Fuchsia - 'Flying Cloud'

'Flying Cloud' is a bush fuchsia but with such flexible branches that it can easily be trained as a trailer. The flowers are large, with greenish tips to the sepals. There is a hint of pink on the sepal undersurfaces and also near the base of the petals.

Last year (the first yearI had grown it) I had Flying Cloud side by side with Annabel, and mixed up the labels. For some time I had difficulty deciding which was which. The flower forms are similar but whereas Annabel branches well and is bushy, Flying Cloud tended to grow long branches which toward their ends produced a profusion of beautiful all-white double flowers. Flying Cloud's corolla also tends to be less frilly, and the greenish sepal tips are a further distinguishing mark.

Flying Cloud is only moderately hardy and should be kept under cover in the winter. Based on just one season's experience this has become one of my favourite white fuchsias.

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