FUCHSIAS

The New Cultivars

George Bartlett

• Publisher: Crowood
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781861269089
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847973689
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Horticulture
• Index: Biological Sciences

Fuchsias - The New Cultivars follows George Bartlett's first volume, Fuchsias - A Colour Guide, profiling another 1500 newly created cultivars with over 500 colour photographs. Starting with practical advice from an expert on how to care for this beautiful plant, it then updates the fuchsia enthusiast and specialist with entries on the very latest cultivars. This popular format describes each flower, colour, foliage and habit, giving: notes on hardiness, height and spread suggestions on cultivation and display the name of the raiser and the parent plants the date of introduction and the country of registration

A-Z of Species and Cultivars

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Aalt Groothuis

Single H2 Bush

Tubes and flyaway sepals white.

Corollas violet and saucer-shaped.

Growth is upright and strong.

Early nipping helps branching.

Showy in any situation.

Foliage medium green.

(Beitje, Holland, 1997)

(MO)(PER)(GOU)(HYDE)

AALT GROOTHUIS

Abbey Hill

Single H2 Bush

Tubes cream blushed with pink.

Sepals cream blushed with crêpe pink and tipped with green.

Corolla petals dark violet maturing to violet. The mediumsized flowers are freely produced.

Foliage medium green.

(Foster, UK, 1999) (WAR)

Abigal

Single H2 Bush

Tube dull red with a darker stripe.

Sepals, held horizontally, a darker dull red with light green reflexed tips. Corolla fully flared bright purple with white at the base of the petals. Foliage medium green.

The medium-sized blooms are held in a semi-erect position.

(’Bon Accord’ × ‘Whiteknights Amethyst’) × ‘Ting a Ling’ (Springer, Germany, 1989)

(WV)(ROO)(GLE)

Abigayle Reine

Single H2 Bush

A variegated ‘sport’ of ‘Rose

Fantasia’ with a beautiful golden edge to every leaf. Tube and sepals deep pink. Corolla petals pink with a hint of mauve. This beautiful new variety has retained its vigour and free flowering style.

(Eric Hunton, UK, 1998)

(ARC)(PER)

Abundance

Single H3 Bush

Tube and sepals of the medium-sized flowers rich cerise. Corolla petals purple with small cerise petaloids. The flowers are freely produced in self-branching bushy plants.

(Todd, UK, 1870) (BRI)

Achilles

Semi-Double H2 Bush

Tube short, greenish and white.

Sepals pale pink and fully recurving. Corolla petals dark rose. The flowers are large, bell-shaped, and freely produced.

Foliage mid-green. Strong upright and vigorous-growing plant that has the advantage of being self-branching.

(Goulding, UK, 1989)

(CLI)(RIV)

Adagio

Double H2 Trailing

Tube and sepals rosy red. Corolla petals claret red. The flowers are of medium size and are produced freely on trailing or semi-trailing branches. Foliage mid-green.

(Tiret, USA, 1961)

(WV)(LOK)

Ada Perry

Double H2 Trailer

Tube fairly short and scarlet.

Sepals scarlet on top with an even deeper scarlet underneath. Corolla petals blue-purple streaked with cardinal red and maturing to rose.

Foliage dark green with serrated edges. The large flowers are freely produced. Growth is rather stiff for a trailer but will make a good basket and also a bush if given the necessary supports.

(’Seventh Heaven’ × ‘Hula Girl’)

(Stubbs, USA, 1983)

(CLI)(FEN)(SMI)

ADA PERRY

Ada’s Love

Single H2 Bush

Tube pink. Sepals white tipped with green. Corolla petals rose pink. Foliage medium to light green. An excellent medium-sized single with slightly upward-looking flowers. Very floriferous.

(’Shelford’ × ‘Cambridge Louie’)

(Delaney, UK, 1992)

(ALD)(BLA)(KM)

ADA’S LOVE

Adelaide Hoodless

Single H2 Bush

Tube and sepals of these medium-sized flowers white flushed with pink and tipped with green.

Corolla petals lilac pink flushed with white at the base. Upright self-branching habit.

(ROU)

ADELAIDE HOODLESS

Adinda

Single H1 Bush

Terminal-flowering triphylla-type fuchsia. Large clusters of salmon-coloured slender tubed blooms, carried on the many branch ends. Sepals and corolla petals also salmon-coloured.

Foliage sage green. Medium upright and self-branching growth. Show type.

(Dijkstra, Holland, 1995) (LB)

(FOX)(MO)(CHA)(PER)(GOU)

(ROO)(HYDE)(lSL)

ADINDA

Admiration

Single H3 Bush

Tube and sepals bright red tipped with yellowish green.

Corolla petals Indian Lake. The medium-sized flowers are fairly long. Foliage mid- to light green.

Growth is as a rather lax but self-branching bush. H: 15–18in (37–45cm); S: 30in (75cm).

(Wood, UK, 1940)

(SIL)(FEN)(RKY)(RIV)(BRY)

ADMIRATION

Adrien Berger

Single H2 Bush

Tube fairly long and light pink.

Sepals salmon. Corolla petals carmine. The flowers are held in a semi-erect position. Foliage is mid-green. Growth is naturally strong and upright with a good self-branching habit. A vigorous grower.

(Lemoine, France, 1901) (RIV)

Agnese Schwab

Single H2 Trailer

Tubes and sepals of these medium-sized flowers red. Corolla petals robin re...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• A-Z of Species and Cultivars
• Nursery Addresses – 2000
• Glossary