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Fuchsia - 'Preston Guild'This is an upright bush fuchsia which can be treated as hardy other than in areas with extremely cold winters. It is self-branching, has smallish finely serrated leaves with red veins and carries a profusion of relatively small single flowers. The fuchsia cultivar 'Preston Guild' dates back to 1971, but the Guild itself much longer. The flower is named after the historic festival of the city of Preston in Lancashire (England), which for centuries has taken place every twentyone years. In that area of England something which takes place only rarely is often referred to as happening only "once every Preston Guild". Fortunately, this bush fuchsia does not wait so long between its flowering seasons, and reliably provides plentiful gently-coloured fuchsia flowers with some unusual features. The tube and sepals of Preston Guild are white, sometimes tinged with pink especially when grown outdoors. The sepals curl sharply upwards so that the contrasting corolla colour is fully dispalyed. The petals are a bluish violet shading to white at the base, but as the flower ages these gradually change to become more red. This can often lead to having a mixture of markedly different flower colours on a single fuchsia bush (see also Carmel Blue for this effect). I've only grown this cultivar myself in very recent years. A single bush planted next to 'Margaret' close the front wall of the house grew to around two feet in its first season and as I write is budding well along the full length of all its branches ready for a second year, so I expect some extra height this time around. For fuchsia plants by post in the United Kingdom
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