I love fuchsias! I had 50-60 varieties when I lived in Seattle and on the Olympic peninsula. So beautiful and free flowering, they seemed impossibly exotic to someone raised in a colder climate. Now that I'm back where it tends to be too cold to overwinter them, fuchsias are brilliant spots of color in the greenhouse off season. Outside of the greenhouse, though, baskets are nearly impossible to keep moist enough in the summer, despite all of the ones that are starting to show up for sale in the big box stores.
I missed out on the fuchsia mites, thank goodness, though I never tried to grow fuchsias when I lived in California. I have seen the more mundane white mites on them, though, and fuchias are one of the plants that get regular washdowns to discourage them.
Marinka here has long been my wife's favorite:
