly pretty, lovely old semi trailer with large double flowers of baby pink. Tube: Medium, creamy white with a hint of pink. Sepals: Quite broad, pale pink, with apple green tips, held horizontally. Corolla: Ruffled double petals of soft pink. Foliage: Mid green.

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Dawn Star Dorothea Flower Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Bellamy, (UK) Thornley, Alf, (UK) 1985 1971

A truly gorgeous double flowered beauty with an elegant, slender, Free flowering lax growth makes excellent hanging basket displays. A waisted tube. Flower: Double, medium. Tube: White with faint pale pink real beauty and a much underrated fuchsia. Tube: White, pale green candy stripes. Sepals: White with modest pale rose pink blush on top, base. Sepals: White and pale pink veined, pale pink underside, pale slightly darker undersides. Held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: Pale green tips. Corolla: Rich lavender blue with pale pink base. Foliage: Mid lavender with slight pink overtones, faint pink veining and white and green. pink base. Foliage: Mid to darkish green. Earl of Beaconsfield DebRon's White Linen Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Laing, A.P, (UK) Monnier, Debbie & Ron, (US) 1878 2012

Elegant fuchsia, freely produces medium small single flowers. Does not A truly sumptuous giant double from the Monniers, but without any produce seed and isn't too keen on rain and wind. Also known as Earl coarseness; it is a refined and beautiful flower. The mass of white of Beconsfield. Tube: Medium long, salmon pink. Sepals: Salmon pink petals, viewed from below, looks rather like a lacy tablecloth. Our fading to pale green tip. Corolla: Salmon orange. Foliage: Mid green. current photo really doesn’t do the plant justice. This one needs to be sheltered from the excesses of wind, rain and sun. The blooms (which are freely produced on a healthy plant) tend to bruise and can also Earrebarre develop brown patches in prolonged wet weather. Yes, she is a bit of a primadonna, but she’s worth a little cossetting, to coax those glorious Single pure white flowers to show at their magnificent best. Tube: Sepals: H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Broad, white, with greenish recurved tips, held half down. Corolla: Fully double, three quarter flared, white. The petal edges are lightly waved de Graaf, Herman, (NL) and toothed. Only the stamens and pistil are pink. Foliage: Mid green. 1989 Delphobe VKC AM Single A very endearing flower, a fully flared single in white and red purple. Small to medium sized, and quite unusual, but easy to grow. Tube: H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Fairly short, red purple (61B). Sepals: Red purple (61B) on the upper de Cooker, Mario, (NL) surface, magenta (61C) on the lower surface, held fully up, tips recurved and also twist a little. Corolla: Fully flared, petals don't overlap 2011 at all. White with a faint red purple flush at the base and veins. Foliage: Mid green.

Very attractive flower shape and colours, easy to grow, the hybridiser Elizabeth states that this fuchsia originates from 'Remembering Claire' and recommends pinching once or twice. If not pinched , he says, 'January Single cuttings statrt flowering already abundantly in May'. He has named this H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) fuchsia after one of the family Airedale Terriers. Tube: Pale rose, longish and slim. Sepals: Pale rose, held horizontal and recurved. Whiteman, (UK) Corolla: Red-purple, ¾ flared. Foliage: Darkish mid green. 1989 Diamond Celebration Double Masses of elegant colourful flowers. Difficult cultivar to train but lovely even if left to its own devices. Tube: Rose pink. Long and slender. H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Sepals: Rose with green tips. Corolla: Vibrant rose with salmon pink Johns, Eric, (UK) shading. Foliage: Mid green. Large finely serrated leaves. 1997 Ffion Single Needs a bit of support to be grown as a bush but makes a superb H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) hanging container. This fuchsia was released to celebrate the Diamond Anniversary of the British Fuchsia Society. Tube: White. Sepals: White Welch, (UK) with pink blush and pink stripe. Held horizontally and with arching upward recurve. Corolla: Creamy white with faint pink flush. Foliage: 2003 Medium green.

Incredibly beautiful. Free-flowering, self branching naturally bushy cultivar. Tube: White blushed very pale lavender, pale lavender stripes. Sepals: Pale lavender. Corolla: Purple tinged with bit of red. Foliage: Mid green.

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Flying Cloud Harry Lye Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Reiter, (US) Goulding, Edwin, (UK) 1949 1988

Very freely produces quite large flowers which have the best colour Strong growing, vigorous cultivar which makes good standards, fans when grown in shady conditions. Growth is lax so can be trained for etc. Tube: White with pink blush. Sepals: Pale pink on top, darker pink hanging basket displays. May need some support as flowers are heavy. under, green tips, held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: Violet-pink, paler Tube: White with green tinge, in sun white with pink tinge. Sepals: and ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. White, fading to very pale pink, greenish white at the tips. Corolla: White with pink blush at the base, in sun acquires a pinkish tinge. Hazel Foliage: Light to medium green. Double Forget-Me-Not H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Richardson, (AU) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1988 Niederholzer, (US)

1940 Flowers heavily, compact short jointed fuchsia producing a dense mass of colour. Tube: White with pink candy stripes, shortish. Sepals: Baby pink, paler towards tips, held horizontally with slightly recurved tips. Very beautiful fuchsia, makes lovely weeping standards and is a real Corolla: Violet blue with baby pink splashes on outer petals, petals blaze of colour wherever you put it. Tube: Palest rose, slim. Sepals: darker towards centre of bloom, fully flared. Foliage: Mid green. Light rose pink, held horizontally and recurved when mature. Corolla: Opens dark lavender blue and pales to lavender as it matures, ¼ flared Henkelly's Chloris when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Single Gay Anne H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Spierings, (NL) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1988 Gadsby, Cliff, (UK)

1973 An upright, with a few lax stems, it can be trained for hanging baskets if wished but does make a perfectly good spreading bush. Tube: Rose pink. Sepals: Rose with olive green tips and magenta underside, held Strong growing, self branching and very free flowering fuchsia. Superb horizontally, recurved tips. Corolla: Purple maturing reddish purple. garden or container plant, easy to train for standards and fans. Tube: Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: (Drama Girl x Roesse Blacky) x Loxhore Claret rose pink. Sepals: Crimson rose, held horizontally with some Mazurka. recurve. Corolla: Lavender pink with magenta petal edges, little or no flare. Foliage: Mid green. Henkelly's Vitalia Gesaüseperle Semi Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Spierings, (NL) Nutzinger, Karl, (AT) 2012 1946 NKvF R A free branching, free flowering modern cultivar with appealing flowers in classic colours. Tube: Dark rose (58C), medium length. Sepals: Held A classic fuchsia with waxy white tube and sepals, and purple corolla. half up, tips recurved, upper surface dark rose (58C), lower is magenta Apparently very similar to Amelie Aubin. Tube: Slim, waxy white. (58B). About 33mm (1 ¼") long. Corolla: Bell shaped, ¼ flared, wavy Sepals: Qute narrow, creamy white, held half down. Corolla: Purple petal edges. Opens reddish purple (N74B), matures magenta (68A). (67B), petals have smooth edges, but don't sit entirely flat, quarter About 25mm (1") long & 21mm (¾) wide. Foliage: Medium green flared. Foliage: Mid Green. (138A). Parentage: Henkellys Syrelle x Hermen Jan Van De Vosse.

Happy Anniversary Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Fleming, (UK) 1995

Lovely semi trailing fuchsia bearing silvery lavender, fully double flowers. Makes a most attractive hanging half or full basket display. Tube: White, short. Sepals: White, held ½ up and slightly recurved. Corolla: Fully double, pale silvery lavender, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. 30 Semi Trailing A - J

Herps Kipkar Ixion Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) Aubin, RB, (DE) 2006 1881

Nearly always offered as an upright bush but ours are fabulous A substantial flower in dramatic shades of orange red and a light red spreading, dramatic semi trailers. Tube: Reddish purple. Medium length pink. Tube: Quite thick, almost 2.5cm (1") long, noticeably square in & thickness. Sepals: Dark reddish purple, held slightly below horizontal, cross section. Light red pink (38B) with faint stripes. Sepals: Light red slightly recurved tips. Corolla: Purple maturing dark reddish purple. pink (38B) on the upper surface, light red pink (38D) on the lower Foliage: Dark green with purple veins and stems. Parentage: Herps surface, fading to light yellowish green tips. Each sepal about 1cm wide Parachute x Naaldwijk 800 x 3cm long, held ½ up, tips recurved. Corolla: Half flared, almost 2.5cm (1") long, the main colour being somewhere between red pink (52B), Hidcote Beauty orange red (41B) and orange red (37A), fading to light red pink (38B). The base of the petal has translucent veins. Foliage: Mid green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) JaDi Messingtetra Webb, (UK) Single 1949 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Geenen, J, (NL)

Appealing, ideal for hanging baskets or containers, provides a delightful 2007 display however grown. Tube: Creamy white. Sepals: White with green tips, held ½ down with slight reflex. Corolla: Pale salmon pink, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. A dainty and colourful beauty that bears plenty of cute, shapely blooms and is an easy fuchsia easy to grow. Very rewarding. Tube: White, Horsforth Dream short. Sepals: White with green tips and rose blushes towards base, held ½ up. Corolla: opens violet blue and matures purple, fully flared. Single Foliage: Mid to dark green. (Parasol x Cameron Ryle) x Delta's Bride. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) James Bamber Swaby, Alan, (UK) Single 2008 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Reynolds, Gordon, (UK) Eye-catching cultivar, various shades of red and orange in the flower. Named in honour of Horsforth which is considered to be the oldest 2011 village in England. Tube: Rose. Sepals: Rose, held ½ up with recurved green tips. Corolla: Amaranth-rose, reddish orange at base, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Photographs can't do this fuchsia justice, it is absolutely gorgeous, and easy to grow. Recommended. Tube: Apricot pink, shortish. Sepals: Huet's Baraketh Fuchsia pink with white crazing and green tips, held horizontally or slightly up with slightly recurved tips. Corolla: Pinkish aubergine, long, Single ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Jasper Marnix Braam, (NL) Single 2006 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Boer, J, (NL) Lovely fuchsia, the flower petals look like they are made of velvet. Tube: Magenta, medium length & thickness. Sepals: Reddish purple 2008 with light yellowish green tips. Held horizontal with recurved tips, fully recurved when mature. Corolla: Reddish purple maturing to purple. Quarter flared. Foliage: Dark green. Parentage: Loxhore Mazurka x Small unusually shaped and coloured flowers, a fuchsia with a bushy Hertogen Van Brabant. semi-creeping habit. Tube: Smoky red & green. Sepals: Smoky red fading to green at tips. Corolla: Dark smoky violet. Foliage: Mid green. Smallish leaves. Parentage: (F. perscandens x F. procumbens) x (Lechlade Chinaman x F. splendens).

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Joanne Lady Heytesbury Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Pugh, (UK) Wheeler, S, (UK) 1978 1866

Easy to grow, lush and flamboyant. Can be used for hanging baskets or Vigorous and bushy growth, more semi trailing than upright but very containers. Tube: Rose-red, short. Sepals: Rose red, held fully up and vigorous and free flowering. Tube: Waxy white, slender and straight. recurved to stem. Corolla: Purple-mauve changing to carmine-pink at Sepals: Waxy white, held horizontally and recurved attractively. Corolla: base, carmine veining, fully flared. Foliage: Mid green. Rose pink, lighter at base and deeper towards petal edges. ¼ to ½ flared. Foliage: Pale green, bronze flush. Jungle Lady Kathleen Spence Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Sint, (NL) Ryle, (UK) 1992 1972 VKC AM Large bush with lush foliage, clusters of medium sized single flowers in terminal racemes. Tube: Long, orange to light red. Sepals: Orange Flowers very freely and works well in baskets or containers. fading to green tips, short, flared. Corolla: Orange. Foliage: Medium to Sophisticated lady. Tube: White with very slight pink blush. Sepals: large leaves, mid\darkish green. Soft and furry feel. Parentage: Space White with extremely slight pink blush and green tips, held horizontally Shuttle x Rubra Grandiflora. and partially recurved. Corolla: Opens delicate lavender which lightens slightly with maturity. ¼ flared when mature, long petals. Foliage: Mid Jungle Baby green. Single Lady Patricia Mountbatten H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Single Sint, (NL) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1996 Clark, Dave, (UK) 1985 Eye-catching bush with lush foliage, clusters of single flowers in terminal racemes. A smaller Jungle. Tube: Long, red to light red. Sepals: Red fading to green tips, short, flared. Corolla: Orange-red. Flowers profusely, very showy in a sophisticated sort of way. Versatile, Foliage: Medium leaves, mid\darkish green. Soft and furry feel. can be trained into hanging baskets and larger standards. Tube: White Parentage: Firework x Unknown with pale pink candy stripes, short. Sepals: White with pink tinge, darker at base. Held Horizontally with recurved tips. Corolla: As near blue as ↓ Semi Trailing K - Z ↓ you could ask for. Foliage: Mid green. Mood Indigo Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) 1988

Katy Flynn A reliable fuchsia giving a bold and colourful display. Tube: Greenish white with orange-pink flushes. Sepals: Rose, through white to green Single tips. Held slightly up from horizontal with slightly recurved tips. Corolla: H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Purple maturing red-purple with raspberry-pink splashes. Half flared. Foliage: Mid green. Galea, Tony, (UK) 2008

Subtly coloured, very elegant and beautiful, reckoned to be a good exhibition cultivar. Tube: Creamy white with thin baby pink candy stripes. Sepals: Pink blushed white at base through white to pale green tips, held ½ up and recurved when mature. Corolla: White with faint pink veining, little or no flare. Foliage: Mid to dark green. Sport from Marilyn Olsen.

