It´s origin is in Great-Britain, being crossbred by the british hybridizers Len Bielby and Mike Oxtoby and was introduced respectively registered at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in 1990. Among the lineage is the hybrid “Earl of Beaconsfield”, and the resemblance cannot be denied.
Fuchsia President Norman Hobbs
As an enthusiast of orange-colored Fuchsias there was no way for me to skip that hybrid when i discovered it at the nursery “Fuchsia Paradise Fuhrmann” in Augsburg/ Germany some years ago. It was surely not easy for Angelika Fuhrmann to part with the plant, but she did so giving it with good conscience in my trusted hands.
Within my greenhouse this hybrid is easy to overwinter, but grows sprouts quite late and gives me therefore a hard time to proliferate it. It is finally placed within half-shade or shade, since trials within direct sunlight did not work to well, but were no disaster either.
The growth is more on the slow side, but given time it flourishes abundantly with many lengthy blossoms in a luminescent orange-red, enthralling up to now almost each spectator. The sepals never retract completely.
Only the white fly may pose a problem with this hybrid, beside that it is very resistant!
Fuchsia President Norman Hobbs
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