Bush Fuchsias S-Z. Petite, pleasing & pulchritudinous

Samantha Reynolds

Delightful flowers that face outwards and slightly down, a most attractive fuchsia.Tube: Creamy white, slim and fairly short.Sepals: Creamy white with very pale pink blush on top, fuchsia pink blush underneath, green tips. Held 1/2 up and recurvedCorolla: Violet-blue with purple veining on openin..

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Sanguinea

Not a species, this is instead a very old, free flowering cultivar that obviously got its name from its dark red tinted leaves.Tube: Cerise carmine.Sepals: Cerise carmine.Corolla: Violet purple.Foliage: Dark leaves similar to Corallina, but have a red edge.Parentage: Unknown..

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Shelford

Beautiful and classic exhibition quality fuchsia. Fantastic garden plant too.Tube: Short, baby pink with darker stripes.Sepals: Long and slim. Baby pink shading through white to apple green tips. Held horizontal with full recurve.Corolla: White with partial pink veining at base.Foliage: Mid to dark ..

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Silver Surfer

Fabulous, named to commemorate the 25th year of the Cambourne and Redruth Fuchsia Society. Beautiful classic style fuchsia, and an impeccable pedigree. It is self-branching, and Sid says it is easy to grow and shape.Tube: slender, long for size of flower, deep pink.Sepals: Palest pink, held slightly..

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Sleigh Bells

Still a first class white single, with large, elegant flowers. Has stiff, vigorous, growth so needs careful early pinching if a compact bush form is desired. This same growth habit also makes it eminently suitable for training in a variety of forms.Tube: White, slim, fairly long.Sepals: White w..

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Softpink Jubelteen

Generous in its production of upward facing flowers, excellent container plant. Considerable variation in flower colour depending on whether grown in shade or full sun.Tube: Palest pink with slightly darker stripes.Sepals: Palest pink through white to green tips on top, palest pink with green tip..

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Sophie Louise

Compact slightly lax bush fuchsia with lots of small and very beautiful semi erect flowers. Self branching, short jointed, excellent for mini standards & small pot classes.Tube: Palest pink, short.Sepals: Palest pink, fairly long and slim, held slightly up and recurved.Corolla: Blue violet, 1/4 ..

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Stan

Fairly compact, ideal for smaller containers, very pretty and beautiful colouring.Tube: Pale rose, shortishSepals: Pale rose with green tips, 1/2 up with slight recurve.Corolla: White with purple tinge and purple petal edge, 1/2 ro 3/4flared.Parentage: Jenny Sörensen x Braamt's Glorie.NKvF 4648..

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Stardust

Quite stiff, bushy upright growth, ideal for training into standards and fans etc. Looks good in tall slender containers too, as well as being a superb bedding fuchsia. Delightful.Tube: Salmon pink, slender.Sepals: Salmon pinky-orange, held slightly down and recurved.Corolla: Crimson edges blendi..

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String of Pearls

Exeedingly prolific, smothers itself in medium sized single or semi double flowers. Reliable and easy to grow.Tube: Rose pink, curvy shape with slim waist at sepal end.Sepals: Rose pink, paler towards ends with pale green tinge. Held 1/2 up to fully up with slight reflex at tips.Corolla: Very pale r..

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Sue

Bushy and self branching, graceful, boldly coloured flowers display well against foliage. Easy and reliable, free flowering repeated over a long period. Lovely.Tube: Cerise red, medium length, peg top shape.Sepals: Cerise red, quite long, horizontal, slightly recurved.Corolla: Red and orange, sm..

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Sunbeam Hillary

A vigorous bush fuchsia bearing medium to large flowers very generously. Naturally short-jointed growth.Tube: Short greenish white.Sepals: White fading to pink.Corolla: Palest lavender.Foliage: Mid green...

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Sunray

Flowers somewhat sparsely on a fairly slow-growing bush, but is grown and prized for its superb foliage. A mature plant is a stunning sight, and well worth the wait. Don't over pot, needs good light, and enjoys a sunny position.NB This is the genuine Sunray, which (unusually) arose as a variegated..

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Sunshine

Now here's a fuchsia to make you happy when skies are grey. Gorgeous and abundant bright rose and carmine pink single flowers, truly lovely. Tube: White flushed pink with pink candy stripes. Sepals: White and bright rose pink with apple green tips, held slightly below horizontal and recurved toward..

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Susan

Awaiting description.Tube: .Sepals: , 1/2.Corolla: , 1/2 flared.Foliage: .Parentage: .NKvF 20..

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Susan Green

Susan Green is a naturally bushy grower freely bearing pale pink and rose pink flowers. Happy in sun providing the roots are shaded, and easy to grow. Tube: White with pale pink flush.Sepals: White with pale pink shades, held horizonally, recurved with a slight twist.Corolla: Rose Pink, little o..

