Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Fuchsia Wish List, 1 by hummer_girl

hummer_girl wrote:
Since I don't live in the NW where they have Fuchsia Nurseries, Fuchsia Conventions, probably even Fuchsia Fairs, and I'm rooted in the Midwest with a lack of fuchsia sources, I have to feed my addiction via the internet.

Sometimes with plants I go native, back to the elemental, the parent plant. My new Fuchsia Obsession is Fuchsia Species. So far I have either purchased or found a USA source for the following:

F. boliviana
F. denticulata
F. fulgens
F. glazioviana
F. hatschbachii
F. splendens

My Fuchsia Wish List is:
F. Andrei
F. cinerea
F. dependens
F. gehrigeri
F. hartwegii
F. jimenezii
F. lehmanii
F. petiolaris
F. sanctae-rosae
F. simplicicaulis
F. venusta
F. vulcanica

I've done an internet search for fuchsia species seeds since I can't find the plants, but was unsuccessful. As far as I can determine, these species are available in England, but unless I win the lottery to finance a trip across the pond, and figure out a way to bring plants back into the US without violating customs, I will only be able to feed my addiction with online photos...which isn't the same as owning the plant.

Maybe some of my DG friends can point me in the right direction for fuchsia species on my wish list.

Maybe you have a Fuchsia Wish List you want to share?

(P.S., Since I don't currently have a fuchsia species blooming, the picture is my Fuchsia Gartenmeister Bonstedt who has a species parent: either F. triphylla or F. fulgens. Gartenmeister was released in 1905 for public trade.)