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Mrs Marshall Nordseebrandung Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Jones, (UK) Schütt, Hartwig, (DE) 1862 2006

Can be trained into all shapes including standard, introduced in 1862 Exceptionally striking colours, difficult to do justice to in a description or she's still very popular. Was known as Grand Duchess Marie in her photo. Tube: Fluorescent bright white, slender. Sepals: White with pink early days, and won an Award of Merit from the RHS in 1929. flushes on top, more purple pink under, apple green tips. Held Generously produces medium sized flowers, early. Tube: Creamy horizontally and recurved. Corolla: Deep, irridescent violet red, between white, slender and straight. Sepals: Clear creamy white, held ¼ and ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green with paler green veins and stems. horizontally and recurved. Corolla: Rosy cerise, paler at base. 1/4 Parentage: Shirley Halladay x unknown. flared. Foliage: Dark green with paler veins and stems. Orange Drops Mrs W Rundle Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Martin, (US) Rundle, (UK) 1963 1883

Delightful orange flowered beauty, very good for training as weeping Makes a lovely weeping standard. Old but very respected and capable standards. Tube: Pale orange. Sepals: Pale orange, held ¾ up when fuchsia cultivar. Tube: White with pink blush. Longish. Sepals: Pale pink mature. Corolla: Orange with smoked edges on the petals. ¼ flared with faint palest green tips, held ¼ down. Corolla: Raspberry-orange, up when mature. Foliage: Mid green. to ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Light green. Ornamental Pearl Muriel Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Gubler, Reg, (UK) Carbell, (UK) 1984 1930

Produces abundant well formed attractive flowers, self branching & Red and purple trailer with a difference, big flowers, fast & vigorous bushy with attractive foliage as a bonus. Tube: Pink striped. Sepals: growth. Can even be trained up a structure before being allowed to Pink with bolder stripes, long and recurved. Corolla: White with pink flower, which it does freely. Tube: 2.5cm (1") dark pink red (53C). tinge and pink veining. Foliage: Pale silver green variegated cream. Sepals: Dark pink red (53C)3 to 5 cm (1 ¼" to 2") long, 15mm ( ⅝") wide, held up, twisted, tips recurved. Corolla: Petals are about 3.5cm (1 Pussy Cat (or Pussycat) ½") long, pinkish purple (N74A), base is dark pink (57C), & veined. Foliage: Dark green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Naaldwijk 800 Felix, (NL) Single 1978 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Krom, (NL) Easy to grow and extremely colourful as well as having unusual and 1997 appealing flowers. Tube: Pale rose pink with orangey undertone and darker candy stripes, thick and straight. Sepals: Rose pink with orange tinge, dark rose edges and apple green tips, held almost horizontally This is a truly superb fuchsia which produces masses of smallish single and slightly reflexed. Corolla: Pink with very slight orange tint, very flowers which look lovely against the unique silvery green foliage. Tube: unusual petaloids, less than ¼ flared. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Cerise pink. Sepals: Cerise pink to rose red at the tips. Corolla: Parentage: Leverkusen x Checkerboard. Aubergine. Foliage: Silvery, metallic green. Raspberry Ripple Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Swaby, Alan, (UK) 2008

Vigorous and free-flowering, fabulously coloured flowers, always attracts attention in containers or baskets. Tube: Red. Sepals: Red, held ½ up. Corolla: White with bold rose splashes from base. ¾ flared. Foliage: Mid green.

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Rose of Denmark Tanya Bridger Single Semi Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Banks, Edward, (UK) Bridger, (UK) 1864 1958

Makes a superb basket display due to the weight of bloom arching the Bushy growth ideal for baskets or containers, a very colourful fuchsia branches downwards. Excellent dual purpose cultivar, strong bushy giving an eye-catching display. Tube: Rose with darker stripes. Sepals: growth. Tube: White, slender with a waist. Sepals: White on top and White with hint of rose, held ½ down with slight recurve. Corolla: white with pink blush underneath. Held ¾ up and somewhat reflexed. Electric indigo, ½ flared. Foliage: Mid Green. Corolla: Purple-rose with pink veining, more pink at the base of petals. ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid to dark green. Tycha Ruth King Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Cooker, Mario, (NL) Tiret, (US) 1999 1967 Tycha is a vigorous, naturally branching fuchsia which prefers overhead filtered light and, makes a good basket or bush. Named by its hybridizer Abundant compact medium to large double flowers. Would make a after his family's brown/white Fox Terrier which sadly passed away in spectacular weeping standard. Tube: Pink, short. Sepals: Pink through 2010. Tube: Waxy white with pink blush, or pink, and with occasional white to green tips, held horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: Lilac green stripes. Short. Sepals: Light pink upper, darker rose pink and white, compact, ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green. undersides, with recurved apple green tips. Held up from horizontal, sometimes vertical. Corolla: Usually fully flared (our photo show Starlight immature flower), opens bluey violet and matures purple. Foliage: Dark green on top and paler olive green under. Stems are reddish. Single Parentage: Playboy x unknown x Belle de Limbourg. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Walsingham Bull, (UK) Double 1868 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Wilson, (UK) Awarded the RHS FCC (First Class Certificate) in 1873 this free growing, free blooming, large flowered fuchsia is still worthy of attention. 1979 Tube: Creamy white, slender. Sepals: Creamy white, held horizontally and recurved. Corolla: Rich carmine-rose, ¼ flared. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Good for half and full baskets as well as containers, the weight of flowers give a naturally weeping plant. Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Pale Sunset pink, held horizontally. Corolla: Pale lavender, fully flared. Foliage: Mid green. Northumbrian Bell x Blush o' Dawn. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) WALZ Banjo Niederholzer, (US) Single 1948 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL)

Compact and low growing lax bush freely bearing medium sized pale 1985 pink and glowing coral single flowers. Tube: Waxy white. Sepals: Pale Certificate of Honor, DCI pink on top, slightly darker under, pale green tips, held horizontally and slightly recurved. Corolla: Bright glowing coral pink, ¼ to ½ flared. Vigorous and robust, useful as it tolerates full sun and will make bushy Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: Rolla x Aurora Superba. plants as well as hanging basket displays. Tube: Rich coral pink, fairly slender. Sepals: Bright scarlet red on top, orange, red underneath, pale Sylvia Barker green tips. Corolla: Smoky coral red at base shading to light orange at base and to orangey pink at petal edges. Foliage: Mid green, stems are Single magenta. Parentage: [F. magdelenae x (Forgotten Dreams x unknown)] H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) x Bicentennial. Barker, (UK) 1973

Flowers very freely and is a vigorous grower, a useful fuchsia for training or standards, can produce large weeping heads. Tube: Creamy white. Sepals: Creamy white with pale green tips, held ½ down and recurved. Corolla: Smoky scarlet. Foliage: Mid to dark green.

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WALZ Mandoline Wilson's Sugar Pink Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) Wilson, (UK) 1988 1979 NKvF AM VKC AM Dual purpose fuchsia, produces masses of brightly coloured double Suitable for hanging baskets or bush displays, a pleasure to grow. flowers and is easy to grow. Exceptionally useful as it will make a good Stems tend to be stiffer when grown in full sun, giving the plant more of hanging basket display as well as a lax bedding or container plant, on a bush habit. Tube: White with pink shading. Sepals: Palest pink on top, top of which it can be trained into standards, fans etc. Tube: Light slightly darker pink underneath. Corolla: Mallow pink. Foliage: Mid orange, medium length and thickish. Sepals: Reddish orange on top, green. orange underneath, held slightly below horizontal with reflexed tips. Corolla: Deep orange, ¼ to ½ flared, inner petals larger than outer. Zulu Queen Foliage: Light green. Parentage: (F. magdalenae x Rubra Grandiflora) x Bicentennial Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Waveney Sunrise de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Single 1987 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Burns, D, (UK) Somewhat lax growth so can be used for baskets or, with some 1986 support, bushes. Very pretty as a trailing or relaxed bush. Tube: Rose red. Sepals: Deep rose red. Held horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: Aubergine. ½ flared. Foliage: Yellowish mid green. Masses of medium sized single flowers, deserves to be more widely grown, a real beauty. Tube: Medium, pale pink with orange tinge. Zus Liebregts Sepals: Pink fading through white to green. Corolla: Bright red. Foliage: Striking yellow foliage with red veining on young growth. Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Wentworth Buiting, Henry, (NL) Single 2006 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Goulding, (UK) Large & numerous blooms in abundance. Can be used for baskets but 1986 more suited to containers, bedding or borders. Definitely one of the more attractive and stylish doubles. Tube: Fairly long, pink fading to green. Sepals: Pink fading to green, short, spiky looking. Corolla: Violet. Wentworth very freely bears large bunches of orange and bright orange- Foliage: Mid green. pink flowers with very long tubes. One of eight cultivars named after famous British golf courses in 1986. Tube: Orange to pale orange, ↓ Trailing A - J ↓ 21/4" long, slender. Sepals: Orange at base fading through rose pink to white with apple green tips. Fairly long, held half down with slight reflex. Foliage: Mid green occasionally blushed bronze.

White Spider Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Haag, (US) 1951 Amazing Maisie Semi Double Vigorous and very free-flowering fuchsia whose flowers have beautiful H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) wildly curly sepals. Tube: Pale pink, longish and slender. Sepals: Very pale pink with green tips, long, held horizontally and recurved, curly. Allsop, (UK) Corolla: White with pink veining, long petals ¼ flared when mature. 2001 Foliage: Mid green.

Abundant flowers make the branches arch downwards, making this an excellent basket variety. Also superb in containers. Tube: Pale baby pink, slender. Sepals: Pale baby pink with green tips, held fully up and recurved when mature. Corolla: Smoky orange with smoky purple and orange-pink splashes. Foliage: Mid green.

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Amerika Blauer Engel Semi Double Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Unknown Dietrich, Waltraud, (DE) Unknown 1995

Freely produces medium sized showy flowers. Tube: Medium, white. Makes amazing hanging basket displays with its numerous large Sepals: White, greenish tips. Corolla: Pink with violet blush, orangey flowers. Sometimes referred to as Blue Angel. Tube: White with pale pink at base. Foliage: Green, lush and fairly dense. green stripe. Sepals: White. Corolla: Blue, dark wisteria shade. Foliage: Mid green. Auntie Jinks Blowick Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Wilson, (UK) Porter, (UK) 1970 1984 RHS AGM Masses of gorgeous single flowers. A popular exhibition fuchsia and an exceptional beauty. Tube: Pink\red. Sepals: White with scarlet edging. Can be trained as weeping standards, particularly recommended for Corolla: Violet with white blush. Foliage: Small mid green leaves. half standards as well as hanging baskets and tall containers. Tube: Pale fuchsia pink with slightly darker stripes, short. Sepals: Fuchsia Autumnale pink, held horizontally with slight recurve at tips. Corolla: Opens mallow- purple and matures to an attractive shade of plum. ½ flared when Single mature. Foliage: Mid-green. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Blue Veil Courcelles, (FR) Double 1880 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) RHS AGM Pacey, Robert, (UK) Mainly grown for its colourful foliage, pinch out regularly. Best colour in youger growth. An interesting fuchsia. Tube: Scarlet. Sepals: Scarlet- 1980 rose, held ½ down. Corolla: Purple, little or no flare. Foliage: Green, yellow, dark red, salmon etc. A vigorous naturally trailing fuchsia bearing lots of large white and pale Belinda Jane blue flowers. Easily produces a spectacular hanging basket display. Tube: White with pink candy stripes, short. Sepals: White, held Single horizontally with varying recurve. Corolla: Pale blue with slight violet H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) overtone, fully flared. Foliage: Mid Green. Fisher, (UK) Daisy Bell 1994 Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Naturally cascading vigorous fuchsia, long, arching, heavily flowered Miesecke, Carl, (US) stems, clean coloured medium sized flowers. Tube: Waxy white, slender. Sepals: Waxy white with green tips, held ½ down with small 1977 recurve at tips. Corolla: Pink-salmon-orange, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Gorgeous orangey flowers, the more sun, the more orange the overall Big Slim colour cast is tendsto be. Tube: Pale rose pink with orange overtones, longish. Sepals: Pale orange-pink fading to green tips, held ¼ down and Single very slightly reflexed. Corolla: Vermilion, more orangey near base of H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) petals. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Lightish mid green. Sloots, (NL) Dark Mystery 1994 Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) One of the longest flowers you can expect to see on any fuchsia. Spierings, Henk, (NL) Growth is slender and requires as much pinching out as you can manage, also if you can provide some support for the longer stems it 1967 can help. Not an easy fuchsia to attain perfect shape with but gives a superb display whatever shape it ends up as. Tube: Astonishingly long and thin, pale pinky tangeriney sort of colour though some variation. Naturally trailing fuchsia useful and very good for all types of hanging Sepals: Slim sepals, white to pink to green at the tips. Varies a bit. displays. Tube: White. Sepals: Rose aubergine. Slightly swept back Corolla: Darker orangey pink. Foliage: Mid green. from corolla and with recurved tips. Sometimes sold as Dark Mistery. Corolla: Aubergine. Foliage: Medium green.

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DebRon's Tonii Nicole Emma Louise Double Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Monnier, Debbie & Ron, (US) Horsham, (UK) 2009 1990

Another beautiful cultivar from the Monnier stable, in delicious white and Gives superb displays with its compact trailing growth and numerous lilac with pink. A natural trailer, self-branching and plenty of flowers. blooms, a particularly pretty fuchsia. Tube: Pale rose pink. Sepals: Pale There is a video clip from 2008 at rose pink, held fully recurved. Corolla: Powder blue-violet maturing to "http:\\www.youtube.com\watch?v=SKagJnrlbB4" that shows its mauve-pink. Foliage: Mid green. hybridizer, talking about it and his other wonderful introductions from that year. Tube: Quite long, medium thickness, yellowish white (158A). Fiona Sepals: Eventually fully up, tips recurved; white (155B) tipped apple green (145B) upper surface; pink (54D) lower surface. Corolla: This is Single ½ flared; smooth turned under margins; opens and matures light violet H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) (84C) splashed pink (54D). Foliage: Medium green (137C) . Clark, (UK) Delta's Fellow 1958 Single

H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) A fuchsia that has strong spreading growth and abundant flowers, Vreek-van't Westeinde, (NL) underrated. Tube: White. Sepals: White with green tips, held partly up in a random fashion. Corolla: Pale lavender, white at base of the petals. 1991 ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green.

Flair Self branching, very free flowering, naturally trailing, useful for all types of hanging displays. Flowers over a long period. This is a very poor Single photo. Tube: Soft pale rose. Sepals: White with green tips. Held back H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) against tube when mature, reflexed tips . Corolla: Soft lilac. Foliage: Medium green. Tiret, (US)

Didi 1961 Double Vigorous fuchsia bearing large flowers which are generously produced. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Tube: Pale pink, fairly short, slender. Sepals: Pale rose through pale Beije, Martin, (NL) pink to green tips, held fully up when mature. Corolla: Lavender blue getting paler towards base of petals. Foliage: Mid green. 1989 Frozen Tears

Cascades naturally and makes a commendable hanging basket, Single capable of large displays . Tube: White and very pale green, slim. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Sepals: White blushed rose with green tips, held horizontally. Corolla: Violet pink. ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Pale mid green. Cooker, Mario de, (NL)

Emily 1992 Single Naturally trailing fuchsia, huge amounts of elegant brightly coloured H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) flowers. Tube: Pale red. Sepals: Pale red with blueish overtones, held Gotz, Wolfram, (DE) ½ down and recurved. Corolla: Crimson at base then a reddish purple, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. 2001 Gay Future

Freely produces small to medium sized very pretty flowers. Very good Single for producing a rounded display in a hanging basket. Tube: Short, white H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) blushed slightly pink. Sepals: White slightly blushed pink with green tips. Boldly recurved. Corolla: Lilac. Foliage: Mid green lush and fairly Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) dense. 1975

Attractive picotee edges and delicate colours. Naturally trailing fuchsia, self branching, great in baskets. Tube: White heavily flushed with persian rose pink. Sepals: White heavily flushed with persian rose pink and greenish tips, held ¼ down. Corolla: Pale violet fading to white towards base of petals, darker violet picotee egdes of petals. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish green.

