Hi all. bought some hardy fuschias last year. they are planted in big tubs and did really well last year. They have been close to the house all winter but they just look like a few dead sticks at the moment with no life. Apart from digging them up can I tell if they are alive.
Use your nail to tear the stem and if they show green they are alive and if they are start to spray with tepid water.
Mine look like dead sticks too - but I can just see tiny signs of growth starting. Be patient - they should be OK.
my fushia i had for 10 years it dies last year, I have tested mine and its definately dead, it was a lovely plant, never mind i got another one last year and it is growing fine
I took late cuttings of mine last year to make sure if they died I would still have the same flowers - and of course with the mild winter we had, mine are all fine. Fuchsias everywhere now!
Mine is showing new growth from the base of the plant and not the "dead sticks", when it's a bit bigger I will cut down the dead sticks. Not sure if this the correct way to do things but seems the most sensible to me
I have one which grows through a standard azalea, because that looks a bit messy I hard prune the fuschia every March right to the base, this allows us to see the azalea flowers and then the fuschia flowers when it grows back.
I haven't bought fuschias for years. I overwinter them in the shed (or greenhouse, now that I've got one!). They die back to dead looking sticks, but new shoots appear magically once I start watering them in the Spring. I take some cuttings, but the parent plants are always fine too - so far, anyway!
Ha ha!!! johnny five he's alive!!! tiny little sprouty bits (technical term) at the bottom of the tigs.
