A single flower from a Hardy Fuchsia bush.
Fuchsias are popular plants in British gardens. The first species of fuchsia to be identified was discovered on the island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean, by a French monk, Charles Plumier, who named it after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.
Over 100 species of fuchsia have since been discovered, mostly in South America, but also in the Caribbean area, with others from New Zealand to Tierra del Fuego.
This species of Hardy Fuchsia, from my garden, is almost certainly Fuchsia magellanica, which originates in the south of Argentina and Chile. By tradition, this species arrived in England in the late 18th century, and was quickly disseminated by cuttings. It is one of the few Fuchsias which is reliably winter-hardy in the UK.
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