Saving the bacon.

''Fuchsia magellanica 'Lady Bacon' .Dwarf, very hardy deciduous Fuchsia with small leaves & striking slender flowers with a white calyx & a plumy pink corolla produced all summer. We think this is a really good little plant. 60cm''

That's what it said when I looked it up.

You've doubtless met/heard of/know people who say that any indoor plant they buy is inevitably doomed to a slow, lingering, death.

I'm a bit of a Fuchsiaholic who suffers a similar affliction. As a loose generalisation my digits are all pretty green, except in the Fuchsia department, they are either left out and siberia'ed to death or taken in for protection, then Sahara'ed to death.

This is the most recent to enter the condemned cell. We'll know early next year how hardy she is.

Not a lot ''shot'' today, it was either this or yet another car number-plate which seemed to belong to an ex-Welshman. ... An Audi 4X4 bearing the plate which appeared to read... ''WOSS TAF''

Comical aside.
To illustrate a truly warped mind. Since Fuschias are, almost certainly, Christened in honour of a (Probably) German gent called Herr Fuchs, why aren't they pronounced ''Fooksias''?
;¬))
Probably the same reason as the Yanks, who will insist on pronouncing Herb as Erb, also insist on pronouncing the ''H'' when talking about a ''Heinous'' crime.