Looking forward to seeing how your gorgeous black fuchsia does this year, Kathy, it was a beauty! Perhaps you could post the picture of it again here? We also tend to only cut back by about half in the autumn when we bring them into the Wintergarten for the cold period, then trim the scraggy wild shoots off before they go out again in the spring. Oh, and Hubby swears by this "blue corn" stuff, puts it on everything. It is little round blue pellets, don't know the name of it, but am sure that one of our guys here will give the proper name.
HI Kedi-Gato hope its as nice as last year,is it little feed pellets,that would be handy,i usually just use Miracle Grow,everything seems just to look so good,in the late autumn i give the garden a good dollop of Grow More, rake it in and leave it till spring,then a little feed of bone meal,also have Miracle Grow for Azelias,as i keep them in huge pots
GORGEOUS! I was taken with it last year and looking at that pic again, I am still taken with it, Kathy. Fingers crossed that it does as well again this year.
Way to go Kathy that looks like rhoese black you sometimes get the odd flower turning out all red due to reversion but even this flower is attractive.
I went through a fuschia growing phase many years ago and this thread has made me want to start again, they really are the most striking plants and with very little care, they will live for years. The only thing I could add to this thread is that with specimens of dubious hardiness,leave them in their pots, they won't grow that big anyway, the bush type are fully hardy. I used to bury the pot in the flower bed and dig it up at the end of the year before the real bad weather and over winter the plant in a garage. This thing about BUYING fuschias??? That I don't understand. Stick a bit of fuschia in a pot and it grows. When I was fully fuschia hardy,if I saw a plant I liked, I would ask it's owner if I could take two or three growing tips from it,I was never refused and people were amazed at how little was required to grow a new plant. Put the tip in slightly damp fine compost and sand with a plastic bag on it's head and soon you've got a new plant.
Kathy love your fuchsia but beware if we are in your neck of the woods will be with my poly bag to get a cutting a real beauty. Terrier if you have Morrisons supermarket near you they are selling fuchsia plugs 6 for �£1.99 very good quality plants. And larger fuchsias for �£1.29 I bought Paula Jane,La Camenella,Snowcapo and Shrimp Cocktail. I like you had a pell of growing fuchsias and overwinterign but I buried all mine then lifeted folowign spring. But a lot work and as hit or a miss and the price of fresh plugs are not dear and grow quick. And I am sure a few of us fuchsia lovers could swap cuttings with each other.
hi all has anybody ever been round "the dingle" in eire it is so beautiful facing the atlantic and covered in fuschias,in eire you see them used as hedging,obviously the hardy varieties
Ooh thanks everyone, you have given me hope - though I had planned on inspecting them at the weekend as I had found VW grubs in one of my pots and thought this also might be the reason they haven't sprouted. Cheers EGW.
There are a lot of Fuchsias that will overwinter well. One way to grow them is when planting them bury them 3 to 4 inches lower than in the pot, this helps to protect the roots in winter. Never cut them down untill April (mine still have all the old branches on). Give them a mulch in October, this also helps protect the roots. Here are a few that are classed as hardy. Abbe farges Alice Hoffman Beacon Brilliant Brutus Caledonia Cardinal Farges Charming Chillerton Beauty Cliffs Hardy Display Dollar Princess Dopey Dr Foster Flashlight Garden News General Monk Genii Happy Joan Cooper Lady Boothby Lady Thumb Lena Magellancia and Varients (small flowers) Margery Blake Mrs Popple Phyllis President Riccartonii (small flowers) Rose of Castile imp Rufus Santa Cruz Sleepy Son of Thumb The Tarns Snowcap Thornleys Hardy Tom Thumb White Pixie Whitenights Pearl. Trevor
Wow many thanks all, sorry I havent been in for ages. I will find really hardy ones and stick them in sheltered bits -- none of the garden gets waterlogged as I'm on a hillside. Magic thanks. And thanks Andy Capp as well, love him ! I have more daft questions, will post them now.
