Fuchsia - 'Carmel Blue'

True blue fuchsias are a rarety, and Carmel Blue is one of the best. It grows as a free-flowering bush with pale green, fairly small serrated leaves and to a height of around eighteen inches or two feet in a medium- sized pot.

The flowers are single with white tube and white recursive sepals while the corolla is a clear blue which develops a more purple hue as the individual flower ages so that the two colours can be together on the same plant. Growing in a cool spot out of the glare of strong sun helps to maintain the blue colour for longer.

Carmel Blue is not one of the hardiest of fuchsias. I have, however found it to survive well in an insulated cold frame over the winter. Except in the mildest of climates it is best not planted out permanently in the ground.

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