Heydon

Hybrid by Clitheroe (British) 1981
Parentage Nancy Lou X The 13th Star

(Photo Kenneth Nilsson S) © 1995
Notice the perfect, filtered sunlight. This is about as much sun as most fuchsias can like. But they can stand more sun...
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More pictures of Heydon.

("camera cheat" - not so blue... actually, white, soft pink and powder blue)
Some fuchsias really have a beatiful blue colour, but I must admit that the bottom picture here is a bit too blue. Heydon does however have a startling lavender-blue, very double corolla and pinkish-white tube and sepals. It is very free flowering. Actually so free flowering that the branches occasionally break from the weight of the flowers. The growth is lax bush and will need staking as a bush. I haven't tried Heydon as a basket plant but I assume it would excel as one. Use light weights .

In case you can't find "Heydon" at your Nursery here is a list of other white/pink and blue cultivars you can ask for instead.

P.S.
Heydon has been around among fuchsiasts here in Sweden for many years but under the 'false name'. 'Crusader'. Due to its beauty it has been widely spread under this name so I hereby urge Swedish visitors to this page to change the names of their 'Crusaders' to 'Heydon', unless you have bought 'Crusader' from a nursery. Then it's probably true you have a 'Crusader'.