Hardy Fuchsias K to Z | Able To Survive Most Winters, A Great Addition To Any Garden

Kath van Hanegem

Neat and floriferous, with 2 to 3 flowers buds per axil. Dark stems perfectly complement the intensely coloured flowers. A little cracker, perfect for rockery, border edge, bonsai or exhibition.Tube: Purple red, between N79C and 71A, short, glossy, peg top.Sepals: Purple red, between N79C and 71A,..

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Lady Bacon

A very elegant fuchsia, Lady Bacon has an airy growth habit, and small leaves.Named after the keen lady gardener who we are told discovered it in Chile. Wonderful display from many single flowers. These are slightly bigger, and have more substance, than those of F. magellanica, of which it is proba..

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Lady Boothby

Great fuchsia, often described as a climber. It is very tall, vigorously upright, and has flexible stems with long internodal gaps so it can be trained up a wall, trellis etc. Interesting and useful growth habit, but doesn't actually climb anything.Free flowering, can look spectacular when wall trai..

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Lady Thumb

Good rockery or border edging fuchsia, a neat and compact grower that flowers well. Makes great mini or quarter standards.Tube: Reddish light carmine, short.Sepals: Reddish light carmine, held half down.Corolla: White with pale carmine veining near the base of the petals. Half flared when mature.Par..

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Lidie Bartelink

Lidie Bartelink has masses of dainty single flowers opening from slender buds on surprisingly long pedicels. Virtually self-deadheading, always looks tidy. A tough, pretty, fuchsia that’s really hardy. Lax, airy growth habit.Tube: Medium sized, dark rose 55A.Sepals: Held horizontally. Dark rose 55A..

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Little Beauty

Well named, compact and neat grower, easy to grow, early and free flowering. Best colours in shade. Tube: Bright red, short.Sepals: Bright red, held horizontally and slightly recurved.Corolla: Strong lavender blue, 1/4 flared when mature.NKvF 1567..

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Lord Roberts

Reputedly one of Lemoine's best purple cultivars, and certainly an excellent hardy. Good, vigorous growth, dark, healthy looking foliage, and large flowers of real quality and substance, that last well. Fairly long pedicels too, so the flowers are nicely displayed away from the foliage.Tube: Rich ..

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Lynne Marshall

Beautiful flowers produced in a long succession on a tidy plant. Strong, bushy, growth. Gorgeous.Tube: Pale pink, darker stripes, slim, peg top.Sepals: Pink, fully up, recurved.Corolla: Lavender blue, pink and pale rose at the base, 1/2 flared, smooth petals...

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Machu Picchu

A prolific and near continuous bearer of brightly coloured flowers, needs frequent deadheading. Though lax the spreading growth is strong, (pinch to shape when young) and can support the huge swathes of flowers this fuchsia can produce. Enjoys sun. Recommended. Hardy to at least -8°C.Tube: Rose pink..

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Major Heaphy

A wonderful old timer that still has real "wow" factor and will stand out from others on display. Poised and elegant, vivid flowers just keep on coming. Naturally bushy and free branching. Will drop buds and flowers if atmosphere too dry, especially if moved there suddenly.Tube: Orange red 39B.Se..

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Margaret

Substantial, easy, and distinctive hardy that's tall enough to make a good fuchsia hedge. Free flowering, best planted outdoors, too vigorous for most long term pot culture.Tube: Carmine scarlet, short, bulbous.Sepals: Carmine scarlet, very broad, fully up, well recurved right back to the ovary.Cor..

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Margaret Brown

Margaret Brown flowers generously on dense, strong growth, with small to medium sized neat and compact single flowers which make a lovely display. Highly recommended reliable hardy fuchsia. Quite light green foliage, green stems and veins.Tube: Rose pink, proportionately long.Sepals: Rose pink, hel..

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Mephisto

Some sources say this is hardy, some say it isn't. Well worth growing either way, and in any case, hardiness is all about whether a fuchsia is hardy where you plant it. It's a delightful, cheery little fuchsia. Small flowers of substance, not in the least flimsy, and freely produced.Tube: A little ..

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Mercurius

A lovely hardy with open growth and plentiful flowers in dark purple red and dark pink violet. These are very nicely displayed on 3.5cm (1½") pedicels, not hidden amongst the glossy, metallic green foliage that inspired its name.Tube: Medium thickness, dark pink red 53C.Sepals: Dark pink red 53C abo..

