FUCHSIAS - 2017

pick these up yesterday.


this is a list of fuchsias I got,
floen de neige, sal n pepper, president stanley wilson, F. venusta, snowflake, schneewitchen, fuchsiade 88, space shuttle, F. boliviana, flying scotsman, riji 2001, lady in black, cotta christmas tree, the tarns, lechlade gorgon, straat futami, roos breytenbach, star wars, F. fulgens grandifloria, caledonia, var. lottie hoddy, gartenmeister bonstedt

 

Also found Mrs Popple to be extremely hardy and long lasting eg 30 years +

Generally I cut out / down any lengthy stems at the end of the autumn flowering to avoid root rock / look tidy etc.

This year all my outside pots and in the ground fuchsias are now breaking leaf.

How much you prune down is really down to how big you want the plant to grow this year.

Even if woody looking stems have no sign of buds yet, you can always check if they are alive by running your nail down 10mm of it so the bark is removed.
If its an obvious green underneath then its alive and will propably bud soon.

I would not hesistate about pruning to the desired size /shape now, and I'm up in the Pennine hills; done mine already. If any sharpe frost nipped the yound leaves , feel sure they would soon send out new ones; they seem very tough to weather and man !

For a change, I planted a couple of Lady Boothby ' climbers ' last year, got to 6Ft, very fast growers, masses of flowers , survived this mild winder with no problems.
Also trying out its sister plant this year , Pink Fizz

 

fuchsia riji 2001

 

Hi Armandll. Thanks for input ,I have now pruned my hardies down and all growing well

 

Anybody got a hardy Falklands or Pam Plack?? Thinking of buying both of them but they may be just too small at 60cm.

 

Hi All. Many years ago I purchased 3 x fuchsia triphylla in if I can remember 7cm pots. Left them to harden off and re potted them in large 20cm pots and they all died!!
I am pretty sure it was the re potting into large pots which killed them but not sure.

Any way would like to have another go so the question is are they in fact any harder to grow than the normal fuchsia? What got my interest again was Triphylla Eruption which can be grown in pot or hanging basket.The picture below is of Eruption.
There must be more varieties of Triphylla out there which members grow so any pointers & photos would be great. Many Thanks

 

Have had the more common Triphylla Thalia growing for the last couple of years without any problems.

One is in a 30cm pot outdoors in the summer and it is covered with masses of flowers, almost covering all the leaves.

Having all three of your plants dying off when you repotted them, sounds more like diseased plants as supplied or a sudden overnight frost as seems they cannot withstand any ..?

Did you look at their roots as Vine Weevil grubs could have been the problem.

Am no expert, but I'd say get some more, and keep protected until all frosts have gone.

Also take some cuttings from them so you always have some in reserve; they should root quickly in this mild weather, though some gentle heat might help.

 

Am only a novice with greenhouse Fuchsias but this might help.

Have a dozen or so different varieties including tender trailers like VooDoo and Thalia etc and they have all survived the winter in the greenhouse.
The older plants kept many of their leaves though winter, but they have now dropped in favour of new buds.
I have cut them back by about 50% , mainly to clean out any thin branches /retain a good shape.

The greenhouse is frost free heated by an accurate heater /temp sensor /min-max display and never drops below 3c, even when outsides been down -5c in January.

Bringing them into the house then think are likey to continue to grow as believe they are more of a plant that relies on warmth rather than just light length... ?

Somewhere like an unheated bedroom thats unlikely to freeze or easy to put in a small electric heater with a frost setting for the odd night it does go very low; though do you get many frosts that far south ??

 

First flowers of the year for me.

Shrimp Cocktail (hardy) but over wintered in frost free greenhouse, been outside for 3 weeks now.

 

My fuchsia list

Adinda
Annabel
Autumnale
Blacky
Blue Angel
Bronze Bank Penninsula
Caledonia
Cape Cornwall
Carmel Blue
Celtic Beauty
Cherry Pop
Cotta Bright Star
Cotta Christmas Tree
Daisy Bell
Dancing Flame
Debron Black Cherry
Delta Sarah
El Camino
Empress of Prussia
Eric's Hardy
Falklands
Four Farthings
Flash
Flying Scotsman
Floen de Neige
Frank Saunders
Fuchsiade 88
Fuksie Foetsie
Garden Week
Gartenmeister Bonstedt
Glazioviana
Gris
Hartwegii
Hatschbachii
Ian Storey
Jack Shahon
Katrina
Lady Boothby
Lady in Black
Lechlade Gorgon
Lottie Hobby
Lottie Hobby var
Lyonesse Lady
Magellanica Myrtifolia
Margaret
Marles De Keijzer
Misson Bell
My Little Sparkler
My Mum
Olive Smith
Orange Star
Oriental Express
Oulton Tu-Fu
Pink Fizz
President Stanley Wilson
President Peter Holloway
Purple Mountain
Riji 2001
Roos Breytenbach
Salt n Pepper
Scarlet Jester
Schneewitchen
Seventh Heaven
Siberoet
Snowflake
Space Shuttle
Speciosa
Star Wars
Straat Futumi
Straat Magelhaen
Tangerine
Tennessee Waltz
The Tarns
Turkish Delight
Wake the Harp
Whiteknights Blush
White Gold
Winterworth

F x bacillatis
F. arborescens
F. boliviana
F. colensoi
F. colensoi purpurascans
F. excorticate
F. fulgens
F. microphylla subsp hemseyna [silver lining]
F. microphylla
F. microphylla pink
F. prescandens
F. procumbens
F. procumbens var
F. riccartonii
F. tymifolia
F. venusta


If anyone wants to do swaps are buy any please PM all cuttings are done to order