Thank you Bonehead (seems weird to say that!), Yes, I have some time and an hour of my husbands time to devote to planting them so I'm thinking I will do that today. I love fuchsias. I'm not native to Washington... from Arizona in fact. But I would come up and visit my grandparents here and I remembered seeing fuchsias and thinking they were too perfect and beautiful to be real... and so I actually thought that people kept plastic hanging baskets full of plastic flowers! I moved here about 20 years ago and eventually realized they were just very beautiful "real" plants. Thanks for your response!