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Gina I Love You Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Hobson, (UK) Murru, (BE) 1974 1989

A lovely fuchsia that prefers a semi shaded position. Tube: Pale rose. Truly beautiful and very vigorous, makes absolutely fabulous large Sepals: Rose pink with green tips. Corolla: White with pronounced rose basket displays. Tube: Creamy white. Sepals: White with slight pink veining from base of petals. Fully flared. Foliage: Mid to light green. blush and green tips, held ½ down and attractively recurved. Corolla: Rich rose pink with orange and white flushes at base of petals, little or Harmony no flare. Foliage: Lightish mid green. Single Insetta H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Tabraham, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1978 Strümper, Karl, (DE) 1990 Free flowering, very attractive blooms of white and light purple on lax growth. Tube: Long & slim, white, faint pink stripes. Sepals: Proportionately long, slim, pinkish white, held half up, tips recurved. Free flowering natural trailer with elegant flowers in rich, classic colours. Corolla: Light purple, aging to a slightly pinker shade, ¼ flared. Foliage: Lovely. Tube: Medium length, barrel shaped, red. Sepals: Held Mid green. horizontally, medium length, red. Corolla: Unflared, rich lavender, pale basal patch. Foliage: Mid green. Hendrikje Stoffels Izabela Cieszynska Double Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Brouwer, (NL) Michiels, Marcel, (BE) 1985 2009

Gorgeous in hanging basket displays. Not a widely available fuchsia but well worth growing. Tube: Rose red. Sepals: Light rose with white Stunningly beautiful double trailer with sumptuous blooms in rich berry flames, held horizontally, recurved somewhat. Corolla: Wine red with colours. Hard to do justice to in a photo or description. Magnificent. salmon pink base and deeper wine red edging to the petals. Foliage: Tube: White (155B,; medium thickness, 18mm (¾") long. Sepals: Held Mid green. half down, light apple green (145B) recurved tips. Pale pink (56D) upper, dark rose (67C) lower. 32mm (1¼") long. Corolla: Half flared, Hermiena packed with petals, opens dark reddish purple (64A) & purple (71A). Matures magenta (71C) and dark reddish purple (72A). 2.5cm (1") long. Single Foliage: Dark green (139A). Parentage: Manfried Kleinau x Lenny Erwin H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lavieren, GJ, (NL) Jack Shahan 1987 Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Self branching, exceedingly generous flower producer. Medium sized Tiret, (US) eye-grabbing flowers in abundance. Tube: Short, white, maybe hint of pink. Held slightly down with a pretty recurve. Sepals: White, hint of 1948 pink, greenish tips. Corolla: Bold violet, changing to a rich plum. RHS AGM Foliage: Mid green. Naturally lax growing, ideal for superb basket displays that flower for Hettenheuvel prolonged period. Time spent pinching out in the early stages is worthwhile. Tube: Bright rose red. Sepals: Rose bengal. Held Single horizontally with recurved tips, more recurved when mature. Corolla: H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Lilac-pink. Foliage: Dark green. Buiting, Henry, (NL) Jess 1998 Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Unusual eye-catching beauty, gives superb display all season. Tube: Meier, (UK) Deep purple, long and slender. Sepals: Purple, held ½ down and recurved. Corolla: Very dark purple, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid 1987 to dark green.

Vigorous fuchsia with flowers facing up, down and all directions. Tube: Deep rose\pink, slender. Sepals: Deep rose with small green tips. Held horizontally and slightly recurved when mature. Corolla: Intense bright cerise. ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. 38 Trailing K - Z

Kames Bay Long Fellow Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Reynolds, Gordon, (UK) Lockerbie, Ron, (AU) 2011 1960

Beautiful combination of colours on this free-flowering fuchsia. Tube: A truly beautiful, slender, elegant beauty, Long Fellow bears numerous Creamy white with slight pink blush, slender. Sepals: Creamy white with exquisitely elongated, eye-catching, white and red-violet flowers. Tube: slight pink blush on top, slightly darker pink underneath, held White, occasionally with very slight pink blush, very long and slender, horizontally and recurved towards the green tips. Corolla: Deep tapers very slightly. Sepals: White with rose-violet blush at base, darker burgundy, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. underneath, held horizontally with full recurve almost touching the tube. Corolla: Violet with red overtones, pale rose pink near base, long and Kit Oxtoby slender with no flare. Folaige: Mid green. Double Moonglow H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Double Bielby\Oxtoby, (UK) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1990 Riley, Robert, (US) 1991 Extremely free-flowering fuchsia, which together with its naturally trailing habit makes it an excellent choice for hanging baskets. Tube: Porcelain- white with occasional faint rose blush. Sepals: Pale pink with apple Naturally trailing cultivar that freely bears masses of large, green tips. Held horizontally or slightly up with recurved tips. Broad. predominantly white flowers. Tube: White, sometimes with very faint Corolla: Pale lilac-pink shading to rose-pink towards edges, darker peachy-pink tinge. Sepals: White with peachy-pink tinge, held half down picotee edge and pale pink splashes along the faint red veins. Foliage: with partial recurve and sometines gentle twists. Corolla: White, ¾ Mid green slightly narrowish leaves. flared, occasional very faint pink splashes on outer petals. Foliage: Mid green. Land van Beveren My Honey Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Saintenoy, (BE) Palko, (US) 1990 1976

Quietly refined, this fuchsia is easy and a great pleasure to grow, very pleasing to the eye. Tube: Waxy white, slender. Sepals: Waxy white, Naturally trailing fuchsia which flowers heavily giving a superb display. held horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: Carmine pink with small Tube: White with pink flush. Sepals: White with pink flush on top, more white flashes coming from base of petals, ¼ flared when mature. pink underneath, pale green tips. Held horizontally with slight reflex. Foliage: Mid green. Corolla: Light purple mauve with darker picotee edges and carmine pink variegated base. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Lisi Single Olympic Lass H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Double Strümper, Karl, (DE) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1985 Sutherland, (US) 1967 Lisi is a compact, short-jointed, free flowering and naturally trailing fuchsia, ideal for hanging baskets and mini standards. Atttractive and very freely produced white and violet single flowers. Tube: White. Flowers very freely, which together with its naturally trailing habit and Sepals: White with very pale rose pink blush towards outer half which is heavy weight of flowers makes this fuchsia an excellent choice for darker underneath. Held half down with slight recurve towards tips. hanging baskets. Tube: Rose pink and white. Sepals: Rose red at base Corolla: Violet, pinker and paler towards the middle base of the petals then white with green tips, recurved. Corolla: Purple with pink bias and and darker towards the edges. ¼ to ½ flared. Foliage: Darkish mid darker purple edging. Foliage: Mid green, lush. green.

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Orange Blossom Popsie Girl Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Bielby\Oxtoby, (UK) Dowell, (UK) 1990 1990

A very free-flowering fuchsia that carries swathes of brightly coloured Very pretty fuchsia whose flowers look marvellous against the foliage. flowers, excellent choice for hanging baskets. Tube: White with orange- Tube: Pale pink with slightly bolder pink striping. Sepals: Pale pink with rose blush. Sepals: White with orange-rose blush and apple green tips. orangey tinge. Held slightly down. Corolla: Orange with pink bias. Held horizontally or slightly up with recurved tips. Broad. Corolla: Bright Foliage: Silvery green & pink with cream edge variegation. orange easing to red near petal edges. Foliage: Mid green slightly narrowish leaves. President Margaret Slater Paul und Carola Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Taylor, Arthur, (UK) Michiels, Marcel, (BE) 1972 2007 Named after a former president of the BFS, this naturally trailing fuchsia is a seedling from 'Cascade', and lives up to its parent's name. Bearing Vigorous naturally trailing fuchsia with medium sized rose pink, violet cascades of medium sized single flowers this fuchsia is known to and light purple flowers. Superb for hanging baskets or any trailing tolerate heat and produce its best flower colour in a sunny position. display. Tube: Rose pink with yellow-green candy stripes, slender and Tube: White, slender. Sepals: White with a very pale rose pink blush tapering. Sepals: Rose pink with apple green tips, slightly lighter and apple green tips, held beteween ¼ & ½ up and reflexed. Corolla: underside, held slightly up from horizontal with very slight reflex at tips. Mauve with salmon pink flushes, ¼ flared, slightly bell shaped. Foliage: Corolla: Violet maturing light purple with rose base and veining, half Darkish mid green. flared wiith scalloped petal edges slightly turned inward. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: Jef Vander Kuylen x Hilda Princessita Pearly King Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Niederholzer, (US) Forward, (UK) 1940 1993 One of the very best for easily creating superb exhibition hanging baskets. Very highly recommended - it may be an old cultivar but it's A bright and bold double flowered fuchsia which makes a superb still got what it takes. Tube: White with faint green tinge & stripes. hanging basket display. Tube: Light red-purple. Sepals: Light red- Sepals: White on top, slight pink blush under. Long and narrow, prettily purple. Corolla: Pale purple. Foliage: Mid green. recurved when mature. Corolla: Deep rose pink with purple bias. Foliage: Medium to dark green. Pink Rain Put's Folly Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Baker, (UK) 1976 1971 NKvF AM Rain is the operative word, this wonderful cultivar literally showers itself with pretty single blooms. Trails slightly stiffly, giving a wide display of Naturally trailing fuchsia ideal for hanging baskets, grows vigorously, abundant blossom. Very suited to training into shapes and superbly easy and gives a wonderful show. Tube: Pale pink, elongated and suited for bonsai work. Tube: Pale pink with lilac overtone, slim, slender. Sepals: Creamy white above, pale pink blush on the underside. proportionately long and straight. Sepals: Pale pink with lilac overtones Held horizontally with slight reflex. Corolla: Lilac-pink with paler pink at fading through white with pink candy stripes to apple green tips. Corolla: the base of the petals. Foliage: Mid green, finely serrated large leaves. Light mallow purple with rose pink veins and rounded petals. ¼ flared. Foliage: Dark green.

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Queen Elizabeth René-Madeleine Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Garson, Gordon, (US) Ector, (BE) 1942 1999 NKvF AM As befits its name this lovely fuchsia is the epitome of timeless Incredibly pretty, flouncy and eye-grabbing. Recommended. Tube: elegance and refined beauty. It is also generous with its flowers, easy White with peach overtones. Sepals: White or candy pink with white to grow and very vigorous. Tube: Red, has a slight waistline. Sepals: central stripe, horizontal and recurved with a curl. Corolla: Pale purple, Red, elegant with a curving habit, sometimes curling right back past the pink at base, rose veins. Foliage: Mid to dark green. tube. Corolla: Cerise, with heliotrope undertones. ¼ flared, with delicately scalloped petal edges. Foliage: Mid green. Roesse Duck Ratatouille Single Double H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Roes, (NL) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) 2006 1988 Petite and perky, stylish look about it, fabulous for container and half basket displays. Tube: Rose. mid length, tapered. Sepals: Rose, A striking double flowered fuchsia of unusual colour markings, superb in slightly darker underside, long and fully recurved. Corolla: Purple containers. Tube: White. Sepals: White with green tips, held up and maturing to reddish purple, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: recurved, curly. Corolla: Purple with white splashes, fully flared when Rosea x Luuk van Riet. mature. Foliage: Mid green. Roesse Meton Red Spider Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Roes, (NL) Reiter, (US) 2007 1946

Lots of very distinctively shaped and appealing flowers. Splendid basket Needs much pinching out in early stages but produces beautiful long cultivar. Flower: Single. Tube: Pale violet, long, slender and tapering. heavily flowered arching stems. Superb fuchsia in baskets and Sepals: Pale pink with green tips, held horizontally with recurved tips. containers. Tube: Crimson, slender, longish. Sepals: Crimson, held Corolla: Violet-blue maturing to violet, ½ flared. Foliage: Mid to dark horizontally and curving up and around - very curvy & twisty. Corolla: green. Habit: Trailing. Parentage: Roesse Duck x Sofie Michiels. Rose-violet, fairly long, little flare. Foliage: Darkish mid green.

Remembering Claire Rosemary Higham Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Cooker, Mario, (NL) Barnes, (UK) 2008 1971

Much more purple than pictured when grown in sun. Naturally trailing Striking variegated foliage, heaps of medium sized single flowers and fuchsia. Described by its hybridiser as follows: "'Remembering Claire naturally trailing habit make this one of the best basket varieties. Tube: has, amongst others, F,inflata, F.juntasensis and F.magdalenae in its Longish, pink. Sepals: Pink with bolder pink line down middle. Corolla: parentage. It is a trailing fuchsia variety with long, single, deep purple Rose pink. Foliage: Variegated silver green, pale green, cream. flowers. Soon after its introduction in 2008, it has become very popular in The Netherlands. 'Remembering Claire' is named after a little pig that Sensation once was part of the family." Tube: White with purple blush, long and slender - much bolder purple if grown in full sun. Sepals: White with Single slightly deeper purple blush than tube, held ¼ down with slight recurve. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Corolla: Deep purple, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Munkner, (US) 1962

Well-named and fairly vigorous, suitable for large and small displays, baskets and containers. Likes to be well fed and will produce sweeping swathes of flower if fed accordingly. Tube: Creamy white. Sepals: Creamy white, held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: Rich violet shaded with pink, more so towards the base of the petals. Pink veins and occasional creamy-pink splashes. Foliage: Mid Green.