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Mersty

Pale and lovely sister seedling to 'Cherry Lee', with similar golden foliage (that dislikes full sun) and also shows signs of hardiness. Beautiful colouring of pale lavender, pale pink and white.Best in bright filtered light, colours very pale in shade. Needs and is worth careful deadheading, dead f..

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Mr A Huggett

A bushy, self branching fuchsia bearing beautiful outward facing flowers whose corolla petals have gorgeous picotee edges. Early, profuse and continuous flowering, excellent and very versatile. Recommended.Tube: Scarlet, shortSepals: Scarlet-cerise. Held horizontally and slightly recurvedCorolla: P..

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Mr W Rundle

Vigorous and easy to grow, produces lovely long slender flowers with bright attractive colours. Hardy enough to be on the BFS Showbench Hardy list, new RHS H3 rating (Minimum 1°C to -5°C) is a cautious estimate. It may be tougher than this.Tube: Proportionately long, rose red with faint orange red..

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Mrs Lovell Swisher

Huge quantities of flowers produced by this lovely fuchsia and though of smallish size the result is clouds of colour. Needs frequent careful pinching when training, will make structures or shapes.Tube: White tinged with salmon pink.Sepals: White with green tips, held horizontally with slight reflex..

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Mrs Marshall

Mrs Marshall is very versatile and can be trained into all shapes including standard, and considering she's been with us so long, she's still very popular. Was known as Grand Duchess Marie in her early days, and won an Award of Merit from the RHS in 1929. Generously produces medium sized flowers, ea..

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Mrs Popple

A classic. Very free flowering, upright and bushy, reliably giving a wonderful display all season. Recommended.Tube: Scarlet, glossy, slender and short.Sepals: Scarlet, glossy on top, short and broad, held 1/2 down with slight recurve.Corolla: Violet-purple fading to rose-red at base, 1/4 flared.Fol..

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Mrs W P Wood

Long buds and prolific flowering. Charming hardy fuchsia, distinctive pink and white blooms.Tube: Pale pink blush, fairly short, peg top.Sepals: Pale pink with tiny green tips. Distinctively long, fairly narrow. Held horizontally and recurved.Corolla: White, 1/4 flared, petal edges make a bell shape..

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Mrs W Rundle

Makes a lovely weeping standard. Old but very respected and capable fuchsia cultivar.Tube: White with pink blush, proportionately long.Sepals: Pale pink with faint palest green tips, held ¼ down.Corolla: Raspberry orange, up to ¼ flared.Foliage: Light green.NKvF 1657..

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Old Somerset

Highly desirable for its superb foliage. Absolutely will not tolerate overwatering. or having water sitting in its crown. Rooted cuttings and young plants susceptible to botrytis if watered from above, overwatered, or overpotted. Prefers especially free draining compost, easily achieved by adding..

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Other Fellow

Nick's first fuchsia; this has a lot to answer for! Tasteful and elegant, a show bench classic, that's also suitable for training as a 1/4 or 1/2 standard. A great pleasure to grow and its largely self deadheading habit, means it is also particularly suited to use in borders or containers. Water c..

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Pabbe's Kirrevaalk

Flowers bountifully with saucer shaped flowers in clusters of three, giving an eye-catching show. Now proven to be surprisingly hardy. We know of one that has survived outside for over five years now.Tube: Dark red purple 60A, short and thick.Sepals: Dark red purple 60A, held slightly above horiz..

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Pam Plack

Flowers very profusely, a fairly hardy fuchsia in most of UK, vigorous and easy to grow.Tube: White, peg top.Sepals: White, tiny ggreen reflexed tip, horizontal or slightly down.Corolla: Light lilac pink maturing darker, 1/4 flared when matureParentage: Sport of Margaret Brown.AFS 3998..

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Pee Wee Rose

Small single or semi double flowers, but plenty of them, carried on quite low and graceful, slender growth suitable for espalier training.Tube: Rosy red, slim.Sepals: Rosy red, pale green tip, 1/2 down, recurved.Corolla: Rich rosy pink, 1/4 flared, petals slightly ridged.Parentage: F. magellanica x ..

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Peggy King

Strongly upright and vigorous grower. Dark stems, flowers held well away from leaves, very handsome.Tube: Dark pink red 52A, grooved, not striped, barrel shaped.Sepals: 52A, slightly darker above, horizontal to 1/2 up, recurved.Corolla: Pink purple N74A, base purple red 58B, smooth, overlapping pe..

