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Frost damage

Susan.gibson7Susan.gibson7 Posts: 8
in Problem solving
Frost damage on my new fuchsia, how can I save it any advise would be very welcome. Some places say leave the damaged buds and leaves some cut them off. I’m confused lol.

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  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    What was it doing outside? It doesn't matter if it is a tender or a hardy fuchsia, it looks as though it has been forced into growth under cover and would need a period of adjustment before going outside for the summer. It shouldn't go out until the danger of frost has passed. And so to the damage......I'd trim off the parts that have been attacked by the icy weather. It's a nice shaped plant and it will bush out again.
  • Susan.gibson7Susan.gibson7 Posts: 8
    Yes I was very dumb putting out so soon, I get to eager 🙄. I have brought it in now and stood it in a bowl of water and just going to put it out during the day.Thank you for your help I will try taking the damaged bit off and see how it goes.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    @Ceres, I expect many new gardeners know nothing of hardening off their purchases from garden centers.  I didn't figure it out for years, until I really got into reading about gardening and such.  It's not like most staff give any advice about doing so when you make a purchase.. there are no signs.. or after care advice on the tags, etc.  It's an easy thing to not understand.  Especially when we watch gardening shows take plants right from the back of the delivery truck or GC and direct into the ground.  

    Susan, just give it a good trim (up to a third of each branch length) and it will bush out fine.  
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  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    edited April 2021
    It makes me quite angry that garden centres and DIY places will sell perfectly beautiful plants and not give any advice on how to care for them. There must be thousands of purchases that are lost each year due to this and it must be very off-putting to new gardeners to find that they have wasted their money on something that ends up dead. Anyone buying a gorgeous plant at this time of year would be perfectly within their rights to assume that you could stick the thing in the garden and it would thrive but a warning on the label or a quiet word at the till could alert them to the danger posed by frost. Successful gardeners will buy more plants.....it's addictive......but those who have paid out good money and found the occupation a disappointment might be discouraged and go down the concrete and astroturf route. Unless we've grown up with obsessive gardeners, it's all too easy to get it wrong. Perhaps garden centres could provide leaflets with a glossary of gardening terms.....that would be a start.
  • Susan.gibson7Susan.gibson7 Posts: 8
    thank you Ceres x
  • Susan.gibson7Susan.gibson7 Posts: 8
    I will try that thank you Blue onion x
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