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Sharon WALZ Freule Semi Double Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Tiret, (US) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 1948 1985

Although a trailing fuchsia, the stems are strong and easily support the Distinguished by its profuse flowering and the rich opening colour of its weight of flowers. Grows horizontally before weeping, can make quite a corolla. Makes a very good hanging basket display. Tube: White with wide, graceful display. Tube: White. Sepals: White with green tips. pink candy stripes, slim, tapering. Sepals: Pale rose pink through white Corolla: Rose pink. Foliage: Mid to dark green. to green. Corolla: Rich magenta shading to rose at base of petals, pales with maturity when it is ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Strawberry Daiquiri WALZ Harp Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Four Oaks, (UK) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 2004 1990 VKC AM Packed with eye-grabbing appeal, will flower its socks off all season. Superb. Tube: Pale pink, short. Sepals: Pink, slightly darker Long bright flowers and naturally trailing growth make this a superb underneath, held horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: Deep rose hanging basket fuchsia. Tube: Salmon rose, long, slender & tapered. red, ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Sepals: Salmon rose fading to orange. Held horizontal and reflexed. Corolla: Orange at the base blending to bold dark red. ¼ Flared. Temptation Foliage: Mid green. Single WALZ Hoorn H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Peterson, (US) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) 1959 Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 1985 Bushy and floriferous fuchsia cultivar with bright, fresh looking flowers. Certificate of Honor, DCI These photos are of a flower well past it's best and will be replaced when time allows. Tube: White with pink blush. Sepals: White with pink Naturally trailing, carries bunches of magenta and cardinal red, slender, blush, held horizontal with slight recurve. Corolla: Red with orange cast, long tubed flowers, giving an eye-catching and appealing show. Likes ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish green. overhead lightly filtered sun, and is heat tolerant if shaded. Tube: Bright cardinal red, long and slender with a 'hip' at the sepal end. Sepals: Bold Trailing King cardinal red with pale pink tips, held half down with slight reflex at tips. Corolla: Magenta, quarter flared. Foliage: Dark green. Parentage: [F. Single magdalenae x (Forgotten Dreams x unknown)] x Whiteknights Pearl. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Brown, (US) WALZ Parasol 1936 Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Naturally trailing, generously produces smallish sized single flowers in Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) swathes, beautiful effect, very satisfying display. Tube: Short, white. Sepals: White, greenish tips. Held horizontally with outer half reflexed. 1984 Corolla: Pink\orange. Glows. Foliage: Green, lush and fairly dense. Certificate of Honor, DCI Vincent van Gogh Produces dense masses of flowers, prefers full sun and shows best flower colour in bright conditions, quite stiff growth, makes a good Single hanging basket. Tube: Creamy pink with candy stripes, slender and H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) slightly tapering. Sepals: Neyron rose on top and a bit darker underneath with very pale green tips, held half down and recurved. van der Post, (NL) Corolla: Bright vermilion maturing azalea pink, just over half flared. Foliage: Darkish mid green. 1984

Reliable and easy to grow, flowers its socks off all summer and is largely self dead-heading. Gorgeous flowers. Tube: Pink, darker at stem end, long and slender. Sepals: Pink with green tips, held ½ down. Corolla: Pink, up to ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

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Wattenpost ↓ Hardy A - J ↓ Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Schütt, Hartwig, (DE) 2002

Gorgeous beautifully shaped single flowers are generously produced by this easy to grow and very rewarding fuchsia. Tube: White with rose pink streaks, curvy and proportionately just right. Sepals: White with Abbé Farges rose blush on top, white underneath, held horizontally and fully recurved. Corolla: Coral-orange, ¼ flared, petals curve attractively Semi Double outward in their lower half. Foliage: Mid to dark green. H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) Windhapper Lemoine, (FR) Single 1901 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Moerman, (NL) Vigorous & free-flowering, lovely colour combination, a compact and classic hardy fuchsia. 18 " to 24" (45cm to 60cm) tall, 12" to 18" (30cm 1991 to 45cm) spread. Good genuinely hardy garden plant and ideal for quarter standard. Stems can be a bit brittle. Tube: Crimson. Sepals: Crimson, held horizontally and almost fully recurved. Corolla: Lavender Beautiful large single flowers with some of the longest sepals we've maturing rose. Foliage: Mid green. seen. Although a large flower it is elegant, graceful. Tube: White, short. Sepals: White on top, pale rose pink underneath, very long and held Aloys Hetterscheid just below horizontal with slight recurve. Corolla: Violet, shading to rose pink in centre base of petals, no flare, long and straight. Foliage: Mid Single green. H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Zeeuwse Parel Stoel, Z, (NL) Single 1996 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Herwijnen, van, (NL) This small and naturally bushy fuchsia was tested for five years in the Netherlands, where it proved hardy to -15C. The profuse single flowers 1992 are mostly white, elegant and large, quarter flared. It prefers overhead filtered light to full sun in a cool climate. The best bloom colour is in good light, and is heat tolerant if shaded. Tube: Proportionately medium Exceptionally beautiful, long sepals on elegant flowers. A well grown sized, white (155D) with faint pink stripes. Sepals: Long and narrow, basket of these is a great pleasure to behold. Tube: Rose, slender. white (155D), dark rose (58C) at base with light apple green (145C) Sepals: Rose with touch of violet, long and slender, held slightly down recurved tips, held half up. Corolla: Quarter flared, white (155D), dark with generous recurve. Corolla: Indigo-violet, shading to rose at the rose (58C) at base\edges with smooth petal edges. Foliage: Mid green. base of the petals, little or no flare, quite long. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: Ingram Maid x (Bicentennial x Alma Hulscher).

Zellertal Andromeda Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Gotz, Paul, (DE) de Groot, (NL) 1989 1972

Slender beauty, flowers very freely, superb for hanging containers and always attracts attention. Tube: Creamy white, long and slender, Neat, compact and bushy, Andromeda has smallish single flowers, held straight. Sepals: White with rose pink tinge and tiny apple green tips. facing slightly out. A graceful and airy plant, very pretty. Free-flowering, Held slightly below horizontal. Corolla: Bright coral pink, occasional pale in classic colours of rich pink and violet. A little charmer. Tube: Medium pink splashes, about ¼ flared with attractively crinkled petal edges. sized, rich pink. Sepals: Rich pink, held horizontally. Corolla: Pinkish Foliage: Darkish mid green. violet, quarter-flared, smooth petal edges. Foliage: Mid green.

Zulu King Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) 1990 VKC AM Naturally trailing, flower colours stay the same from opening to maturity giving a consistent look across the whole plant. Tube: Deep carmine red. Sepals: Deep carmine, held horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: Intense deep dark aubergine. Foliage: Dark green. 43 Hardy A - J

Arcadia Gold Bernisser Hardy Single Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Birch, (UK) Weeda, B, (NL) 1984 1985 RHS AGM Variegated sport of the famous fuchsia Swingtime, with identical Distinctive, shows its graceful flowers well. Bees particularly like this flowers. The brightly variegated leaves need good light but tend to one. Smallish single flowers produced continuously. Tube: Short, bleach and burn in full sun. Tube: Fairly short, red (45B). Sepals: Fairly pink\scarlet. Sepals: Vivid purple\red. Corolla: Vivid purple\red. Foliage: short and very broad, red, held fully up, tips recurved. Corolla: Fully Fairly narrow small leaves, slightly glossy green. double, widely flared, pleated white petals with reddish veins at the base. Foliage: Heavily variegated in gold and reddish tones, particularly Blue Bush the young growth. Single Army Nurse H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Double Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) 1973 Hodges, (US)

1947 Very vigorous upright grower, sometimes used for hedges and RHS AGM boundaries within the garden. Tube: Pale pink blending to rosy red medium length. Sepals: Rose red\pink, held fully up , recurved. Corolla: Popular vigorous fuchsia which well deserves its RHS AGM. Tube: Blue maturing to violet with rose veining, ¼ flared when mature. Cardinal red. Sepals: Cardinal red, held slightly up and slightly reflexed. Foliage: Mid to light green. Corolla: Indigo-violet, fully flared. Foliage: Mid Green. Border Queen Avalanche Single Double H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Ryle\Atkinson, (UK) Henderson, (UK) 1974 1869 RHS AGM Masses of flowers all summer and autumn until frosted. An outstanding When fully flowering the weight of flowers produced change an hardy fuchsia. Tube: Short, white with pink blush. Sepals: Blushed pink otherwise lax bush into a trailer, needs support if grown as bedding or through white to apple green tips. Corolla: Violet blue with pink veins. as a bush. Flowers profusely and makes a superb large basket display. Foliage: Mid green, reddish stems. Parentage: Leonora x Lena Dalton. Tube: Scarlet, short. Sepals: Bright scarlet, held ½ up. Corolla: Purple blue with splashes of white and scarlet towards base of petals, ½ flared. Brutus Foliage: Mid green. Single Baby Blue Eyes H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Single Bull, (UK) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) 1901 Plummer, (UK) RHS AGM 1952 Strong upright, capable of becoming a very large plant, good for training RHS AGM into large standards, pillars, fans etc. Tube: Crimson, short, slender. Sepals: Crimson, held slightly down and well recurved. Corolla: Dark Not such a baby - can reach 4ft (1.2m) high. Strong growing fuchsia, purple fading slightly lighter with age, ¾ flared when mature. Foliage: reliably hardy, flowers its socks off. Tube: Red, slim, tapering. Sepals: Darkish mid green. Red, held ½ up and recurved. Corolla: Rich lavender blue, little flare. Foliage: Darkish mid green. Caledonia Beninkust Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Lemoine, (FR) de Boer, J, (NL) 1899 2006 Unusual hardy with long cerise and crimson tubular flowers. Makes a lovely low hedge. Tube: Cerise-rose, long. Sepals: Pale rose-cerise, The neat & numerous flowers look lovely against the dark foliage and held ¼ to ½ down. Corolla: Crimson, little or no flare. Foliage: Mid green. give a good display. An unusually hardy fuchsia. Tube: Deep rose red. Sepals: Rose red, slightly darker underside. Corolla: Opens reddish purple & matures magenta. Foliage: Dark green.

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Celia Smedley Conspicua Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Roe, G, (UK) Smith, (UK) 1970 1863 RHS AGM RHS AGM Easy & free flowering, with distinctive flowers in clear bright contrasting A dependable hardy bearing flowers with attractively veined corolla colours. Tube: Medium length and thickness, greenish white. Sepals: petals. Tube: Crimson. Sepals: Crimson, held ½ up and recurved. Very pale pink, almost white, held half up, recurved greenish tips . Corolla: White with raspberry veining, up to ½ flared when mature. Corolla: Smooth petals of a clear, bright pinkish red, quarter flared. Foliage: Dark green. Foliage: Mid green. Constance Champagne Celebration Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Berkely Horticultural Nurseries (US) Jones, (UK) 1935 1988

Free-flowering and reliable hardy, vigorous upright grower, ideal for Easy to grow and flowers very freely. Flower stamens are very long with bedding, containers and training as standards, fans etc. Tube: White bright red anthers. Tube: Palest pink. Sepals: Palest pink at base with pink blush. Sepals: White with pink flush and green tips, held blending to deeper pink with green tips. Corolla: Shades from palest horizontally. Corolla: Rose-mauve, paler at base of petals, ¾ flared pink to purple with salmon edges, maturing to pale magenta. Foliage: when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Medium green. Corallina Charming Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Pince, (UK) Lye, James, (UK) 1844 1887 RHS AGM This is the original cultivar which has produced several sports (including One of the very best hardy fuchsias for sheer flower power, very the well known 'Tom West'). Tube: Slender, rich dark purple red. vigorous and free-flowering. Tube: Deep carmine pink. Sepals: Dark Sepals: Rich dark purple red, fairly long and narrow, held half down. carmine pink, held ¼ down and well recurved. Corolla: Dark indigo- Corolla: Violet purple, slightly flared. Foliage: Handsome, dark leaves, purple with raspberry base. ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green with yellow with an overall purple bronze appearance. Parentage: Exoniensis x F. overtone. montana.

Chillerton Beauty Corallina (Speckled) Single Single H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Bass, (UK) Clark, (UK) 1847 1989 RHS AGM Ideal cultivar for fuchsia hedges with its strong upright growth habit. Truly amazing foliage with very attractive flowers. Tube: Carmine. Flowers freely and easy to grow. Looks great as bedding or in large Sepals: Carmine. Corolla: Purple, pink at the base. Foliage: Young containers. Tube: Pale rose pink. Sepals: Pale pink with green tips. shoots and leaves are curiously speckled and variegated, in an Darker pink underneath. Corolla: Mauve-violet with pink veins, ageing to intriguing mix of violet-pink, cream, yellow and green. Parentage: F. magenta. Foliage: Medium green. cordifolia x Globosa.

Cloverdale Pearl Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) 1974

Suitable for training as standards or into shapes. Flower: Single, medium. Tube: White or pale pink, short. Sepals: Pale pink with darker pink or green tips, held horizontally with slight recurve. Corolla: White with red or pink veining on the petals. ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Darkish mid green, small leaves. Parentage: Unnamed seedling x Grace Darling.

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Corallina (Splashed) Empress of Prussia Single Double H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Unknown Hoppe, (UK) Unknown 1868 RHS AGM We obtained this plant as 'Corallina', but its young growth colouring is Flowers freely and continuously over a long season, each leaf joint noticeably different to both the original dark leaved form and the normal carrying up to eight flowers. Strong growth and self branching, with variegated one with "speckled" colour markings. Markings are of similar careful pinching can be grown to an excellent shape. Tube: Scarlet with colours, but appear in small splashes and patches, rather than as darker stripes. Sepals: Glossy scarlet on top, dull scarlet underneath. suffused spots or speckles. Young shoots show these colour markings Corolla: Magenta with red bias, matures to violet red. Petals are pale best. Tube: Slender, rich dark purple red. Sepals: Rich dark purple red, red and pink at base with purple edges and scarlet veins. Foliage: fairly long and narrow, held half down. Corolla: Violet purple, slightly Medium to dark green. flared. Foliage: Young foliage has cream and pink markings splashed markings that fade as the leaves age. Sport of Corallina, date unknown. Ernie Bromley Single Dark Eyes H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Double Goulding, Edwin, (UK) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) 1988 Erickson, (US)

1958 Very vigorous, free-flowering self and self branching, with boldly RHS AGM coloured flowers which display exceptionally well against the pale foliage. Tube: Crimson-pink. Sepals: Red-pink, held horizontally. Free flowering & bushy growth, makes a superb display as a border Corolla: Indigo-blue. ¼ flared. Foliage: Pale green, yellow tinted leaf plant or in containers, very showy. Tube: Deep red. Short. Sepals: Deep edges. red. Short and broad. Corolla: A bold violet. Foliage: Medium green. Flash David Single Single H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Hazard & Hazard, (US) Wood, W.P. (UK) 1930 1949 RHS AGM RHS AGM Dependably hardy with a particularly upright growth habit, ideal for hedges and borders. Produces masses of small brightly coloured single Low growing & very bushy fuchsia that flowers generously and flowers, gives a superb display. Tube: Thin, pale magenta red. Sepals: dependably over a long season. Tube: Cerise. Sepals: Cerise, held ¼ Pale magenta, slightly recurved. Corolla: Bright magenta\red. Foliage: down with slightly reflexed tips. Corolla: Vivid purple. Foliage: Dark Pale Green. green. Flashlight Dorothy Hanley Single Double H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) Carless, Howard, (UK) 1971 1997

Pretty and easy to grow hardy with lovely apple green tipped sepals. Largish semi double flowers abundantly produced provide a truly lovely Tube: White with hint of rose blush. Sepals: White with rose blush. display. Flower: Semi-double. Tube: Short, deep purple red & pink. Corolla: Pale lilac-pink. Foliage: Medium green. Sepals: Darker purple red with sometimes green tips. Corolla: Aubergine & pink. Foliage: Mid green. Florence Turner Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Turner, (UK) 1955

Naturally bushy, freely produces medium sized blooms from early in the season until frosted. Tube: Pale pink with slightly darker stripes, short. Sepals: Pale pink through white to pale green tips, held horizontally with slight reflex. Corolla: Pink-purple, darker at edges and fading to white at the base of the petals, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