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Swanley Beauty

Well named, Swanley Beauty generously bears lovely medium sized, soft pink and white single flowers.Tube: Waxy white with cream blush.Sepals: White with faint pink tinge which is darker towards the slightly reflexed tips.Corolla: Soft pink, between 1/4 and 1/2 flared. Foliage: Medium green with p..

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Swanley Yellow

Swanley Yellow has no trace of yellow whatsoever, but don't be put off, nor do most others. This is a lovely free flowering beauty, bearing medium sized single flowers. Tube: Orangey pink, proportionately longish.Sepals: Orange pink with tiny apple green tips, held horizontally and recurved.Corol..

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Szilvia Ocsai

A strong upright growing, self branching, free flowering fuchsia, this bears many bright, refreshing flowers.Tube: Mainly white, occasional pale purple streaks, fairly short and slender. Sepals: White with purple-pink edges and streaks. Held between horizontal and 1/2 up, recurved with green tips...

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Thamar

Exceedingly free-flowering self branching fuchsia, tolerates full sun. Strong and vigorous, always popular.Tube: White with green flush.Sepals: White with pink flush and apple green tips, held 1/4 downCorolla: Light violet fading to light purple and white at the base with white splashing from the..

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The Doctor

Good bright colours is the first and lasting impression given by The Doctor. Capable of being a fine bush or standard and easy to grow, this old favourite always gives good value. Excellent.Also known as Mrs Roberts.Tube: White with fleshy pink lines, longish and slender.Sepals: White washed with..

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Ting-a-Ling

Enduringly popular white flowered beauty. Flowers mark easily so grow in sheltered situation or protected if growing for exhibition. Best white in shade.Tube: White or pale pink, faint candy stripe, short, slender.Sepals: White, apple green tip, slender, fairly long, fully up, slightly recurved.Coro..

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Tom Knights

A show bench favourite, great for bedding and superb in pots and patio containers.Tube: WhiteSepals: White with very slight pink blush. Held slightly up and recurved.Corolla: Lavender blue, 1/4 flaredParentage: Estelle Marie x Coquet Dale AFS 1732, NKvF 2147..

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Turkish Delight

Compact, bushy growth, covers itself in flowers, self branching. Ideal patio fuchsia, also suitable for smaller standards.Tube: Pale pink, short.Sepals: Cerise, getting paler towards the green tips, held 3/4 up and fully recurved.Corolla: Iris blue shaded with plum, cerise veining. 1/4 flared whe..

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Twinkling Stars

The twinkle in this little star is that the flowers frequently carry five sepals instead of the usual four, giving a lovely true star shape. NiceTube: Pink, short.Sepals: Pale rosy pink on top, slightly deeper shade of rosy pink underneath, green tips. Held horizontal, recurved towards tip.Corolla..

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Ullswater

Upright and bushy with plenty of flowers, a graceful and pretty double.Tube: White, fairly short.Sepals: White with green tips, quite broad, held fully up, slight recurve at tips.Corolla: Orchid-blue maturing pale orchid-purple, 3/4 flared. Quite short petals.AFS 1149, NKvF 3462..

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Venus Victrix

Free flowering, flowers are small, elegant and lovely. This cultivar can claim to have traces of its genes in all white tubed fuchsias. Originally a seedling unintentionally raised by Gulliver of Herstmonceaux in 1840 and introduced at the price of one guinea by Cripps of Tunbridge Wells in 1842. ..

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Vera Garcia

Another superb, short jointed and graceful exhibition cultivar from Sid Garcia, named after his wife. This one is free flowering, and is also showing signs of some hardiness.Sid is a well known exhibitor and judge, who focuses on hybridising cultivars that “work on the bench”, as he puts it. His p..

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Ville de Paris

Makes a nice 1/4 or 1/2 standard fuchsia as well as being superb in a pot or border. Produces so many flowers and is so easy to grow we can heartily recommend this one, may have five or six sepals instead of the normal four, gorgeous.Tube: Pale pink with faint stripes, longishSepals: Pale pink wit..

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Vivien Colville

Elegant with many graceful flowers in overall pinkish orange tones, 'Vivien Colville' has two or more flowers per axil, held on long pedicels.Sadly, in common with other lovely Colville cultivars, we can't find any information about the parentage.Tube: Light red pink 38B, faint stripes, quite long a..

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Waldis Gräfin

Grows stiffly upright and carries numerous strikingly coloured small to medium single flowers, really lovely.Tube: Heliotrope with pink overtone. Sepals: Heliotrope, held horizontal and generously recurved.Corolla: Mauve lavender with small amount of plum veining and streaks, up to 1/4 flared. ..

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WALZ Doedelzak

This fuchsia is just fabulous. Stunningly colourful and unusual medium sized flowers are rapidly and continuously produced until the second or third hard frost.Tube: Pink and red with yellow-green streaks, fairly thick and wide at ovary end and slim at sepal base end. Sepals: Red (52A) and dark r..

