On 2009-10-28 12:11:04 +0000, said:

Sacha wrote:
that I like - I believe the flouncier the flower the less hardy it is,
in general, and I hate the tiny plain little flowers, so it's non-hardy
only for me, I'm afraid.
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So you won't like the lovely, white, simple, elegant, still absolutely
dripping with flowers Hawkshead, then? Shame. ;-)

I think it depends on the conext. The colours (although google has a
few oddities showing!
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=hawkshead%20fuchsia ) are actually
the kind I like. But my mum has one with that shaped flower which is
pale pink, and the plant is big and leafy and the flowers are small and
kind of insignificant, and it just doesn't work for me.

For years I claimed I didn't like fuschias, because they always made me
think of overgrown and run down gardens, with those huge hardy fuschia
bushes that were dark pink and purple, with huge black seed pods. When
I discovered the huge range of flouncy flowers, I changed my mind, but I
still don't like the huge bushy things with more leaf than flower.

If that makes sense.

This is ours doing its end of season thing:
http://i34.tinypic.com/adn2ib.jpg
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Sacha
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