Remarks : Older information states Roe, 1970 as hybridiser and parentage as ‘Joy Patmore x Glitters’. This was corrected by Boullemier in 1991 : ‘Subsequent information reveals that George Roe was not the raiser but the introducer. The cultivar was raised by Don Bellamy of Bardney, Lincolnshire, and a chance seedling of Pepi.)’, extremely vigorous, one of the very best
Named : after the daughter of the introducer George Roe, Celia Roe – George Roe’s daughter – married Martyn Smedley. The fuchsia named after her was a wedding present from her father