Fuschia

I loved these flowers as a child. They remind of of flower fairy with the petals being the skirt and the legs dangling underneath. I've tried growing them but have failed miserably. So I'm better just looking at them than trying to grow them!!

Fuchsia is a dancer

Dancing on her toes,

Clad in red and purple,

By a cottage wall;

Sometimes in a greenhouse,

In frilly white and rose,

Dressed in her best for the fairies'

evening ball!

A flower fairy alphabet poem by Cicely Mary Barker