Our Fuchsias

Oh I feel so much better now, I bought some in the springtme as plug plants and diligently wrote the name on every single pot as I was potting them on, the biddy ink washed off, hubby's useless guaranteed special pen, lol, luckily I kept the packaging with all the names on and as they flower I am checking online to match them up so as I can record them all, yours are lovely, I know that I have a couple the same that I've never known the name of, between us we should get lucky with our more knowledgeable members...

Oh Wow Lincs! I thought it was only me disorganised enough to remove labels or write on them and then have it wash off. As I sit at my computer I have a heap of labels in front of me, some I will obviously match up and others - who knows? Why did I put them there in the first place, who knows that either?

lovely fuchsias . I have 4 different ones and really should get some more but I'm trying to reduce the number of pots I have.

You have some lovey Fuchsias. They are difficult to identify without the labels, because there are so many similar ones.
The second one down reminds me of Micky Goult and the 3rd photo from the bottom looks like Other Fellow. I'm probably wrong though lol

Exactly Hywel, how are we supposed to know the difference, I have a beauty in the front garden, I 've had her for many years, now that one I know for a fact was named Annabel when I bought her, looking in the books and catalogues, also online and she isn't....Same thing with roses, so many look the same, lol....

Honey I have a habit of popping labels in the pocket of my laptop bag, so as I don't lose them, that way I am s'posed to record them on Goy, I just know that isn't going to happen, lol....

I always mean to keep them labelled but it never happens. But we really want them for their beauty not their names so perhaps we shouldn't stress too much. I love that dainty one fourth from the bottom!

All our labels are in the pots but buried deep now. OH named them for me, as I said, and I know they included. Swingtime, Mickey Goult, London 2000, Lustre Improved.
To be honest, I thought Hywel would immediately identify them all for you, and he has with Mickey Goult.

I keep very quiet when OH and a Fuchsia-lover friend get together. The latter lost a greenhouse-full to some disease but he is still very keen. Even e-mailed us from Cornwall to say the Duchy of Cornwall Garden Centre no longer has the wonderful display of Fuchsias they used to have.

I don't really bother with names. I just choose the Fuchsia that appeals to me. Ballet Girl was a favourite but no longer around.

OH uses those metal labels and the ink seems to stay on those. Wonder if colourless nail varnish would help Lincs?

lol :) ... There are a few thousand Fuchsia varieties and nobody can know them all. I may recognise the ones I've got, or had in the past, although I am never sure because there are so many similar ones.

As for their names, I've got over 100, and I like to know which ones I've got so that I don't buy the same one twice. I can take cuttings if I want to duplicate them.
With other plants I don't mind what the name is.

What a lovely variety you have .

You have some really pretty fuchsias. As my hubby has nothing to do with the garden other then cut the grass, I have to do edging, there is no point what so ever I asking him so I think you do far better then him Eirlys. :-).

None of those is Swingtime, if that's any help!

Such beautiful flowers, what a lovely variety of them you have :)

Steragram: Really? I went by the label in the pot! Didn't consult the Oracle, I must admit. :-)

I do like Fuchsias. As a child I remember hanging them from my ears and wearing them as ear-rings. Bet Hywel didn't/doesn't do that!

lol ! :D

Eirlys Swingtime is red and white, a very frilly lady and not hardy if that helps. Usually grown as a basket fuchsia.

Steragram: Thanks for that. #

PamelaAnne and 3d Bit: Glad you share my liking for Fuchsias.