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Fuschia help!

annar_K2hTr1annar_K2hTr1 Posts: 13
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Hi. I’ve got a hardy fuschia that last year and year before grew approx 2x2 Ft and flowered brilliantly. This year it is just 2 stalks with leaves no more that 6” tall !! It’s looked silly next to the 2 plants it shares a bed with (they grew as usual) I’m wondering if I should take out and put in a pot so if it doesn’t do better next year I can keep it potted and use the space for something that will fill it properly. If so when is the best time to take it out and pot. I really don’t want to lose it -
it’s a clipping from my late grandads garden and I don’t have access to get another. Many thanks for any advice. 

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That's a pity @annar_K2hTr1. I wonder if it's dried out and also been affected by the odd weather patterns over the last year or two. The hardy ones are just that - very hardy, so cold weather shouldn't have been a problem, even the couple of sharp spells after milder weather last year and in early spring,  but they wouldn't like being dry long term. Is there a chance that's happened?
    If you have any photos - especially a before as well as a current one, that will help with advice.  :)
    If it's failing badly, you may as well lift it now, but it will help to see how it's growing. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • annar_K2hTr1annar_K2hTr1 Posts: 13
    Thanks @Fairygirl. I don’t have a pic of last summer but have attached one of early July 2021. It grew a fair bit bigger. Also attached a pic taken today. It’s def not dried out. I think I’ll lift it out then - just wasn’t sure if there was a particular time to do it  😊
  • salarsalar Posts: 11
    I would take cuttings" they can be done now"as it's of sentimental value to you to save it. From your picture  it looks like it's got another shoot sprouting from base.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s being chewed by vine weevils,  I would dig it up now,  you may find it has none or hardly any root on it,  if it has,  wash all the soil off and pot up in fresh compost. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I  also have  a  fuschia which has done the same but mine is a species type which my sister sent me.  I thought I had lost mine but two shoots eventually appeared so I have left it alone. I am going to look for a sucker before I take any cuttings. In your case it might be a good idea to take some cuttings to grow on as back up. I had just assumed the weather had affected mine as it grows in a very narrow space between the edge of a path and the house wall in amongst a clump of agapanthus. I will put some pieces of it in a glass of water  until they produce roots then pot them up as it has wonderful vermillion red flowers. No idea what its name is.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    It was a very cold winter.
     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."
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Did the cold winter encourage the vine weevils more?

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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