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Fokko's Katrientje Genéral Monk Single Double H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Martena, Fokko, (NL) Meillez, (FR) 2002 1844 Award of Merit (VKC, Holland) A super little sport of 'Beacon Rosa'; this is a real novelty - a stripey, A lovely old timer that's swell worth growing. Only about 30cm (12") tall, hardy, bush fuchsia. No two flowers are alike. Some have almost no ideal for rockeries or border edges. Tube: Fairly short, pinkish red. stripes, others have lots. Named after Fokko's wife Katrien. Tube: Sepals: Pinkish red, proportionately broad, held slightly up. Corolla: Medium length & thickness. Light pink (55D) variably striped red (46B). Fully double, purple aging to bluish mauve, ¾ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Sepals: Held half up, with tips recurved. Usually light pink (55D) variably striped red (46B) upper surface and pink (55C) striped red (46B) on the lower surface. Corolla: Quarter flared, turned under petal margins, that Gladys Lorimer have a fine crimped edge, not smooth. Opens light pink (55D) striped & splashed red (46B); matures pink (55C) striped & splashed red (46B), Single but again, this does vary. Foliage: Mid green. H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Foxgrove Wood Lorimer, Peter, (UK) Single 1991 H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) Distinctive hardy with delicious colouring, self-branching, about 76cm (30") tall. Tube: Proportionately short, medium thick, waxy cream 1971 flushed and striped rose (52C). Sepals: Held half up, with strongly RHS AGM recurved tips. 25mm (1") long x 10mm (3\8") wide. Cream flushed rose (52C) on the upper surface, creped rose (52C) on the lower surface. Freely produces enchanting single flowers. Fully merits it's place in the Corolla: Opens red purple (58A), cream at base maturing to magenta garden. Nick reckons this is the prettiest of the hardies, though he will (58B), cream at base edged dark orange (41A). Quarter flared and bell admit it's hard pressed by some of the others. Tube: Pink. Sepals: Pink. shaped. Foliage: Mid green with bronze tints, particularly on young Corolla: Light blue maturing to lilac pink. Foliage: Medium green, slight growth. serrations to edges. Glow Fred Hansford Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Wood, W.P. (UK) Owen, Kenneth, (UK) 1946 1986

The flowers do seem to glow. A reliable hardy fuchsia that flowers very An excellent foliage fuchsia, with neat, upright growth to about 61cm freely. Medium sized upright bush whose longer stems arch attractively. (24"). Leaves are totally different to both Tom West and Versicolour, Tube: Red. Sepals: Red, held slightly down from horizontal when and the flowers are larger and redder than either. It also has dark mature. Corolla: Burgundy-purple, scarlet towards base of petals, little stems. Tube: Medium, deep red. Sepals: Deep red, held slightly down. or no flare. Foliage: Mid green. Corolla: Dark reddish purple, ½ flared. Foliage: Greyish green leaves have a striking cream edge with a hint of pink. Grayrigg Galadriel Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Thornley, Alf, (UK) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) 1988 1985 Award of Merit (VKC, Holland) Dependably hardy, produces gorgeous, delicately coloured flowers very freely. Height and spread around 36"\90cm. Tube: White with green Enjoys a warm sunny position where it will flower particularly well. Tube: flush. Short. Sepals: White with pink tinge and green tips. Corolla: Soft Medium, ivory. Sepals: Ivory tipped with pink. Corolla: Orange\rosy red. pale pink. Foliage: Pale green. Milky-white at base. Foliage: Medium glossy leaves, mid green. Grumpy Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Tabraham, (UK) 1974

This fuchsia always seems to grow more wide than high, though that's not a drawback as such, in the right place it looks superb. Nick's a bit grumpy about his increasing width as well. Tube: Deep pink. Sepals: Deep pink. Corolla: Navy blue maturing violet. Foliage: Mid Green. 47 Hardy A - J

Happy Fellow Jim Watts Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Waltz, Muriel, (US) Hutchins, (UK) 1966 2003

Striking colouration and vigorous upright growth make this a useful A hardy fuchsia with flowers of a similar pale pink colouring of it's container, bedding or border plant. Tube: Light orange. Sepals: Light parent 'Whiteknight's Pearl', but the plant has a much more compact, orange with apple green tips, upturned. Corolla: Orange and smoky neater habit. Tube: Waxy pink. Sepals: Blush pink tipped green. Held rose. Foliage: Light green. horizontal with recurved tips. Corolla: Pale lavender-pink. Foliage: Dark green. (Gooseberry Hill x Whitenight's Pearl) x Margaret Brown. Herald Joan Cooper Single Single H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Sankey, (UK) Wood, W.P. (UK) 1982 1954 RHS AGM Freely produces medium sized boldly coloured blooms. Very easy fuchsia to grow and very rewarding, easily trained, we have seen some An excellent and unusually coloured hardy fuchsia with long slender superb standards at shows. Tube: Scarlet, plump. Sepals: Scarlet, flowers. Tube: White blushed with pale rose pink, slender. Sepals: Very recurved. Corolla: Deep bluish purple with cerise veins. Foliage: pale rose, held horizontally. Corolla: Crimson-raspberry, ½ flared when Medium green. mature. Foliage: Light green.

Howlett's Hardy ↓ Hardy K - Z ↓ Single H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Turner, (UK) 1955 RHS AGM A compact hardy that bears flowers that are quite large for its size and have good strong colour. Tube: Scarlet (46b\c), short, slender. Sepals: Scarlet (46b\c), held fully up. Corolla: Bright violet-purple, scarlet Lady Boothby veining, fading to reddish-purple and ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Isis Raffil, (UK) Single 1939 H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) RHS AGM Lemoine, (FR) Not a climbing fuchsia, but produces very long stems which can either 1880 be trained up a wall etc or left to grow up through other shrubs. This vigorous fuchsia can look spectacular when trained well, and even better when planted under other shrubs and left to grow through. Tube: A good hardy red and purple single, making a bush about 40cm (16") Bright crimson. Sepals: Bright crimson. Corolla: Dark purple with deep tall, and the advantage of dense, dark foliage. Tube: Proportionately crimson pink splashes near base. Foliage: Mid to dark green. short, pinkish red. Sepals: Fairly long, held horizontally, pinkish red. Corolla: Single, purple, ¼ flared. Foliage: Dark green, young growth Lady Thumb very dark with purple tints. Single James Travis H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Double Roe, G, (UK) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) 1966 Thorne, (UK) RHS AGM 1960 Good rockery or border edging, neat and compact grower, flowers well. Makes great mini or quarter standards. Tube: Reddish light carmine, short. Sepals: Reddish light carmine, held ½ down. Corolla: White with Easy and reliable, classic colours, naturally free branching. Makes a pale carmine veining near the base of the petals. ½ flared when mature. bush about 24" tall. Tube: Medium length and thickness, dark pinkish Foliage: Mid green. red. Sepals: Dark pinkish red, held half up, recurved and slightly twisted. Corolla: Warm lavender purple. Foliage: Darkish green.

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Lidie Bartelink Margaret Brown Single Single H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Stoel, Z, (NL) Wood, W.P. (UK) 1990 1949 VKC AM RHS AGM Lidie Bartelink has masses of dainty single flowers opening from Flowers generously on strong growth, with small to medium sized neat slender buds held on surprisingly long pedicels. Virtually self- and compact single flowers which make a lovely display. Highly deadheading, so it always looks tidy. A very hardy, pretty & reliable recommended reliable hardy. Tube: Rose pink. Sepals: Rose pink. fuchsia. Lax, airy growth habit that’s very distinctive. Tube: Medium Corolla: Pale rose pink with deeper pink veining. Foliage: Mid green. sized, dark rose (55A). Sepals: Held horizontally. Also dark rose (55A) on the upper surface, rose (52B) on the lower surface, becoming Mephisto noticeably narrow towards the recurved tips, which are a pale yellowish green. Corolla: Smooth petals, quarter flared in a delicious red purple Single (66B). Foliage: Dark green (147A). H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Little Beauty Reiter, (US) Single 1941 H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) RHS AGM Unknown Some sources say this is hardy, some say it isn't. Well worth growing either way, it's a delightful, cheery little fuchsia. Small flowers of Unknown substance,not in the least flimsy, and freely produced. Tube: A little over 1.5 cm ( 5\8 ") long, slim, and a glowing dark pink red (53C). Sepals: The same colour and length as the tube, held ½ down. Corolla: Neat grower, easy to grow and free flowering. Tube: Bright red, short. About 1cm long, pink purple (71B), quarter flared. Foliage: Mid green. Sepals: Bright red, held horizontally and slightly recurved. Corolla: Strong lavender blue, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Mercurius Lynne Marshall Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) de Groot, (NL) Tabraham, (UK) 1972 1974 RHS AGM Open grower with plentiful flowers in dark purple red and dark pink violet. These are very nicely displayed on 3.5cm pedicels, not hidden Medium sized flowers produced in abundance. Lovely. Tube: A lovely amongst the foliage. Tube: Medium thickness, dark pink red (53C). pale pink. Sepals: Same as the tube. Corolla: Lavender blue. Foliage: A Sepals: Quite thick, 1cm wide, in dark pink red (53C) on the upper pale green. surface and slightly lighter on the lower surface (58B), held horizontally with tips slightly recurved. Corolla: About 2cm long, dark pink violet, Machu Picchu start pleated then open to a slight smooth bell shape, ½ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Mr A Huggett de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Single 1985 H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) VKC AM Huggett, (UK) A prolific bearer of smallish single, brightly coloured flowers. Though lax 1930 the growth is strong and can support the huge swathes of flowers this fuchsia can produce. Tube: Rose pink. Sepals: Rose pink through white tinge to green tips. Corolla: Bright, slightly smoky red. Foliage: Bushy and self branching, beautiful outward facing flowers, corolla Medium green. petals have gorgeous picotee edges. Tube: Scarlet, short. Sepals: Scarlet-cerise. Held horizontally and slightly recurved. Corolla: Pink with Major Heaphy mauve bias. Purple pink edging to petals at base. Foliage: Mid green. Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Niederholzer, (US) 1941

A wonderful old timer, poised and elegant, has vivid flowers that just keep on coming. Naturally bushy and free branching. Tube: Orange red (39B). Sepals: Dark pink red (52A), held horizontally, tips recurved. Corolla: Dark pink red (53C) with a lighter orangey flush towards to base. Smooth petal edges, quarter flared. Foliage: Mid green.

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Mrs Lovell Swisher Phyrne Single Double H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Evans & Reeves, (US) Lemoine, (FR) 1942 1905 RHS AGM Huge quantities of flowers, and though of smallish size the result is Upright & sturdy fuchsia, unusually large frilly double flowers (for a clouds of colour. Needs frequent careful pinching when training, will hardy), in shades of pink and white. Tube: Medium length, rich cerise make large structures\shapes. Tube: White. Sepals: White with green pink. Sepals: Fairly broad and short, same cerise pink, held half up, tips tips, held horizontally with slight reflex. Corolla: Dusky red-violet, ¼ recurved. Corolla: White or pale pink, veined with rich cerise pink. flared. Foliage: Mid Green. Foliage: Mid green.

Mrs Popple President Leo Boullemier Single Single H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Elliot, (UK) Burns, D, (UK) 1899 1983 RHS AGM Very free-flowering, upright and bushy, reliably giving a wonderful Very attractive hardy, flowers open a lovely shade of lavender blue, display all season. Tube: Scarlet, glossy, slender and short. Sepals: maturing to soft magenta. Tube: Fairly short, pinkish white. Sepals: Scarlet, glossy on top, short and broad, held ½ down with slight Medium sized, pinkish white upper surface, a shade darker underneath, recurve. Corolla: Violet-purple fading to rose-red at base. Foliage: Dark held slightly up, tips recurved. Corolla: Half flared, opens soft lavender green, finely serrated leaves. blue, maturing to a nicely toning shade of soft magenta. Foliage: Mid greeen. Parentage: Joy Patmore x Cloverdale Pearl. Mrs W P Wood President Moir Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Wood, W.P. (UK) Moir, (NZ) 1949 1963 RHS AGM Generously produces small, neat and compact single flowers. Reliable hardy fuchsia, a smaller plant than most light coloured hardies. Tube: Exhibits its medium sized abundant flowers against beautiful lush White with pink blush. Sepals: Pale pink with apple green tips. Held bronze foliage. Far less susceptible to fuchsia rust than most. Tube: horizontally and recurved. Corolla: Very pale lavender-pink. Foliage: Mid Bold red. Sepals: Bold red, held horizontally with slight reflex. Corolla: green. Violet with slightly redder edges and veins. Foliage: Glossy green with purple tints and veins, maturing to bold purple bronze. Parentage: Violet Old Somerset Gem x unknown. Single President Norman Hobbs H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Single Clapton Court Gardens, (UK) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) 1982 Bielby\Oxtoby, (UK) 1990 Mainly grown for its superb foliage, absolutely will not tolerate overwatering, or having water sitting in its crown. Rooted cuttings and young plants in particular, can and will rapidly succumb to botrytis if Large but slender blooms, 6cm long. As they mature, each petal watered from above and\or overpotted. Ideally this plant needs an develops a streak of lighter colour, and becomes pleated. Vibrant, especially free draining compost, most easily achieved by adding extra profuse and graceful. Tube: Light orange (40D), 2.5cm (1”) long. plenty of extra perlite. (Not vermiculite) Foliage: Heavily mottled, (even Sepals: Light orange (40D), up to about 4.5cm (1 ¾”) long x 6mm (1\4") when leaves mature) in cream, green and pinkish purple. Unique. wide . Corolla: Opens red (45C) with a dark orange (41A) base maturing to red (45C) streaked vermilion (41D) with smooth petal edges and Pam Plack folded edge. Foliage: Medium green. Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Plack, (UK) 1998 RHS AGM Flowers very profusely, hardy in most of UK, vigorous and easy to grow. Tube: White. Sepals: White, held slightly down. Corolla: Light lilac pink maturing darker, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid green. Sport from 'Margaret Brown'.

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Preston Guild Remember Eric Single Double H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Thornley, Alf, (UK) Johns, Eric, (UK) 1971 2002 RHS AGM Abundant small to medium sized flowers provide a truly eye-catching A truly lovely hardy that produces medium sized, simple and very pretty display, in gorgeous colours. Named for the famous and historic flowers which look splendid against the dark green foliage. Tube: White. Preston Guild, held only once every 20 years. Tube: White with tinge of Sepals: White with pink blush, tipped pale green, held horizontally with green. Sepals: White with apple green tips, curled prettily almost back slight recurve towards tips. Corolla: Petals pink with attractive deeper to the tube when mature. Corolla: Violet blue, darker edges, paler at pink picotee edge. Foliage: Dark green. base. Foliage: Narrowish mid green leaves. Riccartonii Prince of Orange Single Single H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Young, (UK) Banks, Edward, (UK) 1830 1872 RHS AGM Slender blooms on a very vigorous and particularly hardy bush, a very Plentiful small salmon orange flowers and softly pale green leaves useful garden fuchsia which is possibly the most hardy cultivar make this an unusual hardy. Tube: Medium length, soft salmon pink. available. Tube: Bright red. Sepals: Bright red. Corolla: Dark violet. Sepals: Medium length, soft salmon pink, held slightly up, tips slightly Foliage: Dark green. recurved. Corolla: A more orange shade, smooth petals. Foliage: Pale green leaves, very pale stems and veins. Rose of Castile Improved Prosperity Single Double H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Lane. (UK) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) 1871 1974 RHS AGM RHS AGM Free flowering, strong growing, medium to large sized single flowers, capable of a dramatic colourful display. Tube: White with touch of An exceptional hardy, bearing many very beautiful, intensely coloured green. Sepals: Broad, white with pink tinge on top and greenish tips. flowers. Tube: Medium, crimson\red. Sepals: Long, curved well back Corolla: Violet with reddish bias. Foliage: Mid green. over tube, crimson. Corolla: Flushed pink and veined rosy red. Foliage: Glossy mid green. Parentage: Bishops Bells x Strawberry Delight. Rosecroft Beauty Query Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) Eden, (UK) Bass, (UK) 1969 1848 This is a variegated sport of Snowcap with identical. Even more compact in growth. Tube: Fairly short, red. Sepals: The same red as the The beautiful pink and purple flowers are very similar to Chillerton tube, fairly broad, held half up. Corolla: White, with traces of dark pink Beauty, but the plant isn't as big. Self branching and upright growth. veins at the base of the petals, three quarter flared. Foliage: Beautifully Tube: Pale pink, medium thickness, slightly bulbous. Sepals: Pale pink, marked and flushed in creamy yellow and rosy pink on a greyish green darker underneath, held horizontally. Corolla: Purple, maturing to base. magenta, with dark pink veins. Foliage: Mid green. Ruth Red Ace Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Wood, W.P. (UK) Roe, G, (UK) 1949 1983

Abundant medium sized and beautifully coloured blooms on an upright Strong growing and free flowering bush with massed medium sized bushy fuchsia of great character. Tube: Pale rose, short. Sepals: Pale blooms. Self branching and tolerates full sun. Suitable for training as a rose, held slightly down and slightly reflexed. Corolla: Purple red fading standard. Tube: Red. Very. Sepals: Red, glossy. Horizontal with reflex. to rose pink at base of petals. Foliage: Mid green. Corolla: Purple-red. Foliage: Mid green. Habit: Upright bush.

