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  • The English Garden

    Tiny Dancer

    Apr 07, 2022 1 minute
    WORDS CLARE FOGGETT

    Fuchsias can be a divisive plant: some gardeners love them, others really don’t – particularly when it comes to those hybrids with the over-the-top, slightly chubby, ballerina-tutu flowers. Yet there. Its flowers are slender, elegant, graceful. In a world of Mavis Cruets, is Margot Fonteyn.

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