It's Fuchsia ...

[MereDintofPandiculation]

and not Fuschia, Fushcia or any other spelling

Named after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (or Mr Fox in English), which is how I remember it "Fuchs -ia". Just have to remember not to say it that way

That's how I remember it too!

Obviously, but some ppl just can’t spell or are totally ignorant!!

That'll be me then.🤚 I posted a thread and spelt fuchsia wrongly on the gardening section here today. I obviously can't spell or am totally ignorant. Cheers for that.

I thought the gardening board had a reputation for being nice and welcoming. Guess not.

One can, though, be the kind of person who loves and appreciates both plants and correct spelling and grammar.
Dint (may I call you dint? , I salute you.

I can spell plant names but didn't know the word pandiculation.
So I'm happy to learn something new.

Do you think it will over winter outdoors?

Obviously, but some ppl just can’t spell or are totally ignorant!! No, but people aren't familiar with botanical "Latin" so don't have inbuilt spelling rules in their heads.

Do you think it will over winter outdoors? Some varieties are hardy, some are not. I'd say there's a chance yours may be one of the hardy ones, though the sheer number of non-hardy varieties means the probability is low. Take some cuttings so you still have a plant for next year if it fails and give it a try.

Fuchsia, fuchsia, fuchsia. My garden is full of it and I just can’t get the spelling right. I’ve just posted on another thread and copied the spelling from the person above because it looked right (@Justmuddlingalong was it you?). Aaaargh.

I have about 20 of them, up to 15’ tall. And billions of babies. And every possible spelling in my gardening notebook.

Fuchsia, fuch-sia , fuch-seer. I won’t forget now, thanks!

@peakotter. No that wasn't me. That was another variation of the wrong spelling. 😁 But, I'm sure most people can overlook the misspelling of a word someone uses infrequently.

While we are on the subject of plant pedantry, it is 'ker-toe-knee-aster' not 'cotton-easter'.

I never know how to spell buddleja. (or many things to be honest)

I think I switch between both versions just in case

Fuchsia, fuch-sia , fuch-seer. I won’t forget now, thanks! My mother used "Egg whipped" for the country on the Nile.

I never know how to spell buddleja There is a lot of ambivalence about j and i, with j often being used instead of an i to indicate the y sound when it's at the start of a syllable instead of being the vowel between two consonents. Hence the fake latin "Caesar had some jam for tea"

Caesar adsum iam forte
Brutus aderat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic inat.

Caesat is already hear in force/Brutus has arrived, Caesar [is] thus in everything/Brutus - and here the fake grammar and dodgy translation breaks down completely.

Fuchs sake

I always spell it fyoosher

Well some make take offence but this thread has given me a good laugh. And it's nothing to do with laughing at people who can't spell before some assumes it does.i can barely get my tongue round most Latin names never mind remembering them and spelling them too.