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Fuschia "cherry" thingies
Jennifer80
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Please can someone tell me what the cherry looking things are which are appearing on my fuschia once flowers die? Are they seeds? Should I just cut them off? Help please.
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seeds yes, you can leave or cut off. I expect most serious fuchsia growers cut them off .
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, the seed pods often called Fuchsia Berries - they're edible
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/edible-flowers
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's probably more accurate to say they aren't toxic, Dove!
If you leave them on they will stop flowering,best to pick them off ,as long as you keep taking them off you Fuchsias will flower well into autumn
I have friends who enjoy them in fruit salads
One of them said, "Yes indeed- I always think they taste like slightly anaemic cherries. If I could source enough of them I'd try making fuchsia jam or jelly."
Last edited: 10 September 2016 15:09:53
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.