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Scarcity Tausendschön Single Double H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Lye, James, (UK) Nagel, (DE) 1869 1919

It may not have a white tube, but Scarcity has another common James This is a very lovely old variety that flowers freely on a petite bush. Free Lye feature - quality and robustness. About 75cm (30") high, free branching, flowers early. Tube: Short, dark red. Sepals: Quite short and branching with plentiful flowers of excellent form and colour. Tube: broad, dark red, held half up, tips recurved. Corolla: Warm pink, with Quite short and plump, deep glossy scarlet. Sepals: Broad. Deep dark red veins Foliage: Mid green. glossy scarlet, held slightly up, with recurved tips. Corolla: Deep purple, aging to lighter shade. Foliage: Mid green. The Tarns Sealand Prince Single Single H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) Travis, James, (UK) Walker R, & Bees Nurseries, (UK) 1962 1967 Very strong growing hardy fuchsia with abundant very attractive flowers. One of the prettiest hardies. Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Pale pink top, A reliable, upright, vigorous and free-flowering hardy with distinctive rose underside, long and narrow, held ½ down with reflexed tips. sepals held fully up. Tube: Medium length, reddish white, darkening Corolla: Violet-blue, rose at base. Foliage: Dark green. with age. Sepals: Proportionately long, carmine, held fully up, and twisted, with greenish recurved tips. Corolla: Initially dark purple, with a Tom Thumb pink base to each petal, matures violet purple with an almost white flush instead. Foliage: Mid green. Single H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) Sharpitor Baudinar, (FR) Single 1850 H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) RHS AGM National Trust, (UK) This compact and small hardy fuchsia is an excellent choice for small 1974 containers and the front of beds & borders. Also makes good mini RHS AGM standards. Tube: Carmine, short and slender. Sepals: Carmine, shortish and held ¼ down with slightly reflexed tips. Corolla: Mauve with A sport of 'Mrs W P Wood', a similar size and habit to its parent, but not purple bias. Foliage: Mid green. quite as hardy, particularly when young. This cultivar was discovered by Chris Brickell (formerly Director General of the Royal Horticultural Tom West Society) when visiting a National Trust garden in Devon which was then known as "Sharpitor", but is now called "Overbecks". Tube: Thin, white Single with pink blush. Sepals: Slim, pale pink with apple green tips. Held H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) horizontally and recurved. Corolla: Very pale lavender-pink. Foliage: Very small leaves, on short stalks, and lots of them. Mid green with a Meillez, (FR) distinct edge of cream. Some very small leaves will have no chlorophyll at all.. 1853

Star Wars Flowers profusely, smallish sized single, bright flowers which Single complement the beautifully variegated foliage admirably. Tube: Small, red. Sepals: Red, held well out, short and broad. Corolla: Violet\purple. H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Foliage: Pale silvery green, variegated cream, medium sized leaves. Sinton, (UK) Trish's Triumph 2002 Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Liberally produces medium sized very beautiful flowers. Grows well and benefits from generous feeding. Tube: Short, white with maybe a Breach Lane Nursery, (UK) greenish tinge. Sepals: White, green at the tips. Corolla: An extraordinary violet blue, white at the base. Foliage: Lush green which 1999 the flowers show well against.

The bright flowers show well against the attractively variegated foliage. Enjoys a bright, sheltered position, and we recommend taking cuttings each autumn, just in case. Tube: Bright red. Sepals: Bright red. Corolla: Lavender pink. Foliage: Pale green with cream variegation.

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Trudy ↓ Encliandra ↓ Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Gadsby, Cliff, (UK) 1970

A truly beautiful fuchsia that bears the most alluring and attractively coloured bell-shaped blooms. Tube: Ruby. Sepals: Ruby. Corolla: Cyclamen-pink. Foliage: Mid green. Allen Jackson Single Waveney Gem Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Evans, (UK) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) 2007 Burns, D, (UK) 1985 Very prettily coloured little treasure of an encliandra type fuchsia. One for the connoisseur - no that's codswallop, this is such a beauty Early flowers very freely and continuously produced all season. Self everyone should have one. Tube: Pink. Sepals: Pink and white. Corolla: branching and sun tolerant. Tube: Short, white with mauve pink flush. Rose red. Foliage: Lightish mid green, small leaves. Sepals: White with pink flush. Corolla: Mauve with pink tone. Foliage: Mid green. Annie Hall Single Wharfedale Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Breary, (UK) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) 1987 Hanson, (UK) 1993 A lovely little encliandra fuchsia with cute pink flowers and a somewhat RHS AGM lax bushy habit. Tube: Pink. Sepals: Pink. Corolla: Pink. Foliage: Mid Naturally grows as an upright spreading bush, easy to grow and green. vigorous with abundant flowers. Tube: White with very pale pink stripes. Sepals: Pale pink blush. Horizontal with full recurve. Corolla: Purple- Ariel pink, fading to white at base. ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green. Single Whiteknight's Amethyst H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Single Travis, James, (UK) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) 1973 Wright, (UK) 1980 Charming encliandra hybrid, as pretty as you could wish for and easy to grow and train. Tube: Magenta red. Sepals: Magenta with green tips. Corolla: Deep magenta red. Foliage: Dark green glossy tiny leaves. A vigorous and dependably hardy fuchsia that can tolerate full sun with ease. Blue pollen draws the eye. Tube: Crimson. Sepals: Deep Bryan Breary crimson, held ¼ down with recurve. Corolla: Purple-violet. Foliage: Dark green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Whiteknight's Pearl Breary, Brian, (UK) Single 1995 H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Wright, (UK) A very pretty and easy to grow encliandra type. Has a slightly larger 1980 flower than the average encliandra. Ideal for training as bonsai. Flower: Miniature. Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Pink, darker towards tips and RHS AGM darkening overall with maturity. Corolla: None. Foliage: Mid to dark Resembles it's parent, F. magellanica var. molinae but has larger green. flowers. An excellent hardy fuchsia. Tube: White, thin, medium length. Sepals: Pale pink with apple green tips. Held slightly down from horizontal with small recurve at tips. Corolla: Clear pink, rounded petals. Foliage: Dark green, fairly small leaves. Parentage: F. magellanica var. molinae x (F. magellanica var. molinae x F. fulgens).

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Cinnabarina F. x bacillaris 'Reflexa' Single Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Unknown Unknown c. 1829 Unknown

A cute encliandra type with tiny miniature flowers, the resulting berries Fast growing encliandra fuchsia capable of making a large plant if given are surprisingly large and an attractive feature. Vigorous bushy growth, the chance. Easy to train. Tube: Fuchsia pink. Sepals: Fuchsia pink, reckoned to be resistant to gall mite. Ideal hardy encliandra for darker tips. Corolla: Fuchsia pink, ¾ flared. Foliage: Mid green. rockeries and front of border. Reaches 20in (50cm). Tube: Orangey rose-pink. Sepals: Orangey red. Corolla: Red. Foliage: Mid green. Fiona Pitt F. obconica Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Saunders, (UK) Breedlove, D 1989 1967 Very vigorous bushy little encliandra type fuchsia bearing tiny but numerous flowers. Tube: Scarlet. Sepals: Purple scarlet. Corolla: Very Locally abundant shrub in forests of Pinus and Quercus in scattered pale pink on opening, darkening to proper fuchsia pink when mature. localities on the lower mountains of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt Foliage: Mid green. from Jalisco to Morelos, Mexico, 1,700–2,400 m. 1m to 3m in the wild. Flower: Single. Tube: White, pink or green tinge at top. Sepals: White Frances Haskins fading through green to pink. Corolla: White showing some pink when mature. Foliage: Glossy Green. Tiny leaves. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) F. ravenii Boor, Peter, (UK) Single 1997 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Breedlove, D Naturally bushy encliandra type fuchsia which is very good for training 1969 into rings\hoops or other shapes. Tube: White. Sepals: White. Corolla: White. Foliage: Light green. Seedling from White Clove.

Naturally bushy encliandra type fuchsia bearing profuse red-pink tiny Fuksie Foetsie flowers. Tube: Red-pink. Sepals: Red-pink . Corolla: Red-pink. Foliage: Light green. Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) F. thymifolia Van der Grijp, (NL) Single 1979 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth A naturally bushy and free-flowering encliandra fuchsia, a true little 1823 beauty. Tube: White, rose blush. Sepals: Pale rose. Corolla: Pale rose. Foliage: Mid green.

Very prolific flowering encliandra fuchsia, the resulting berries are also Gris attractive. Tube: Fuchsia pink. Sepals: Fuchsia pink . Corolla: Fuchsia pink. Foliage: Mid to dark green. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) F. x bacillaris 'Cottinghamii' Unknown Single Unknown H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Alberta, (CA) A bit of a mystery encliandra as we can't find anything out about it. Has 1982 silvery grey leaves, very attractive. Tube: Sepals: Corolla: Foliage: Small, silverey grey leaves.

Vigorous little hardy encliandra fuchsia, makes a very good bonsai. Tube: Pink. Sepals: Pink with green tips. Corolla: Light pink. Foliage: Mid green.

54 Encliandra

Jan van Erp Laura Cross Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Keijzer, A. G. (NL) Strickland-Evans, (UK) 1998 1999

A charming little pink flower, growth more open than a typical An encliandra type fuchsia which liberally produces miniature brightly encliandra. Well displayed berries. Tube: Medium, deep pink. Sepals: coloured flowers. One of our favourites. Tube: Short, bright pink. Deep pink, held half down. Corolla: Slightly paler pink, ¾ flared. Sepals: Bright pink. Corolla: Orangey pink. Foliage: Dark green, tiny Foliage: Small, mid greeen leaves. (F. cylindracea x F. encliandra var. leaves with crinkly edges. Tetradactyla) Lottie Hobby Jimmy Cricket Single Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Edwards, (UK) Strickland, Trevor, (UK) 1839 1998

Very vigorous encliandra, with wiry stems, often used for training Produces lots of cute flowers and is quite a vigorous fuchsia, producing around shaped structures. Deservedly popular. Tube: Light crimson. long stems laden with scented flowers. Tube: Pink. Sepals: Pink and Sepals: Light crimson. Corolla: Pale purple. Foliage: Mid to dark green. white. Corolla: Coral pink. Foliage: Mid green, petite. Mrs Lee Belton Just Pink Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Morrison, Jill, (UK) Strickland, Trevor, (UK) 2007 1997

A fairly vigorous encliandra, with pinkish orangey self coloured flowers Naturally bushy growth, bears petite pale pink flowers, another and a lobed pink stigma. Tube: Medium length, pinkish orange. Sepals: encliandra type fuchsia that makes good bonsai. Tube: Ruby & pink. Pinkish orange, held horizontally, tips slightly reflexed. Corolla: Fully Sepals: Pale pink. Corolla: Pale pink. Foliage: Mid green. flared,Pinkish orange. Foliage: Mid green.

Katinka Neopolitan Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Goedman, (NL) Clark, Dave, (UK) 1989 1984

Fuchsia Katinka bears slightly larger flowers than most encliandra An unusual scented encliandra fuchsia that carries white pink and red types, to great effect it must be said. A gem. Tube: Fuchsia pink and flowers all at the same time. Tube: White pink and red. Sepals: White scarlet. Sepals: Scarlet with orangey overtones. Corolla: Red with pink and red. Corolla: White pink and red. Foliage: Dark green. orangey overtones. Foliage: Mid to dark green. Obcylin Kirsten de Keijzer Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Beije, Martin de Keijzer, (NL) 1997 Unknown

A first rate easy and vigorous encliandra, recommended. Free This has flowers with distinct orangey centres, and a pink, lobed stigma; flowering, often with more than one flower per node. Sometimes called very attractive. Tube: Medium length, slightly bulbous, rich pink. Sepals: 'Obcilin'. Tube: Short, light orangey pink. Sepals: Held slightly up, light Rich pink upper, ditto below but with a greenish yellow patch in the orangey pink. Corolla: Fully flared, orange. Foliage: Mid green. middle, held ½ down. Corolla: Quite short, broad petals, fully flared, rich Parentage: F. obconica x F. cylindracea. pink overlaid with deep orange. Foliage: Mid green.

55 Encliandra

O'Carol Shawna Ree Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Strickland, Trevor, (UK) Pike, (US) 2005 1985

Encliandra type fuchsia that liberally produces tiny but perfect single Surpassingly pretty encliandra fuchsia with a slightly lax habit, easy to flowers. Seldom needs pinching out. Tube: White with pink blush. grow and train. Tube: White. Sepals: Pale red-violet, darkens as the Sepals: White with green tinge. Corolla: Pink with white blush. Foliage: flower matures. Corolla: Palest violet-pink. Foliage: Mid to dark green. Mid green and small. Siberoet Orange Star Single Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Boer, J, (NL) Robson, J & L, (UK) 2000 2002 Botanical Award, Aalsmeer, 2000 An obconica hybrid with flowers closely resembling the encliandra type, This is a cutie; tiny spiky little dark pinkish orange flowers that stick out very appealing. Tube: About 1cm (½") long, pale pink (56B). Sepals: in all directions on an open and upright bush. Tube: Slender and Pale pink (56B) half down, tips reflexed, 6mm (¼") long. Corolla: Half proportionately long, dark pinkish orange. Sepals: Quite long and thin, flared, bell shaped, smooth petal edges. Opens white; matures pale held ½ up, dark pinkish orange. Corolla: Dark orange, ¾ flared. Foliage: pink (56D). Foliage: Mid green, much bigger than normal encliandra Mid green, more sparse than most. types. Parentage: F. apetala x F. obconica

Oulton Hoya Snowflake Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Payne, (UK) Strickland, Trevor, (UK) 2008 1998

Self branching encliandra fuchsia that with very little pinching produces Naturally self branching and bushy encliandra type fuchsia that a very dense bushy plant. Great for shapes and bonsai. Tube: Pale produces lots of cute flowers, highly recommended for showing. Tube: rose. Sepals: Pale rose with darker tips. Corolla: White with pink tinge. White. Sepals: White with green tips. Corolla: White. Foliage: Mid Foliage: Mid green. Green.

