Unknown Fuchsia over 6 feet tall on a trellis !
By Hywel
- 11 Sep, 2017
- 11 likes
It is hardy ... been there for many years.
Don't know its name. It isn't Lady Boothby.
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Thanks. It's more of a double flower than Lady Boothby. The leaves are different too.
They look nice climbing through other plants don't they. There are two Clematises mingling with this one :)
11 Sep, 2017
Who cares about its name, it's fabulous.
13 Sep, 2017
Stunning display.
13 Sep, 2017
Than you both.
I like to know the names because I don't want to buy duplicates. If I know what I've already got, I can decide which other ones to buy :)
13 Sep, 2017
I understand what you mean if I come across it I ll pm you.
13 Sep, 2017
Thank you :)
13 Sep, 2017
Your welcome Hywel ☺x
13 Sep, 2017
:) x
13 Sep, 2017
'Lady Boothby' is certainly is not! Looks more like one I used to grow as standards, 'Beacon' but I've no idea if it can get as big as yours, Hywel.
It looks very much the one that has been growing in the strawberry planter for the last 3 or 4 years which is 'Beacon'.
14 Sep, 2017
No it isn't beacon.
14 Sep, 2017
Not surprised as I didn't really think it was only that it looks like 'Beacon'. Hope you manage to identify it soon as that would be interesting.
14 Sep, 2017
Thanks ... I don't think I'll ever identify it. I bought it many years ago in a nursery that got it's stock from the Netherlands, but it doesn't sell Fuchsias now. I've never seen it anywhere else.
14 Sep, 2017
May be Lady in black?
15 Sep, 2017
Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think it is. This one is quite blue and Lady in Black is very dark, like Blackie.
16 Sep, 2017
Yes your right looking at them together now on the computer. How about this one which is hardy.
https://farmyardnurseries.co.uk/shop/shrub/fuchsia-dollar-princess/
16 Sep, 2017
Ah sorry it isn't Dollar Princess. I've got that one. It's a much fuller flower and has very bushy growth. This one is tall and spindly.
Thanks for trying to help :) x
16 Sep, 2017
Your very welcome Hywel sounds as though you have a one off rare one ☺ if its spindly sounds like a climbing one.
17 Sep, 2017
What a beaut!
17 Sep, 2017
Thank you all :)
Thruppenybit it was bought from a nursery that got its stock from the Netherlands. It doesn't sell Fuchsias now so I don't think I'll find it again in a British place.
17 Sep, 2017
Perhaps you could search on a Netherlands site Hywel for it then.
19 Sep, 2017
If I get some time one day lol
20 Sep, 2017
lol yes there is nt enough hours in a day is there and you have got your garden jobs to fit in with the weather.
20 Sep, 2017
Beryl is so disabled now that it's a full time job caring for her. I can't leave her on her own. When I go down the garden we have a buzzer and if she needs me she presses the button and the buzzer makes a sound, so I go back in the house to see what help she needs. So whatever I am doing I get interrupted and things often have to be left or put on hold until another time.
Sorry that sounds very moany lol :D
21 Sep, 2017
Its not moany at all Hywel a lot of stress is put on careers I know I looked after my mum for nearly 30 years its a shame you cant get a rest bite in for Beryl even if its just for one day so you can have a day to your self sorry Beryl is now got worse its a lot of hard work for you then tending your beautiful garden as well.
22 Sep, 2017
Thank you :) x
22 Sep, 2017
Your very welcome Hywel ☺ x
22 Sep, 2017
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Very nice and similar colour flower as 'Lady Boothby' but looks much frillier in centre. My Magellanica aurovariegata is up to about seven feet at the moment too Hywel. It seems to climb up with the Clematis and Jasmine planted near it and you only notice it when a few flowers open up in the heights.
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