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"Mrs Popple and Tom Thumb are hardy ones and will both grow to 4 or 5
ft."

Tom Thumb is usually described as a dwarf fuchsia, growing to no more
than 2 feet tall.

Maybe in a pot, or a cold area.

Its roots are hardy in open ground, but in colder areas the top growth
is not, and will be killed back to ground level every year by hard
frosts. Maybe that holds it in check. However, in mild-winter areas such
as London, where the OP is, or the western seaboard, the few deg frost
in winter are not enough to kill any of the top growth. It just carries
on growing the next year.

I've just measured a Tom Thumb which in summer 03, was a 1ft
broken-off stick poked into the soil and not pruned or fed since. It's
1.5 metres tall and the same across, and covered in flowers.

Janet (Isle of Arran).