Fuchsia regia

Fuchsia regia Grey Leaf
 

Grown from AGS exchange seed as regia - the overall effect (semi-climbing) and the elegant flowers are typical regia, but the leaves are narrower and often somewhat grey-tinted. 

Hardy and easy - ideal for adorning early-flowering shrubs that have finished for the summer.
£10

Fuchsia regia Cherry

A bit of an enigma, this one. A wild-collected form with distinctive large red-veined glaucous leaves, slender, dusky pink flowers and a broad trailing habit. 

Given to me by Miriam Jacobs. She told me "Many of us received one like mine at a SIG meeting but don’t have the name. Mine came with the number 41-42". She's calling it Cherry until we know more about it.
£14

Fuchsia magellanica Arauco

An absolutely exquisite, possibly naturally occurring, form of this popular shrub - always attracts attention with it's finely crafted purple white and pink flowers and neat dark green foliage. It can make a large shrub in time but, like most Fuchsias, responds well to pruning.

This is less drought tolerant than other Fuchsia - not good in small containers and definitely most at home in cool moist conditions.

nb. the variety Lady Bacon (left) is very similar and they can be hard to tell apart, but seen together, Arauco is definitely the more refined plant with better colours, and smaller leaves and flowers. I grow both but I would always recommend Arauco. It just has that certain something that even people who don't generally go for Fuchsias can appreciate.
£10

Californian Ribes

Ribes cereum

An attractive Californian species with profuse palest rosy white flowers in spring among small shiny leaves on a compact gnarly shrub.

An ideal species for Mediterranean style gardens growing among other sun-loving drought-tolerant species.
5L pots ~ £20

Ribes aureum gracillimum

Related to but not the same as the more familiar eastern buffalo berry - R.odoratum. This has similar tubular yellow flowers, but tinted red at the tips, and it is a much more compact plant.

The flowers appear early among the new leaves rather than on bare branches. There might even be some orange berries if you're lucky.
£12

Fuchsia hatschbachii

Closely related to F.magellanica but, to my mind at least, a much nicer plant with good quality narrow foliage, a graceful willowy habit and slender red flowers, giving a completely different effect. 

Can make a large scrambling shrub in milder areas but may be frosted to the ground in colder conditions.
£15