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Phyllis

A delightfully cheery and solid little flower. Each can have up to seven sepals, and there are lots of them, freely carried from early in the season. Vigorous, easy, and stiffly upright growth.Tube: Strongly flushed dark pink red 53C, peg top, chunky appearance.Sepals: Dark pink red 52A below, flush..

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Phyrne

This upright and sturdy fuchsia has (for a hardy) unusually large frilly double flowers, in shades of pink and white.Tube: Rich cerise pink, medium length.Sepals: Rich cerise pink, fairly broad, short and concave, held 1/2 up, tips recurved.Corolla: White or pale pink, veined and splashed with rich ..

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President George Bartlett

Deep vibrant colours, self branching. Smaller, slightly lax bush that reliably gives a fine display for exhibition, bedding, garden or trained, very popular.Tube: Rich red violet, medium length and thickness.Sepals: Rich red violet, slightly paler towards tips, held 3/4 up and straight with tiny t..

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President Leo Boullemier

A most attractive hardy, the beautifully shaped and coloured flowers open a lovely shade of lavender blue, maturing to soft magenta. Bushy growth, short jointed.Tube: Pink white, fairly short.Sepals: Pink white above, slightly darker below, 1/2 up, tips recurved. Corolla: Soft lavender blue, matures..

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President Moir

Exhibits its medium sized abundant flowers against lush foliage. This is a beautiful bronze when young, although it does eventually age to dark green. Far less susceptible to fuchsia rust than most. Vigorous, bushy growth.Tube: Bold red.Sepals: Bold red, held horizontally with slight reflex.Coroll..

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President Norman Hobbs

Large but slender blooms, 6cm long. As they mature, each petal develops a streak of lighter colour, and becomes pleated. Vibrant, profuse and graceful. Hardy to 0°C.Tube: Light orange 40D, 2.5cm (1") long.Sepals: Light orange 40D, up to about 4.5cm (1¾”) long x 6mm (¼") wide.Corolla: Red 45C with a..

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Preston Guild

Abundant small to medium sized flowers provide a truly eye-catching display, in gorgeous colours. Named for the famous and historic Preston Guild, held only once every 20 years. As far as we're concerned any year is a good one to grow this graceful beauty.Avoid full sun, which bleaches the blue, and..

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Prince of Orange

Abundant flowers, enduring appeal as one of few orange hardies. Beautiful salmon orange flowers and softly pale green leaves.Tube: Medium length, soft salmon pink.Sepals: Medium length, soft salmon pink, horizontal, tips slightly recurved.Corolla: A more orange shade, smooth eye tooth shaped peta..

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Prosperity

An exceptional hardy fuchsia bearing many very beautiful, intensely coloured flowers of substance on a vigorous plant.Tube: Crimson, fairly short, rounded.Sepals: Crimson, broad, concave, 3/2 up or more.Corolla: Flushed pink and veined rosy red, 3/4 flared.Parentage: Bishop's Bells x Strawberry Deli..

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Query

Beautiful pink and purple flowers are very similar to 'Chillerton Beauty', but the plant isn't as big. Self branching and upright growth.Tube: Pale pink, medium thickness, slightly bulbous.Sepals: Pale pink, darker underneath, horizontal.Corolla: Purple, matures magenta, with dark pink veins...

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Red Ace

Strong growing and free flowering bush with massed medium sized blooms. Self branching, the substantial flowers tolerate full sun. Suitable for training as a standard. Highly recommended.Tube: Rich red, short, glossy, ribbed.Sepals: Rich red, glossy. Horizontal, slightly reflexed tip.Corolla: Pu..

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Remember Carole Anne

Flowers bountifully, a really beautiful exhibition quality small to medium sized double from two superb parents. Lax growth makes a good basket. Hardy to 0°C. Gorgeous.Tube: Pale pink 56D, medium length and thickness.Sepals: White N155B above, rose 55B below, 1/2 up, reflexed, with pale green, sl..

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Remember Eric

Truly lovely smaller hardy that produces medium sized, simple and very pretty flowers which look splendid against the dark green foliage.Tube: White.Sepals: White with pink blush, tipped pale green, held horizontally with slight recurve towards tip.Can anyone tell us its parentage?Corolla: Petals..

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Reverend Frank Pagden

Attractive, eye catching and beautiful, small flowers, but in quantity. Another of Alan Swaby's quality fuchsias suitable for exhibition and smaller standards.Tube: Rosy red 52A, short.Sepals: Rose 55A, green reflexed tip, held 1/2 up, concave.Corolla: Opens violet blue 91A with red veining, mat..