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WALZ Jubelteen

Produces masses of medium sized single flowers over a long period. Rarely needs pinching out - if you do this just a few times when it is young. Easy to grow, one of the all-time great cultivars and instantly recognisable for its cheerful upward facing flowers. Wonderful for bedding and garden cont..

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WALZ Toeter

Covers itself in flowers and keeps on doing so. A truly lovely fuchsia. Regarding the capitalisation of the prefix, the breeder, Henk Waldenmaier states:“Until 2001, all my cultivars bore the name prefix WALZ. WALZ is an acronym composed of the first letters of the surnames of the grandparents of m..

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WALZ Trompet

Unusual and easy to grow, always attracts attention and comment. With its numerous large, long, brightly coloured and slightly weird flowers, few walk past it without being enticed by its curious charm.Tube: Claret rose with occasional yellow stripes and yellow waist, proportionately very long and ..

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WALZ Tuba

An easy to grow and unusual fuchsia that needs some early pinching. WALZ Tuba is vigorous and bears many spectacular, brightly coloured flowers.Tube: Crimson, long and slender.Sepals: Crimson 52A, only slightly flared with green reflexed tips.Corolla: Tyrian purple 61C, up to 1/4 flared.Parentage..

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Wassernymph

Strongly upright and early flowering bush cultivar. Very beautiful in a classic fuchsia style, one of Nick's favourites. Often referred to as 'Waternymph'. Exact year of introduction N/K, but believed to be c1985, from Holland.Not the same as 'Water Nymph' (Story, WH, (UK)..

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Waveney Valley

Waveney Valley is a particularly easy low maintenance fuchsia to grow, it is self deadheading, dropping its flowers after maturing, so always looks clean and fresh. Excellent upright bushy habit, makes good half or full standards. Has single and semi double flowers.Tube: Creamy white, short.Sepals:..

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Waveney Waltz

Has been a very popular exhibition fuchsia, still in demand for its free flowering habit and bushy growth. Generously produces medium sized baby pink and white flowers. These may be single or semi double.Tube: Baby pink, very short.Sepals: Baby pink, slightly paler towards the tips, held almost hor..

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Welsh Dragon

A very pleasing, vigorous, bushy cultivar. Large flowers freely produced,reminds reminds me of my first mother-in-law who is Welsh and a lovely lady. I'm not brave enough to say more.Tube: Red, quite long and slender with a waist.Sepals: Crimson raspberry, broad, horizontal, recurved.Corolla: Red-vi..

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White King

Large and substantial flowers are not freely produced, but each bloom has real impact. Lovely old timer, combines impressive size with grace and charm.Tube: White, faint rose stripes, medium size, straight.Sepals: White, pink tinge, broad, concave, mostly horizontal, recurved tip.Corolla: White. Occ..

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White Queen

With its clean white and coral rose flowers and sturdy vigorous (slightly lax) growth, White Queen makes an impressive display. Hardly surprising that despite being introduced in 1899, it is still popular.Tube: Waxy white with very faint lemon blush.Sepals: Clean white with apple green tips, horizo..

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Whoopee

A cracking little compact bush fuchsia from Pete Waving. This small double is short jointed, self branching and easy to grow into a well shaped dense bush for exhibition. Already a BFS show winner. Prefers light shade and fairly cool conditions.Tube: Short, pink with darker candy stripes.Sepals: P..

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Widnes Wonder

A compact and short jointed plant with a neat upright habit, self branching and easy to grow. Bears delightful little pink and dark violet flowers.Tube: White with pink flush, short.Sepals: White with pink flush above, pink below,pale apple green tip, 1/2 up, recurved.Corolla: Dark violet blue, matu..

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Wigan Peer

A cracking smaller double renowned for its quality of bloom and outstanding show bench success. Easy and rewarding. Overall more pink in sun.Compact, bushy growth, and self branching habit. Withstands wet weather well when used in outdoor displays. Named for the Wigan and District Fuchsia Society. ..

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Wilf Langton

Flowers busily, small to medium sized single flowers, another fuchsia cultivar with 'must have' written all over it.Tube: White, faint pink stripe.Sepals: Pale pink, horizontal and well recurved.Corolla: Rich purple, matures pink lavender, 1/4 flared, smooth, overlapping petals...

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Winston Churchill

An enduringly popular cultivar, that's generally easy to grow, but can be tricky to overwinter.Tube: Pink, quite short.Sepals: Pink, quite short and broad, fully up, overall sepal is recurved, but tip reflexes slightly.Corolla: Warm purple, fully flared, with quite short, wavy, petals that often cur..

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Zeta

Imposing, bushy & vigorous, flowers last well.Tube: Scarlet pink blends to orange pink at sepal end, very long, slim.Can anyone tell us anything more about it please?Sepals: Pale orange pink, short, 1/2 down.Corolla: Fuchsia pink, coral base, short, spoon shaped petals, 1/2 flared.Parentage: ?..

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