The best new fuchsias for 2020

These new varieties will enhance your summer displays

There are some lovely new fuchsias being introduced next year, some of which I've already seen on the show benches this year. There are some real beauties which also make great plants for the garden.

'Chris & Kath'

A lax fuchsia introduction from Ray Birt, this fuchsia has double flowers with a rose tube and sepals and a flared and frilly white corolla with red veining. The lax growth should make it suitable for a hanging pot or basket. Parentage: ‘Wendy Bendy’ x ‘Syreme’.

'Ginny B'

This is a first release from the Midland grower Malcolm Beerman. It's an upright and has single flowers with a light pink tube, darker pink sepals held just above the horizontal and recurved and a flared white corolla. Has been shown successfully in the last few years. Parentage: ‘Katy James’ x ‘Nelli’.

'Posset Sparkler'

This is my first release and is a bright, sparkling single flower of a classic shape. It has a pale cerise tube and sepals, half up and recurved. The corolla petals are pale lavender with cerise veins. Free flowering with upright growth and mid green leaves but not especially self-branching, so needs early pinching. The Posset part of the name is from the town where I live and is an old name for Portishead. Parentage: ‘Pabbe's Kirrevaalk’ x unknown.

'P&C'

A small and compact introduction from Ray Birt, named after Carol Gubler and her late mother Pam. It has dense, self-branching growth and prolific small, single flowers with a short tube and narrow sepals coloured deep rose with aubergine tones. The corolla is quite tight and a deep magenta in colour. This variety looks as if it will be very good for the small pot classes or a miniature standard. Parentage: ‘Ann Reid’ x ‘Toby S’.

'Peppermint Chip'

A new fuchsia from Peter Waving, this was one he didn’t especially like, but I loved it, so he allowed me to try it, release and name it. It is a smallish, double flower with a very flared corolla. The tube is cerise, the cerise sepals slightly up and recurving. The corolla petals are violet with pink splashes, especially the outer petals. Upright and free/early flowering, with dark green foliage needing early pinching, it will make a very good quarter standard. The name arose because it reminded me of an old large double fuchsia called ‘Peppermint Stick’ in its colours. Parentage: ‘Orla’ (unreleased seeding) x ‘Boogie Woogie’.

'President Derek Luther'

A new fuchsia from Sid Garcia named in honour of the current British Fuchsia Society President. It has upright growth and a classical shaped, medium-size single flower with a short china rose tube, china rose sepals which become lighter with age and a tight phlox purple corolla which lightens with age. Bred from parents which are both hardy fuchsias so may potentially be hardy itself. Parentage: ‘Jenny Sorensen’ x ‘Mr A. Huggett’.

'Windsor Castle'

A new, very floriferous and selfbranching fuchsia from Ray Birt, who was granted special permission to name it 'Windsor Castle'. The flower is a small to medium single with a rose tube, rose sepals, which are held horizontally, and a lavender-blue quarter-flared corolla. Parentage: ’Angela King’ x ’Syreme’.

'Sue Kylymnik'

This is a lax and trailing fuchsia from Gordon Reynolds suitable for baskets and hanging pots. It has a single, white flower with a white tube, white sepals with green reflexing tips and a cerise corolla. This has already won a Best in Show at a BFS National Show.