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Advice on Fuschia, please.
Hello All. Hope everyone is well!
I got a Fuschia last year from a cutting. Not sure which one. It didn't do much last year. I chopped it back from about 1.5 foot tall to a few buds from the ground in spring.
All year it's been creeping up an archway I made, and I kept tying it off to hold it up, very leggy. It's about seven feet tall now and then suddenly over the last couple of weeks it just grew shoots out everywhere and is flowering loads. It looks lovely.
Just wondering if a plant like this always needs to be cut back or can I just leave it. I don't mind if it's tall and scraggly, just like all the flowers. I just remember somewhere saying to cut back Fuschias every spring.
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Hi Jack
We had a very mild winter last year and 2 of my fuchsias didn't die back. Mostly they do and you can cut them back to the ground in spring
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ah thank you nutcutlet. It's nice they are flowering so much at this time of year! Yes it was like we didn't have a winter last year. Wonder what this year will be like.
I'll be quite happy with 2 hard frosts and no snow just like we had last year.
Fuchsias are at their best now aren't they. I have some as lodgers, looking after them for a friend, lovely.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I grow lots of fuchsias, do about 100 cuttings now, used to do more.
As yours has grown to 7ft in the garden its obviously a hardy, wait till you see new shoots on it in the Spring then chop the whole lot down to the ground, it will make more shoots from the ground still grow to 7ft tall but have many more flowers, cover the ground around it with a big pile of coost, leaves or anything you have. They are toughies, ours are donkeys years old, in spite of Dartmoor winds and rain.
Follow the same method for any you everwinter in the greenhouse, they all respond the same.
Is it like this one, or has it got the tiny flowers?
Hi Jack 3, I wonder if it is a Lady Boothby? I posted a question a few weeks ago about how to care for one. If you put Lady Boothby fuschia into 'search' all the advice I was given will appear and there is also an excellent website. Looking forward to mine performing as well as yours has. I did manage to get four cuttings which are doing well in the greenhouse.
Hi Lyn, just realised I'm looking at a picture of your fuschia and not Jack's. I will be delighted if mine looks like that next year.
It is nice Billie,, but just going off a bit now,that was taken a week ago, the tiny flowered ones are very tall and will bloom for a lot longer.
We have those enormous hedge ones here in the garden, there are some with a tiny very pale pink flower, tiny but loaded.
The others are the bog standard red/purple. Is it just a South West thing then, those hedge ones?
Those wild ones were the only ones that didnt get rusty this year.