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Any chance of saving this plant?

ariadna.bakhmatovaariadna.bakhmatova Posts: 118
in Problem solving
I planted this fuchsia last summer and it was blooming and growing beautifully but right now it looks like this.. is there no chance of saving this plant , I guess?

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  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    Should be OK. Clear away the leaves and debris on the ground and you should soon see new shoots. Someone else may have more info re pruning.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Scrape a little bark off with your finger nail. If it's green underneath, it's alive. Try a few twigs because some did off anyway.
    Bear in mind that some fuchsia aren't hardy. Do you know the variety?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    edited February 2021
    'Hardy' fuchsias often look like that at this time year. I would expect to see some tiny green shoots appearing from the base or stems sometime in March - especially if the weather continues to be mild. Once it gets going the shoots grow quite quickly.

    That said I have lost 'hardy' fuchsias in a cold winter in my heavy clay soil - and it's only a couple of weeks since we had some very cold temps.

    I'd give it until May before deciding it might have passed to the great compost heap in the sky and even then I'd check using the method described by B3.

    If it's NOT a hardy fuchsia - it will almost certainly not have survived the recent snow and cold snap.
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • ariadna.bakhmatovaariadna.bakhmatova Posts: 118
    Thank you all! Do I need to cut off the very dry top at all? 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Wait until you see new growth, then cut back to just above (which might be ground level - for me it varies from year to year depending on how cold it's been).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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