Fuchsia Masquerade – Fuchsia of the week 42/2014

Posted by Siglinde on Oct 13, 2014 in Fuchsia of the week, Fuchsie der Woche | 0 comments

– is positively one of my favorite Fuchsias!

To get hold of this hybrid is a bit complicated, since even the renown Fuchsia-Nurserys do not sell them regularly.

 

And this is even though this hybrid is no newcomer, but was introduced in 1961 from the Microbiologist Charles Kennett from the USA, as the Fuchsia of the week 13/2014. Unfortunately he did not register the lineage of this Fuchsia with large and double blossoms. To me this hybrid is very singular, for i do certainly know no other to be compared with this special beauty. But of course there are others i do not know!!

The hybrid is semi-hanging and prefers a sheltered situation within half-shade or shade to grow the blossoms with this fascinating colors. Overwintering is no problem within a greenhouse and it will start to grow sprouts early during January. These are good suited to propagate through cuttings. The first blossoms will start, given this conditions, in April, and up to October there have been almost no breaks.

To my knowledge it is for sale nowadays in the Nursery´s Guttmann (Vienna, Austria) and Himmelreich (Bavaria, Germany).