Oulton Tu-Fu Straat of Plenty Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Payne, (UK) de Boer, J, (NL) 1998 2002 NKvF AM An extraordinarily pretty, small encliandra fuchsia, liberally produces An unusual F. obconica hybrid, flowers larger larger than typical tiny but stunning single flowers. Tube: Fresh pink. Sepals: Pink, short. encliandra types, carried in profuse terminal clusters. Prominent pale Corolla: Pretty pink. Foliage: Mid to dark green, a bit glossy, serrated pink stigma. Tube: About 2cm (¾") long, pale pink (56C). Sepals: Held edges to the leaves. fully up, tips recurved, rose (63C). 6mm (¼") long. Corolla: Short, fully flared; smooth petal margins; opens and matures pale pink (56C). Radings Michelle Foliage: Large dark green leaves. Parentage: F. obconica x [(F. procumbens x F. paniculata) x Igloo Maid] Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Sweet Sarah Reiman, (NL) Single 1986 H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Lee, (US)

A vigorous encliandra type fuchsia producing long wiry stems bearing 1999 many tiny but cute flowers. Tube: Magenta-rose. Sepals: Magenta-rose, darker at tips. Corolla: Light rose-magenta. Foliage: Mid to dark green. Self branching and bushy fuchsia bearing many adorable flowers on long, slightly lax stems. Easy to grow and train into any shape. Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Coral pink. Corolla: Coral pink. Foliage: Mid green.

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Think Pink ↓ Species & Hybrids ↓ Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Plows, Redine, (US) 2009

Flowers profusely, even as a young plant, easy to grow. Notable resistance to gall mite. Flowers are pale pink in shade. Tube: 5mm (¼") long x 4mm (⅛") wide. Dark rose (54A.) Sepals: 4mm (⅛") long x 2mm Anneke de Keijzer (1/16") wide, upper surface dark rose (54A), lower is paler (54B). Held horizontally, recurved tips. Corolla: Rose (55B). Fully flared, 8mm ( ⅜"). Single Foliage: Dark green (147A). H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Tomarama de Keijzer, (NL) Single 1998 H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Fuchsiarama, (ES) Numerous medium sized tubular flowers, a much underrated fuchsia. Also referred to as Anita de Keijzer. Tube: Long, thin, orange. Sepals: 1987 Deep rose red fading to orange. Corolla: Orange. Foliage: Green lush and fairly dense.

A beautiful encliandra type with somewhat lax growth and ability to Atahualpa produce long arching stems bearing numerous cute little flowers. Tube: Light pink. Sepals: Light pink. Corolla: Palest pink. Foliage: Mid green. Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Toosje Vantveer Beije, Martin, (NL) Single 2000 H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Smits, A, (NL) Flowers profusely, medium\large flower on a large vigorous bush. Quite 2012 spectacular. Tube: Long, Red\orange. Sepals: Orange\red. Corolla: Orange. Bright. Foliage: Dark green, lush and fairly dense. NKvF R An unusual encliandra with truly tiny dark orange red flowers freely Daryn John Woods produced, (along with proportionately large black berries) on a free branching plant. Tube: dark red (53A); short, thin. Only 4mm (⅛") Single long, half as wide. Sepals: Held horizontally, tips recurved; dark red H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) (53A) only 2mm long, half as wide. Corolla: Fully flared, opens and matures dark orange red (N34A). Only 2mm long and half as wide. Goulding, Edwin, (UK) Foliage: Mid green, leaves larger than a normal encliandra type. 2000 Parentage: F. cylindracea x F. paniculata.

Variegated Lottie Hobby The unusually coloured flowers appear a little later in the season but Single look superb against the dark green foliage. Makes a lovely pot or small container fuchsia. Tube: Aubergine-violet. Sepals: Aubergine-violet. H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Corolla: Purple. Foliage: Dark green. Thalia x F. juntasensis. Hubbard, Leon, (US) F. boliviana 1992 Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) A slow growing encliandra type fuchsia, very appealing but one for the patient grower. Well worth the wait though, likes a bright position, water Carriére, (BO) carefully. Tube: Rose. Sepals: Rose. Corolla: N\A. Foliage: Variegated 1882 foliage, silvery green with cream. Ideally it's a good idea to keep this one growing all year round, unless palnted in the garden.

White Clove Large bunches of gorgeous, very long, bold crimson flowers. Very handsome species fuchsia. The berries of both this and F. boliviana Single alba are excellent and widely sold in markets throoughout South America for eating fresh or cooked and making into jams etc. Tube: H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Bright Scarlet. Very long funnel shaped. Sepals: Bright Scarlet, short. Unknown Corolla: Bold Bright Scarlet. Foliage: Large elongated mid green leaves covered in fine hair. Habit: Bushy upright plant. Photo reproduced with Unknown kind permission of Lyn & Malcolm Ovens. Section: Fuchsia.

Unusual encliandra type fuchsia whose slender stems can reach 39" (1m) high, ideal for training into hoops and other shapes. Often sold as hardy. Tube: White, long for type. Sepals: Pale mauve-pink. Corolla: Pale mauve-pink, darker when mature. Foliage: Mid green.

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F. boliviana Alba F. glaziovana Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) Carriére, (BO) Taubert, (BR) 1876 1888

Large bunches of gorgeous, very long, white pink and crimson flowers. One of the easiest and least troublesome, has proven resistance to Another very handsome fuchsia. The berries of both this and F. rust, red spider mite and white fly. Completely resistant to Fuchsia Gall boliviana are excellent and widely sold in markets throoughout South Mite, this species is attracting more and more interest from hybridisers America for eating fresh or cooked and making into jams etcp. Tube: for its virtual invulnerability. Originating in the cloud forests of southern Very long funnel shaped. White. Sepals: Fully reflexed, short, flushed Brazil, this species has bright green leaves, produced in whorls of pink, green tips. Corolla: Bold crimson red. Foliage: Large elongated three, which have a shiny finish and a faint bronze tinge particularly to mid green leaves covered in fine hair. Section: Fuchsia. their underside. Flower: Single. Tube: Deep pink, slender. Sepals: Deep pink, slightly lighter underneath, held ½ down with slight reflex. Corolla: F. coccinea Deep violet, no flare. Foliage: Bright mid green. Section: Quelusia. Single H6 (Min -20 to -15°C) F. hatschbachii Kew Gardens, (UK) Single 1789 H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Berry, P, (BR)

A very appealing and pretty little fuchsia, dainty and elegant flowers. 1985 Free-flowering. Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Rich rose pink, quite long. Corolla: Dark purple, small, neat. Foliage: Mid green, small leaves. Reckoned to be quite a rare species fuchsia. Has a rather wiry growth F. colensoi purpurescens habit and may need some support, uses other shrubs and climbers for support in the wild and can easily be trained into very tall shapes. Single Lovely long, arching stems with lots of elegant flowers. Tube: Red. H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Sepals: Red, held flared downwards. Corolla: Violet. Foliage: Mid green medium sized long leaves. Section: Quelusia. Hooker, (NZ) 1867 F. juntasensis Single

One of the few species fuchsias from New Zealand, an interesting plant H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) with its green flowers and blue pollen. Tube: Green. Sepals: Green. Kuntze, (BO) Corolla: None. Foliage: Mid green with a distinct bronzy purple cast. Section: Skinnera 1898

F. denticulata A species fuchsia which clearly demonstrates the variety within the Single genus. Often flowers during the winter and has been observed growing H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) epiphytically in the wild, Produces large orange fruits. Tube: Long, lilac with purple veins. Sepals: Lilac to pale lilac at tips. Corolla: No corolla Ruiz & Pavon, (PE) but has spectacular stamen with purple filaments and bright orange anthers. Foliage: Narrowish dark green leaves which can be quite 1802 large - between 2" & 4" . Section: Hemsleyella.

F. loxensis Prefers slightly cooler conditions than most. Tube: Long, pink\red. Sepals: Red through white to green tips. Corolla: Scarlet to red. Foliage: Single Narrow dark green leaves with reddish underside. Section: Fuchsia. H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth F. fulgens var Variegata 1823 Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) A species fuchsia bearing very brightly coloured flowers which is easy de Candolle, (ME) to grow and propagate. Tube: Deep pink. Sepals: Deep pink with green tips. Corolla: Orange. Foliage: Mid green. Section: Fuchsia. 1828

One of the easiest species fuchsias to grow even though it needs extra warmth in winter and plenty of pot space for its tuberous roots. Tube: Pale red. Sepals: Short, pale red and yellowish green towards the tips. Corolla: Bright red. Foliage: Large pale green variegated with cream, pink and light green. Section: Ellobium.

58 Species & Hybrids

F. lycioides F. regia ssp. serrae Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Andrews, (CL) Unknown 1800 Unknown

F. lycioides grows on the edge of the Atacama Desert and is limited to Generally reckoned to be the most free-flowering fuchsia amongst the a narrow coastal strip in central Chile, a rather hostile environment with F. regia subspecies, very vigorous and can get to be a large bush. only moderate winter rainfall and long dry summers. Mature specimens Tube: Bold red. Sepals: Bold red, held half down and recurved slightly. are drought tolerant due to the tuberous roots and this fuchsia should Corolla: Purple. Foliage: Dark green, small slender leaves with red not be over watered especially during winter. Tube: Smoky pink. veining. Sepals: Pink with green tips. Corolla: A red purple. Foliage: Long matt green leaves. Section: Kierschlegeria. F. splendens F. magellanica Gracilis Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Zuccarini, (MX) Unknown 1832 c. 1790 RHS AGM Fuchsia splendens is the most widely distributed of all the species within the section ellobium and has been observed on rare occasions Slender, smallish flowers in profusion, strong wiry stems, a very growing as an epiphyte. Flowers all year in the wild and will do so in the vigorous and elegant fuchsia. Tube: Scarlet red, shortish. Sepals: UK if conditions are suitable. Is a bit like F. juntasensis as it likes Scarlet red, held ¾ down. Corolla: Purple, shading scarlet purple flowering in the months having shorter days. Tube: Coral red, towards base of petals. Foliage: Mid green. somewhat flattened\pinched just past the ovary, length varies. Sepals: Coral red, then green. Corolla: Green. Foliage: Mid green. Section: F. procumbens Ellobium. Single F. venusta H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Single Cunningham, (NZ) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) 1834 Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth 1801 A hardy species fuchsia from New Zealand whose flowers are unusual, tiny, upward looking and have bright blue pollen. You can keep seed from the mature fruits of this plant and they will produce new plants of Definitely one of the most sensational species fuchsias. Bold colours, the same species. Tube: Green, yellow and red. Sepals: Green, short, generous flowering, beautiful shiny foliage and stunningly attractive purple tipped. Corolla: There isn't one. Foliage: Green with grey\silver flower shape, all combine to grab your attention and please the eye. A undersides. Heart shaped tiny leaves. . little difficult to propagate and it doesn't like full sun at all, happiest in well dappled shade. Tube: Greenish orange blending to bright red, long F. procumbens 'Wirral' and gently flaring. Sepals: Bright red, slender & spiky, held just below horizontal. Corolla: Bright orange-red, slender flared petals. Foliage: Single Lightish green, shiny. H4 (Min -10 to -5°C) Aurea (F. magellanica x) Unknown Single Unknown H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) Unknown A borderline hardy species fuchsia whose origins appear to be unknown. The flowers are unusual, tiny, upward looking and have bright Unknown blue pollen. Tube: Green, yellow and red. Sepals: Green, short, purple RHS AGM tipped. Corolla: There isn't one. Foliage: Green variegated with grey\silver undersides. Heart shaped tiny leaves. Section: Superb fuchsia for brightening up a dull or shady corner, performs Procumbentes. especially well in dappled shade. Leaves tend to burn a little in strong direct sun. Tube: Scarlet (46a), slender. Sepals: Scarlet (46a), held ¾ down. Corolla: Dark purple (83A) pinkish red (64B) at base, held ½ down. Foliage: Golden yellow leaves with red midrib on rich red stems.

59 Species & Hybrids

Versicolor (F. magellanica x) Javelin Single Single H5 (Min -15 to -10°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Unknown Brouwer, (NL) Unknown 1990 RHS AGM VKC AM Bears slender, smallish flowers in profusion on strong wiry stems, a An adaptable and beautiful fuchsia that can be trained into baskets or very vigorous fuchsia that is often used to make colourful hedges. as a standard, pillar or fan. Very useful. Tube: Crimson, longish and Tube: Scarlet red, shortish. Sepals: Scarlet red, held ¾ down. Corolla: slim. Sepals: Cardinal red on top, crimson under, green tips. Held Purple, shading scarlet purple towards base of petals. Foliage: Grey- horizontal with recurved tips, fully recurved when mature. Corolla: Deep green, young growth rose tinted, creamy-white irregular variegation. red. Foliage: Dark green.

First Success Lechlade Debutante Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Weeda, B, (NL) Wright, (UK) 1985 1984

A very pretty fuchsia species hybrid bearing very pretty small flowers in Fuchsia Lechlade Debutante really appreciates sun and warmth and paniculate clusters. Tube: Pink, slender. Sepals: Light pink, held flowers freely all summer. Tube: Pale pink. Sepals: Pale pink, green on horizontally, green tips. Corolla: Light pink, ¼ flared. Foliage: Medium upper half, held horizontally with reflexed tips. Corolla: Clear pink. green, large leaves. F. paniculata x F. splendens. Foliage: Dark green on top, paler underneath. F. paniculata x f. lampadaria. Grasmere Lechlade Maiden Single Single H3 (Min 1 to -5°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Travis, James, (UK) Wright, (UK) 1964 1985

A very fast growing fuchsia bearing masses of long single flowers produced towards the end of it's branches. Lax bush\semi-trailing habit, This is a steady and reliable grower, quite happy in shady areas, just very useful in containers or baskets. Flowers profusely for a very long potters along and does it's own thing. Very enjoyable. Tube: Rose pink. time. Self dead heading. Recommended. Tube: Longish, slim , coral Sepals: Pale lemony green. Corolla: Pale pink with darker egdes. red. Sepals: Coral red, green tipped. Corolla: Bold coral pink. Foliage: Foliage: Dark green, slightly hairy matt finish. Dark green, large leaved, lush, and younger leaves show a pinkish base. F.cordifolia x F.lycoides. Lechlade Martianess Herps Bazuin Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Wright, (UK) Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) 1985 2004 VKC AM Not a common fuchsia, but worth growing for it's subtle colours and unusual shaped single flowers. Sometimes erroneously known as This superb, vigorous and easy fuchsia starts producing it's clusters of Lechlade Marchioness. Tube: Long, bulging, pale orange. Sepals: giant tubular orange flowers from a young age. Fabulous leaves too. Short, green, downward flare. Corolla: Pale orange with increasing pink Wonderful. Tube: Slim, just under 10cm (4") long, light orange (33C). blush as matures. Petals edged buttery cream on the inside. Foliage: Sepals: Orange (33B) upper, peach (33D) lower, fully down, reflexed Pale green large leaves. Parentage: (F.fulgens x F.splendens) x tips. Corolla: Opens and matures dark orange (33A), about 1cm (½") F.splendens. long and wide. Foliage: Huge, soft, dark green leaves with red veins and stalks. Lunters Klokje Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Appel, (NL) 1988

Grows stiffly upright and when heavy in flower the stems arch somewhat, making a very beautiful plant altogether. Tube: Bright pinky red with a faint orange tinge, paler in the middle, longish, flaring. Sepals: Bright pink\red, flared with green tips. Corolla: Bright pinky red, flaring. Foliage: Mid to dark green.

