Fuchsia Amazing Maisie- Fuchsia of the Week 51/2014

Posted by Siglinde on Jan 11, 2015 in Fuchsia of the week, Fuchsie der Woche | 0 comments

was introduced 2001 at the RHS in Great Britain.

The breeder is Mick Allsop, whom Fuchsia-Enthusiasts have to thank a lot for providing many Hybrids. This lovely Hybrid is a crossbreed from the renown Hybrids “Coachman” and “Marcus Graham”.

 

The color is distinctively related to the mother-hybrid, but the strikingly long tubes and the gracefully curved sepals cannot be tracked back to that lineage. My plant of this hybrid grows upright with a little tethering up, but is as well recommended for hanging baskets. The semi-double blossoms of middle size does shine somehow in half shade with a special “smoky” orange hue.

 

This beautiful Hybrid is easy to overwinter. And, if that may go wrong, it is part of the offering of the Nursery Michiels, where i did obtain my plant.

 

 

Wether this name was chosen with regards to the children´s book of the same name is not known to me.