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Over wintering hanging basket fuchsia
primrosecottage
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Hi guys hope your day is as sunny as here
I've emptied out the hanging baskets and potted up the geraniums for the winter but I'm not sure how to treat the trailing fuchsia a couple still have flowers and buds ,others are a bit stick like with a few leaves. I have an unheated greenhouse. Any tips would be appreciated.
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good question and one I asked myself not an hour ago. Let's hope somebody knows!
Oh plant pauper I thought you were a tip buddy
. Got all excited
Do the same as your geraniums, but check all of them for vine weevil, then leave them in the greenhouse or conservatory, hardly wet, just damp, then next spring when you see tiny leaf buds forming, chop them back right back down to a set of leaf buds about 2inches from the bottom. Some people spray them with water in the spring, I don't bother, that's up to you if you have time.
pot into new compost when they start to grow.
Thanks Lyn
will do that tomorrow and Sunday ,they'll have to stay outside untill I've cleared and cleaned the greenhouse but with the predicted Indian summer I think they will be ok . I might give them a water with vine weevil wash just to make sure cos my begonia got them last year and they were a devil to clear .
Sorry about the false start primrose.
The vine weevil wash is a good idea. I had loads of seedlings of different bits and pieces and I went out one morning to a massacre. It looked as if someone had gone across the whole lot with a cheese wire! Indian Summer my aunt Fanny. It would skin you here and I'm never cold 
When's it starting? We didn't even get an ordinary Summer here!
Hello , I over winter fusias , one in pot & hanging basket , in unheated g/h , clean off any flowers , dead leaves . I don't water them , then in spring repot , new compost and trim them and off they go , pleased to say haven't had vine weevil problem for some time
Obviously depends on how cold it gets if they survive
Best of luck
Thanks gwrs
hadn't thought of putting them back in hanging baskets but that's sounds a really good idea space wise
oh! i put mine in the compost not thinking they would overwinter in an unheated greenhouse
Quick! Fish em out!
Hello agian , I also over winter a clematis ball in the greenhouse , this is 2 hanging baskets made into ball using cable ties and 4 small clemaitis , I trim , leave then clean up in Spring a bit of clean compost , feed and off they go ( hope that makes sense )
again depends on how cold it gets , I do put bubble rap in the greenhouse