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Hello.
I bought a fuschia this morning, a single white one, named "Hawkshead". Just planted it in a pot. It says it's an upright and can have a pale green tinge to the white. Do you grow it, Kath?
Penny 
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| Hi Penny, Hawkshead is a good old hardy, one of the Magellanica family, and produces masses of small, singular pendular shaped flowers, yes it does have a hint of green on the tips of the sepals (petals). Becomes a large spreading bush after a couple of years. 
Close-up of flower 
Kath
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Thanks very much, Kath. Nice to see "Hawkshead" in flower. I wonder where it got its name, after a garden or gardener, perhaps. It's not the colour of any hawk's head that I know of.
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| I don't know where the actual name came from Penny. I can tell you it is a sister of another fuchsia called Silverdale, but Silverdale does have flushed pink sepals and a pale lavender corolla. Hawkshead was the first white cultivar raised by a British hybridist, J. Travis in 1962. The parents are F. magellanica var. molinae x Venus Victrix. It is very hardy and can grow up to 4ft. in one season.
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| 'Morning Penny, That's a great specimen of Hawkshead. Yes they do grow very fast, even more so if grown in the garden. You can do this if you wish as it is very hardy, have a good day
Kath
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How is the greenhouse functioning Penny. You haven't mentioned it lately. Mine is full of tomatoes and cacti. 
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Hello Kath and Don.
I've put "Hawkshead" outside with the other fuschia I have in a pot. So the gentle rain from heaven can nourish it. The other one has much bigger creamy-white flowers with pale pink edging to the petals - can't remember what its name is. It's take a long time to get going and has only just started to flower.
The greenhouse is very useful - I've a cherry tomato, a courgette, a pumpkin and a pepper plant, along with some sedum. The pumpkin and tomato are in a grow bag, the others in pots. I've just thought that the neglected palm-type plant in the bathroom might like to be in the greenhouse. I'll put it in and see how it goes.
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| Would love to see the one with bigger creamy flowers and pink edging Penny, maybe I can help you with the name. No hurry, anytime will do. Really heavy thunderstorms during the past night, lots of lightning too , hopefully it has thrown a bit of nitrogen back into the poor old grass of the lawns
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