Fuchsia Perscandens

An interesting one

I really love this one Hywel. The flowers are small, a bit smaller than F.David. It's one of the species fuchsias from New Zealand. There's a bit more info at the link below.

http://nfsnz.orconhosting.net.nz/nzspecies.htm

I love this...quite unsusual colour...

There are a few similar ones that have different growth habits on that link Michealla. This one came from Burncoose nurseries if you are interested.

Its a stunner Meanie I have noted the name and have got to try and get one..........

Ooh Milky, you're getting the unusual bug!!

Great shot: like the toad lily, the dark backgorund really shows up the flower at its best. I shall be getting a couple of these for my garden. I have read that they are frost tender, however, if I can grow Pelargoniums and South African Geraniums outside with no trouble, then I am sure this will grow for me!
Burncoose Nursery, here I come!!

Thanks Geraniumdad!
Hardy down to minus 5 apparently, so it'll go in a coldframe for the winter!

Good drainage, plenty of mulch and planted at the back of the border it will grow just fine! I like to experiment with plants: I had a Bougainvillea growing outside last year until the harsh winter killed it off. £4.00 reduced from £25.00 at Homebase because someone had pruned it badly and it looked tatty! I shall be trying again in the spring, this time putting out the plant with the pelargoniums I have in large clay pots, around March. The potted pelargoniums live in the kiddies playhouse for winter: no windows on it, just fleece on the floor and kept on the dry side.

This is a scrambling plant which could be trained to go up. Around here though we do seem to be in something of a cold "pocket".
Until I got this virus I was in the process of making my coldframe - "double glazed" with horticultural perspex, base double skinned and filled with expanding foam and then the plants will sit on foil backed loft insulation.