Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Name That Fuchsia! For that mystery fuchsia in your garden., 1 by PedricksCorner
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PedricksCorner wrote: One of the reasons I have been SO looking forward to a fuchsia forum where we could all help each other with our discussions and photos, is that I go in search of old-fashioned upright hardy fuchsias in the older gardens I pass in my travels. If I am allowed to take a cutting or two, and if that cutting grows, then occasionally I wind up with a beautiful bush with no identity. Larry was one of those, but now I know his real name is Cardinal. Abby Rose is another. She though, was a generic purchased at a hardware store with the simple label of, "Hardy Fuchsia." For now, she is named after my niece. And sometimes customers in retail nurseries pull the tag out of plants and then put them back in the wrong pot.... I think we have all experienced the surprise of discovering that what we are growing bears no resemblance to what the tag says! So I will start this thread with a mystery upright fuchsia which has a hand-written tag naming it 'Burgandy Beauty' There is no recognized variety of fuchsia with this name that I have been able to find. And my favorite source for fuchsia variety information is FindThatFuchsia which has a list of over 10,000 recognized varieties. Here is the link, I hope we all help Rick out in his efforts there. http://www.findthatfuchsia.info/ If anyone can help me confirm the identity of this fuchsia, please do! And please post your mystery fuchsias here also ;-) |


