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When do fuschia come into leaf / why are my fuschia all dead?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You grow them outside in the summer and bring in for the winter.
    if they’re not in leaf now, they’re dead I’m afraid. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It would have been the hardy ones you had growing up.  :)

    In some mild areas, the annual types will over winter if the conditions are right. Even the hardy ones go a bit rough in winter here.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • PoppypussPoppypuss Posts: 143
    Some of my hardy fuschia bushes are already starting to bud so it’s been a pretty mild winter in the NW. They go back to twigs below zero but have still pulled through after minus 6. With the tender ones, if you remove all leaves early winter and put into an unheated greenhouse or cool room inside they should re-emerge the next year no problem. 
  • Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
    I kept 3 hardy ones in pots outdoors unprotected all winter and they're in growth again. Can't remember any very cold spells over the winter though.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s why they’re called hardy, others are not so hardy, some are not hardy at all.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    One of them in your old photos still had the label: 'Sintons standard' and that one is not hardy and rated as H2 by the RHS (1 to 5C minimum, keep in a glasshouse over winter.)

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
    Lyn said:
    That’s why they’re called hardy, others are not so hardy, some are not hardy at all.
    Yeah but have read it can be hit and miss in unprotected pots.
  • MisterBoyMisterBoy Posts: 52
    Oh well, back to the drawing board for something to plant there. 

    Thanks all.
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