, I used to travel a lot to different shows, it was at one of these shows, I saw a fuchsia I really wanted, it had just won first place, half joking I asked the grower if he would let me take some cuttings and he did. 
Well all but one cutting didn't take, but the one that did take lived for about 28 years, was moved several times and hundreds of miles, until 3 winters ago, we had quite a freeze and we lost all our fish, from the pond, plus a few shrubs and of course fred (the fuchsia).
I know it was just a plant, but it had been around for a big part of my life, I had fed, watered, trimmed and looked after it, I didn't have the heart to dig its dead roots out and for the last couple of years, the OH has looked at me sadly whenever I said, it will come back. For the last two summers there has just been a few dry twigs sticking out of the ground, until I was reclaiming the bed, this year, for some sweet peas and found this:
Fred lives!
And once he gets a bit bigger, there will be a lot of little Freds, I'm not going to lose it again
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