Fuchsias - 2016

Hi Michael,

Thanks, Pam beat you to it Lol

" Cymru "

Double : Tube and sepals Ivory tipped green. Corolla Ivory/pale pink. Bush. Large flowers.

Looking through my old catalogues, Victoriana Nursery Gardens in Ashford, Kent ( phone no 01233 740529 ) were selling it last year.

The prices last year were £3.95 each.
They do mail order to the mainland UK ( sorry I don't know where you live ) but their p+p costs are quite complicated ( it says they calculate it on weight, where you are in the country and when you want it dispatched ) and start at £3.95, so I've never used them.

 

Thank you Anthony. I didn't read all the comments so didn't know Pam had already told you
Better to be told twice than not at all though

Thanks for the information about Cymru. I'll see if I can get one.
(I live near Carmarthen in south Wales.)

 

My Delta Sarah are not showing yet , after a relatively mild winter in a sheltered spot Is it time to panic yet ?
I grew F. Windchimes darkeyes in a Begonia basket last year , it performed really well . Just bought two more Windchimes , red and white and neon and white . Now I notice Windchimes® has a trademark symbol . So will these other two types perform similarly or will they be completely different Fuchsias under the Windchime logo ?

 

I moved them last year and thought the same, they were just twigs for months. In fact I don't think they flowered until Autumn. Just leave them be and see what happens in the next few weeks is my advice.

Does anyone here have a splendens or denticulata? I would like to try either of those.

 

Fuchsia Paniculata

 

Love that

 

Hi @HarryS ,

As regards to you Deltas Sarah don't give up yet. With all the cold weather we've been having the last week or so it could just have slowed them down a little. Don't forget that hardy Fuchsias planted outside permanently don't start flowering until the end of July/ beginning of August.

" Windchimes " is a registered trademark of the company/person who breeds and sells them on.
Say if you were to breed a new variety of carrot, you could sell it as " Harrys orange carrot ", then if you were to introduce another one ( but a more traditional purple one ) you could call it " Harrys purple carrot ", and so on.
So, as long as their breeding programme is of high enough standards then they should all be of the same quality.

 

Cheers @Anthony Rogers , just been out to have another look at Deltas S , no signs yet . The weather bucks up a couple of notches this week - so fingers crossed

 

Having a bit of a problem in deciding what I should be pinching out
on a Bush type Fuchsia........do I pinch ALL the growing tips, as in the
picture and would this also apply to trailing types as well?

 

Hi Intel,

Yeah, that's the way to do it. One thing, though, unless you're going to use the tips as cuttings you could just pinch out the very tips.
( For instance, on the tall one at the back you could leave another set of leaves on the plant. )

Definitely do trailers as well, otherwise you just end up with a long straggly plant with a few flowers on the end of each branch.

 

Thanks Anthony, will pinch them out tomorrow, as recommended it will just
be the tips

 

Got this today, one of my favourites, Autumnale

 

Been reading on the net that people have been using Chicken Manure pellets on hardy fuchsias with good results, has anyone here used the chicken pellets before and could they be used on the non hardy types as well?

 

Quick general fuchsia questions if I may! I'd really like to get some of these, but I'm not sure on how to keep them after they have bloomed.

Last year I had two large-ish pots in the garden, but evidently they died during the winter as these pots are barren now. If I were to buy some more, can I keep them in pots? And if so, what did I do wrong, and how can I keep them alive during winter? I don't have a conservatory, although I do have a lean-to which can keep them out of the rain... would this work? Also what about hanging basket fuchsias - what do people do with them once they've bloomed?

Apologies for the twenty questions!

 

I've got sone in biggish pots and some in hanging basket size. All overwintered by being kept in an unheated greenhouse. I didn't let them completely dry out. They are shooting back to life now, the one worst affected by cold weather (a tender one I didn't put away til late) is still shooting from the base. So your barren pots might not be a lost cause. Definately take cuttings this year which you could over winter on a cool windowsill?
I didn't cut mine back til they started to show leaf buds.