What's this plant?

Its Phygelius, can't remember the variety, might be African Queen, I'll check

Yep, Phygelius rectus African Queen. I've got it in the garden, damned invasive, spreads by root runners, but I love it anyway, semi evergreen, unusual flower spikes, unusual colour, grows more or less anywhere.

i also have something very similar 'winchester fanfare'. it has never run around. i also have it under the canopy of the beech tree.
its common name is cape fuchsia.

Yes, Winchester Fanfare doesn't run around, but the Yellow Trumpets is awful...had to get rid of mine eventually. Why do plants always run the wrong way?

My yellow trumpet vanished after thriving for several years :-( I loved it and wish it was more invasive here!

I've grown nearly all of them in my time, and I found African Queen to be the most vigorous and invasive of any of them. The yellow one in particular hates to dry out and often has brown, dead areas.

ah, now i was told my pinky one was winchester fanfare, so i take it it isnt.
I have quite a few in the candy drops range and so far so good.

Winchester Fanfare has yellow inside the flower's throat and is quite reddish, not really pink..

Thanks for the replies! Due to its similarity with Fuchsias one could be forgiven for thinking it might be a more "primitive" species of Fuchsia. If it is also called "Cape Fuchsia" it would be even more understandable!

If it spreads like you say, Bamboo, it won't be a problem for me as that particular one is growing in a fairly small pot, not more than 6". It does get a lot of water though. There is a bigger plant in an old clothes tub, underplanted with Hyacinths. Just a couple of days ago I "thinned" it out a little as it was getting too big for the allotted space & shading out too much other plants behind it.

I pinched out the growing tips a couple of times to make it bushier so only now are the buds forming.

It likes a lot of water. In a book of perennial plants by Phillips and Rix ( a photographic-type book) it is shown in the wild growing on the side of a waterfall!