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Why is my Fuchsia dying?!

chris.weekschris.weeks Posts: 27
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Afternoon and Happy Easter!

i recently planted 2 Fuchsia plants at the front of the house and for some reason they are slowly dying 😔.

i have attached some pics and the plants were the same size when i bought them (no growth) but now look a lot worse!

at first i thought i maybe over watered them (especially as i have pebble coverage on the ground) but they just havent recovered and after reading, im worried it may be verticillium wilt.

 An anyone please offer any help/advice?

Thanks in advance 
chris 
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The white on the leaves was damage from cold, I haven’t planted mine out yet.
    I would cut that right back to a healthy set of buds, doesn't  matter how low, they will grow again from the base,   you can’t over water them, maybe remove the gravel away from the plants.
    hopefully now the nights are getting warmer they’ll pick up. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • chris.weekschris.weeks Posts: 27
    Hey Lyn, thanks very much for your help. I planted them only a couple of weeks ago and didnt think it had been that cold. When you say cut it right back, do you mean prune it to the ground like its a rose and remove all pf the wilted leaves/branches. I thought id lost it and was considering taking them out and starting again! 
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    To be in flower so early they have been raised in artificial conditions so aren't ready to be planted out when you buy them and need some shelter for a few weeks - garden centres in particular are a bit naughty in not telling you this.  Hopefully, it will recover with this unusually warm weather we are having now, as Lyn says.  My hardy ones are just coming into leaf this week.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don’t give up on it yet, they’re quite tough but I think maybe they had been grown inside so weren’t used the cold nights, we’ve had colder nights lately than through the winter. 

    Cut back to where they look ok, if it’s right down, then do it, they shoot up from the bottom, but what you have there won’t recover so nothing to lose. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154



  • chris.weekschris.weeks Posts: 27
    Thanks Lyn 🙂 there is a common theme on the feedback on a few sites to prune it down, so that i will tomorrow! Thanks again 
  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    edited April 2019
    This is an all too common problem when planting out new plants raised in a nurtured environment .
    All good advice though , whatever the forum ! ;)


  • chris.weekschris.weeks Posts: 27
    Thanks Paul  :)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I grow lots  of fuchsias,  not as many as I used to, about 200, but not so silly now!  Trying to ease the workload, getting too old for it 😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • chris.weekschris.weeks Posts: 27
    200?! You have your work cut out! 
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