60 Species & Hybrids

Miep Aalhuizen Rubra Grandiflora (F. fulgens x) Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Henderson, (UK) 1986 c. 1880

Unusual cultivar with differently shaped flowers. Capable of reaching 6- A strong growing, lush, species hybrid with very long tubular flowers 8ft (1.8-2.4m) in suitable conditions, very vigorous. Tube: Lilac-pink, borne in bunches at the ends of the branches, in a similar fashion to a longish and tapering. Sepals: Lilac-rose. Held horizontally. Corolla: Lilac- true triphylla. Needs a large pot and min temperatures around 9-10°C. rose. Flared. Foliage: Mid green. Parentage: F. paniculata x F. venusta. Water sparingly in the cooler months. Tube: Red, very long. Sepals: Red through yellow to green tips, held ½ down. Corolla: Red-vermilion, ½ flared. Foliage: Yellowish green when young maturing to lightish sage Northumbrian Pipes green with slight red veining, large, finely haired leaves. Single Shuna Lindsay H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Single de Graaf, Herman, (NL) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) 1983 Travis, James, (UK) 1980 Very easy to grow, with abundant and very attractive flowers. Tube: Long, from maroon to pink. Sepals: Pink with green tinge at tips. Short and held half down. Corolla: Pale lilac rose, half flared. Foliage: Medium Produces lots of stunning flowers which display well against the red- green, medium sized leaves. veined dark foliage. Named after the hybridiser's grand-daughter. Tube: Long, vermilion fading to pink. Sepals: Pink to white to green at the tips. Nuance Corolla: Orange, pink at the base. Foliage: Dark fairly narrow leaves with aubergine veining. Single H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Straat Magelhaen de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Single 2001 H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) VKC AM de Boer, J, (NL) A very attractive species hybrid fuchsia that bears copious amounts of 1996 long tubed single flowers on long arching stems. Tube: Long and tapered, a rich purple red. Sepals: Rich purple red with green at the tips. Corolla: Dark reddish violet. Foliage: Mid to dark green, reddish A true trailing and creeping fuchsia that will weep down over tall veins. containers or hang down from baskets easily up to 3ft (90cm) or more. Doesn't produce a huge amount of flowers but is a very unusual and Red Rain interesting plant. Very easy to grow and propagate. Tube: Green with maroon undertones. Sepals: Green with dark red tinges. Corolla: None. Single Foliage: Mid green, small heart shaped leaves. H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Taco de Graaf, Herman, (NL) Single 1986 H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) NKvF AM de Boer, J, (NL) Although the flowers are fairly small so many are produced that the whole plant is a blaze of bold colour, giving a wonderful display. Tube: 1997 Bold dark red, proportionately long. Sepals: Bold dark red, slightly lighter underneath, held just below horizontal with slight reflex. Corolla: Rich red, ¼ flared. Foliage: Light yellowish green, red veins and This amazes us, if it wasn't so obsessed with chucking out great branches. Parentage: (F. lycioides x F.magellanica) x F. triphylla. bunches of stunningly beautiful flowers it would get to be a big plant. Very stiff upright growth which can be brittle. Tube: Reddish pink, long. Rijs 2001 (aka Rÿs 2001) Sepals: Rose pink blending to lemon and finally to apple green at the tips. Corolla: Rose, small and flared into separate slender petals. Single Foliage: Mid to dark green with lovely red veins and stems. H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) de Boer, J, (NL) 2001

An intriguing species hybrid that looks like a giant encliandra in flower, but with more normal fuchsia leaves, recommended for hanging baskets. (Colours paler in shade.) Tube: Dark rose (55A), 14mm (8 ½") long, 6mm (½") wide. Sepals: Light greenish white (157D) held half down, tips recurved. Corolla: Half flared, square shaped, with smooth petal margins, opens and matures white (155A). Foliage: Dark green. Parentage: F. obconica x F. splendens. 61 Species & Hybrids

Tarra Valley Coralle Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Felix, (NL) Bonstedt, (DE) 1987 1905

An unusual and subtly beautiful species hybrid bearing small intriguing Bunches of long, tapered, single flowers produced towards the ends of and unusual flowers. Tube: Long for size of flower, pale olive green. the stems, flowers generously, an old but reliable triphylla fuchsia which Sepals: Light green with aubergine edging. Corolla: Rich is still deservedly popular. Tube: Long, thin, salmon orange. Sepals: plum\aubergine. Foliage: Medium green above, paler green underneath. Salmon orange, short. Corolla: Again, salmon orange. Foliage: Sage Parentage: F.colensoi x F.splendens. green with lighter veins.

Vendeta Dharlah Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Blaber, (UK) de Cooker, Mario, (NL) 2002 2011 NKvF R A particularly beautiful species hybrid fuchsia that has numerous long, Mario de Cooker describes his fuchsia as follows:. "The triphylla hybrid medium sized single flowers. Makes a spectacular standard and is easy fuchsia 'Dharlah' is a vigorous, upright growing fuchsia, which can be to train into one, though good support is necessary as one of these as a grown as a bush, pillar or standard. It has, amongst others, 'Göttingen' standard needs a large head on it to get the weeping effect it needs, and 'Our Ted' in its parentage. Best colour is obtained if the pink flowers due to the stiff stems. Tube: Long and raspberry red in colour. Sepals: are protected from direct sunlight. Indications exist that 'Dharlah' is Short, raspberry red with green tips. Corolla: Long and flared, orange. hardy, and this will be tested further in the coming years. If this is a real Foliage: Mid green glossy. Hybrid of F. venusta x F. denticulata. hardy cultivar it could give an excellent display in a lightly shaded border area, growing up to a height of about 1.5 metresd (5ft) within a couple of months". . It certainly is a very vigorous and beautiful fuchsia. WALZ Lucifer Tube: Pale rose pink. Sepals: Pale rose pink, held ½ down and slightly reflexed. Corolla: White with pale rose pink blush, ¼ flared. Foliage: Single Dark green. (Photo by kind permission of Mario de Cooker). H2 (Min 1 to 5°C) Erika Köth Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL) Single 1991 H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Nutzinger, Karl, (AT) Described by its hybridiser as 'pendant or floppy bush for place in sun and bright light' this lovely fuchsia starts early and produces flush after 1976 flush of bloom. Tube: Rose pink, proportionately long and slender. Sepals: Rose pink with tiny green tips, held horizontally and slightly reflexed towards the tips. Corolla: Orange with rose veining, sometimes Strongly upright growing triphylla fuchsia bearing masses of flower, has more orange-rose overall, ¼ flared. Foliage: Mid green leaves with absolutely zero tolerance of frost. Tube: Rose-orange. Sepals: Rose- lighter green veins, stems and branches. Parentage: F. magellanica orange. Corolla: Rose-orange. Foliage: Olive green, roundish leaves. var. conica rosea x F. fulgens Rubra Grandiflora. Fred Swales ↓ Triphylla ↓ Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Bielby\Oxtoby, (UK) 1988

A rather lax growing triphylla fuchsia bearing bunches of long tapering single flowers in terminal racemes. Tube: Long, orange\red. Sepals: Orange. Corolla: Orange. Foliage: Medium to large leaves, mid\darkish Andenken an Heinrich Henkel green, with red stems and veins. Single Georg Börnemann H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Single Rehnelt, Friedrich, (DE) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) 1996 Bonstedt, (DE) 1905 Fuchsias have to be good to remain popular for over a century, and this one is no exception. An easy to grow triphylla that flowers freely and RHS AGM has magnificent foliage. Tube: Light reddish pink. Sepals: Light reddish Triphylla type bearing bunches of reddish salmon-pink tubular flowers. pink. Corolla: Light crimson red. Foliage: Dark Green. Vigorous and easy to grow. Tube: Reddish salmon-pink. Sepals: Reddish salmon-pink. Corolla: Orange-pink. Foliage: Mid Green. 62 Triphylla

Göttingen Noblesse Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Bonstedt, (DE) Moerman, (NL) 1904 1987

Göttingen is an easy to grow triphylla typr fuchsias bearing many large Noblesse is a vigorous triphylla with beautiful perky, pink, candy striped bunches of orange-red flowers. Tube: Orange red. Sepals: Orangey flowers. Tube: Rose pink with darker stripes. Sepals: Rose pink with red. Corolla: Coral red. Foliage: Dark green. tiny apple green tips. Corolla: Bold rose pink. Foliage: Mid green.

John Maynard Scales Orient Express Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Goulding, Edwin, (UK) Goulding, Edwin, (UK) 1905 1985 RHS AGM RHS AGM A vigorous and easy triphylla type fuchsia carrying numerous large A lovely fuchsia whose vigorous upright growth needs frequent pinching dense bunches of salmon-orange tubular flowers. Tube: Orange with a out in early stages in order to produce a well-shaped plant. The results salmony-pink cast. Sepals: Orange with a salmony-pink cast. Corolla: are truly lovely. Flower: Single. Tube: Pink with darker stripes, long. Pink with orange overtones. Foliage: Dark Green. Sepals: Pale pink, held ½ down. Corolla: Rose-pink, ¼ flared when mature. Foliage: Mid-green, large leaves. Leverkusen Phaidra Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Hartnauer, (DE) Cooker, Mario de, (NL) 1923 1999

Gives an impressive display, bearing absolutely masses of smallish but bright flowers. Unusual triphylla type in that it produces flowers mainly Superb looking fuchsia that flowers well but not as heavily as some, from the leaf axils. Reputedly does not like changes in atmosphere. however the flowers look fabulous against the backdrop of dark foliage Tube: Rose-cerise, stubby and bulging. Sepals: Rose-cerise, Held half and give a pleasing balanced appearance overall. Tube: Rich rose red, down with reflexed tips. Corolla: Rosy cerise with orange tint. Foliage: long in proportion to the entire flower. Sepals: Rich rose red with dark Medium green leaves. green-red tip, held slightly down and recurved towards the tip. Corolla: Deep rose pink with scarlet veining, ½ flared when mature. Foliage: Mary Dark green. Single Piper's Vale H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Single Bonstedt, (DE) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) 1897 Stannard, (UK) RHS AGM 1992 This is unquestionably one of the very best triphylla fuchsias. Superb, well deserves its place in anyone's collection. Still winning on the show bench. Tube: Bold electric crimson. Sepals: Bright electric crimson, True triphylla fuchsia, terminal flowering type. Massed bunches of long held fully up. Corolla: Bright electric crimson, ¾ flared. Foliage: Dark brightly coloured flowers, a real beauty. Tube: Long, pink. Sepals: Pink, green with deep red veining. held half down. Corolla: Deeper pink. Foliage: Medium green.

Monty Python Pledle Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Van den Burgh, (NL) Unknown 1994 Unknown VKC AM With its strong spreading growth, and continuous terminal flowering Pledle is a very dark plant. Not only because of its leaf and flower after initial burst of bloom, this triphylla fuchsia is superb in mixed colour but because it's a bit of a mystery. we can't find out anything containers or large hanging baskets. Tube: Orange-pink, long. Sepals: about its history or origins at all, if you know anything about it please Bright orange with salmon pink tips, held ½ down and slightly reflexed. share with us.. Tube: Rose red blending to red-violet. Sepals: Red-violet Corolla: Deep orange. Foliage: Lightish mid green. with plum tips. Corolla: Rich mulberry. Foliage: Dark green.

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Roos Breytenbach Tauden's Heil Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Stannard, (UK) Unknown, (US) 1993 Unknown

An appealing triphylla type fuchsia that bears long, elegant, single A deservedly popular triphylla fuchsia that produces large bunches of flowers for an extended period. Makes a lovely weeping half standard. long, tapered, single flowers towards the ends of the stems. Tube: Tube: Long, red with pink bias. Sepals: Short, red with pink bias. Long, thin, salmon orange. Sepals: Salmon orange, short, spiky looking Corolla: Pink with crinkly pleats, orange tint at base. Foliage: Darkish green tinge at tips. Corolla: Again, salmon orange. Foliage: Darkish green. green with lighter undersides.

Sappho Phaoon Thalia Single Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) de Cooker, Mario, (NL) Bonstedt, (DE) 2011 1905 RHS AGM Mario describes this as follows: "The trailing fuchsia triphylla hybrid Stiffly upright growing triphylla fuchsia which benefits from some cultivar 'Sappho Phaoon' has, amongst others, 'Gottingen' and 'Our attention to pinching out in the early stages. 1905 and still winning. Ted' in its parentage. Best colour is obtained if the pink flowers are Tube: Scarlet-orange, slim and tapering. Sepals: Scarlet-orange with protected from direct sunlight. It is best grown from January or February paler tips, held ¾ down. Corolla: Orange-red. Foliage: Bronze fairly cuttings, which should be pinched once or twice. Growing an older plant large glossy leaves with bold impressed veining. is also possible, but will provide far from optimal results" Named after one of the Airedale Terriers of the family. So dappled shade and take Whiteknight's Ruby cuttings each year and you'll see the best of this truly beautiful fuchsia. Tube: Amaranth pink. Sepals: Amaranth pink with rose edges, held Single horizontally. Corolla: Amaranth pink with rose picotee edges, ¼ flared. H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Foliage: Dark green. Wright, (UK) Sparky 1976 Single

H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Whiteknight's Ruby is a triphylla fuchsia with a relaxed attitude, it Webb, (UK) doesn't grow especially fast but is self branching after the first pinch or two so is easy to grow. the flowers are lovely. Tube: Imperial purple, 1994 long. Sepals: Imperial purple, small. Corolla: Imperial purple, short. Foliage: Dark green with red veining. F. triphylla x F. procumbens.

A petite triphylla fuchsia bearing cute single flowers and heart shaped leaves. Tube: Short, deep smoky red. Sepals: Short and spiky, deep smoky red tipped with green. Corolla: Short petals, deep smoky red. Foliage: Darker green.

Strike the Viol Single H1c (Min 5 to 10°C) Cooker, Mario de, (NL) 2012 NKvF R Flowers freely, flamingo pink and claret tubular blooms against dark green leaves. Tube: Flamingo pink with orange overtones. Sepals: Rose pink with claret tips. Corolla: Orange blending to shocking pink at edges. Foliage: Dark green, deep purple veins and stems.

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