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Fuchsia

MartineBMartineB Posts: 68
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My fuchsia Mrs Pople is still asleep or dead. Is anybody else having the same worries? I would love to hear from you fuchsias experts

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I thought mine was dead yesterday. Today I found some tiny green shoots so don't give up hope just yet.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Yes I've got a few which are just coming through, and a couple which are probably dead as they were too hot last summer, but I'll give them another couple of weeks.. don't give up on it yet. 
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I thought Delta Sarah was dead but she now has some little green shoots at the bottom.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • MartineBMartineB Posts: 68
    Thank you all. You give me hope 
    i really liked my Mrs Poole. Up to last year it was such a good performer 
  • Robert WestRobert West Posts: 241
    Gave up on my Lady Boothby and replaced it this week but the other (six??) varieties I've got have all survived. Some as normal but most have died off to the ground and just started sending up new stems from the very bottom. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They’re late this year, wait a bit longer.
    @Robert West I thought that with my Lady Boothby  but just today I saw a shoot from the ground.
    They need to be cut back to the ground,  kick starts them into shooting. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    I've just sawn through the 3in diameter stem of my two F magellanica "alba".  One had green shoots comng from the roots.

    Went looking for Mrs Popple - no signs.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Accidentally knocked a shoot off hawkshead. I hope it'll try again. Should've left the weeds around it for a little longer😐
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Sue AbrahamSue Abraham Posts: 1
    My magellenica which is over 30 years old and 8 ft tall is dead but is resprouting with very tender shoots from the base - think they will need supporting.  Another two are resprouting from the base as well but a couple of others are completely dead.  One in a pot has survived but one next to it is completely dead1  Very random!!
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