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Fuchsia hedge

josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
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I have just replaced part of my front fence with a row of big stones, and I would like to plant a row of fuchsias behind the stones which I can grow into a hedge.  Please can someone suggest a suitable variety?  It's clay soil on limestone and a very mild climate.

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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I've just answered my own question with a few minutes websurfing; most sites recommend Fuchsia magellanica which comes in a few varieties of different coloured flowers and one with yellowy foliage.  I'm tempted to steal a few cuttings from a hedge round the corner which flowers profusely, the flowers are shorter and rounder and a deeper red than magellanica.  IlI' do some more surfing and see if I can identify it.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Magellanica is certainly the hardiest and I like the long, fine flowers for a hedge.   Love the shorter, fatter blooms too and even the very blosuy ones but in pots and planters, not as a hedge.   
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    If you want a large hedge, I personally prefer Riccartonii to magellanica… that might be the one you've been looking at... see what you think... you see Riccartonii a lot in Cornwall and other gardens that grow these hedges well...   it goes especially well with a shorter white hydrangea hedge in front of it...
    East Anglia, England
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I use this one, very hardy, will grow to about 5’ I suppose, but I cut them right back to the ground in Spring.  I’ve always got cuttings going, can’t resist it.😀 I think it’s called Mrs Popple but not entirely sure.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    That one is on my list Lyn, not that I need another hardy fuchsia exactly, but because when I was a kid Mum used to get fresh veg from a Mrs Popple, who sold them from the tiny front garden of her little terrace house. I can still picture her now, plump and smiley, black dress, hair in an untidy bun... It would be nice to have a fuchsia for her :)
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Lyn said:
    I use this one, very hardy, will grow to about 5’ I suppose, but I cut them right back to the ground in Spring.  I’ve always got cuttings going, can’t resist it.😀 I think it’s called Mrs Popple but not entirely sure.


    Thank you Lyn, for some reason I've only just discovered your post.  That certainly looks like the one round the corner, and I've just checked it out and it can be grown as a hedge.  Yours looks very happy.
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