SHOPPERS are running to Home Bargains to snap up a “beautiful” plant that will give gardens a colour boost – and it's only £5.99.
So if you're looking to give your outdoor space a cheap spruce up in time for summer, you've come to the right place.
Gardening experts gush that the flowers dangle in pairs “like mini ballerinas with tutus”.
And the hardy plant is even well-known for coming back each year, meaning you're getting great value for your money.
Posting on theExtreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group, which boasts 2.6million members, one bargain hunter shared a snap of her new plant.
Sammi said alongside the snap: “Pyramid fuchsias £5.99 from Home Bargains this morning. Seems a great price for this size!”
According to the Royal Horticultural Society, hardy fuchsias can survive winter without being brough indoors and bloom beautifully in April.
They say: “The flowers dangle in pairs, like mini ballerinas with tutus, along the stems towards the tips.
“Colours include pale pinkish-white, and all shades of pink, red and violet-purple. Some have golden, variegated or slightly darker green leaves, adding to the contrast with the flowers.
“During a hard winter the growth will often die back, but new growth will appear from below the ground in spring. Prune back the dead to allow the new shoots through in mid to late April.
“Hardy fuchsia can survive outside in most UK gardens without the need for cossetting over winter indoors.
“These fuchsias tend to have an upright habit with the stems arching towards the tips, under the weight of the flowers. “
They also revealed that taller varieties like the pyramid fuchsia being sold by Home Bargains can make “attractive flowering hedges”.
So it's unsurprising that gardening fans are racing to snap up the colourful plant.
“Absolutely love fuchsias”, one gushed.
Impressed with the price, a second wrote: “That's good was £8.99 in Lidl other day.”
A third cried: “Looks like we need another trip to Home Bargains.”
“My favourite plant”, chimed in a fourth.
A fifth said: “These will be lovely in nice pots on patio. Beautiful when they flower.”
And a sixth wrote: “Beautiful, I love these.”
Other shoppers, meanwhile, took to the comments to share their experience of growing the hardy plant.
One person said: “They do [come back each year] tho I have lost a couple of them over the years if we have had hard frosts.”
Someone else revealed: “Mine has just started to grow again after I cut it back in October.”
A third echoed: “Mine died back over winter. I cut it back to above ground and it's sprouting again. The hardy fuchsia need the dead cutting back. They grow on new wood.”
Meanwhile, another person added: “I bought one from there last year, it was beautiful it got to a lovely size, and it’s survived the winter lots of green coming through.”