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Riccartonii

Cute little flowers, shorter, but more substance than typical very slim F. magellanica type. Very vigorous, and useful garden plant. Probably the hardiest fuchsia available, and a real whopper in the right place.Tube: Bright red, fairly short, peg top.Sepals: Bright red, horizontal to 1/2 up, sligh..

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Rolt's Bride

Big, fully double blooms of white and palest pink, but not heavy or coarse. A lovely and surprisingly tough cultivar that deserves to be more widely grown.Gwen has grown this permanently outside in her garden for many years, although she originally bred it as a basket type.Tube: Greenish white, ros..

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Rose of Castile Improved

Free flowering and strong growing, with flowers capable of a dramatic, colourful display.Tube: White with a touch of green.Sepals: White with pink tinge above and greenish recurved tips, broad, held horizontal to 1/4 down.Corolla: Violet with red bias and pink veins at petal base. Smooth, overlappin..

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Rosecroft Beauty

This is a variegated sport of the well known semi double 'Snowcap', the flowers are identical. Even more compact in growth, and, as is common with many variegated plants, noticeably slower growing.Tube: Fairly short, red.Sepals: Red, fairly broad, held 1/2 up.Corolla: White, with traces of dark ..

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Royal Purple

A superb red and purple hardy from a great hybridizer, sourced in response to customer demand. Self branching, vigorous and easy to grow. Inexplicably hard to find in the UK.Tube: Deep cerise, fairly short, rounded.Sepals: Deep cerise, 1/2 up, broad, thick and glossy.Corolla: Rich purple, paler base..

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Ruth

Generous production of medium sized and beautifully coloured blooms. An upright bushy fuchsia of great character.Tube: Rose red, short.Sepals: Rose red, held slightly down and slightly reflexed.Corolla: Purple red blending to rose pink at petal base...

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Santa Cruz

Beautifully bold coloured semi double to double flowers that hold their colour well. If you could bear to, it makes a good cut flower. Easy to grow, an old favourite.Tube: Rose red.Sepals: Rose red, darker tip, held horizontal with strong recurve.Corolla: Opens and matures rose red at base then vi..

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Scarcity

It may not have a white tube, but Scarcity has other hallmark James Lye features - quality and robustness. A classic, one of his best cultivars, especially recommended for a 1/2 standard.Free branching, vigorous, ample flowers of excellent form and colour, responds well to training, what's not to li..

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Scarlet Jester

A terrific combination from Mario de Cooker, a genuine triphylla hybrid, with clusters of typical dark tubular flowers, but hardy to -15°C! Needs and prefers a sunny position. (If in a pot, roots must be shaded.)Tube: Dark red 53A, long, slender.Sepals: Dark red above, red 53B below, 1/2 down, refle..

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Sealand Prince

A reliable, upright, vigorous and free flowering hardy with very distinctive blooms beautiful at every stage.(The photo of Sealand Prince flowers at different stages of maturity shows how difficult it can be to choose, photograph, and describe a “typical” flower of just about any cultivar.)Tube: Med..

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Sharpitor

Delightful, similar size and habit to its parent, but not quite as hardy, particularly when young. Young plants with their very thin stems will appreciate a little extra protection to get them through their first winter or two. Needs a rather more clement spot than most. Fabulous foliage plant that ..

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Silver Anniversary

Great combination of flower shape and soft colouring. Free flowering for a double, a superb basket cultivar that's also hardy. (Can be grown as a bush with early pinching, but may then need support.)Tube: White.Sepals: White, pink flushed and recurved tips, fully up, hiding tube.Corolla: Silver blu..

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Son of Thumb

A charming colour sport of Tom Thumb, and otherwise identical to that dwarf cultivar. Masses of beautifully coloured little flowers, with up to three per axil.Tube: Purple red 58B, short, peg top.Sepals: Purple red 58B, 1/2 down, reflexed.Corolla: Purple pink N74C, paler base, darker veins, 1/4 fla..

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Sophie Grace

Generously produces small, outward facing, asymmetric flowers on a short jointed plant suitable for exhibition and smaller standards. A pretty and rewarding fuchsia, hardy to 0°C.Tube: Rose 52B, short.Sepals: Rose 52B blending through white above, rose below, green tips, fully up and recurved.Cor..

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