Fuchsias

[chokkie]

Can anyone please tell me the difference in "looks" between a hardy fuchsia and a bedding fuchsia. I think that the fuchsia in our front garden isn't doing very well, so after taking some advice, I pruned it back hard and will give it a month to re-generate, if it doesn't I will take it out and replace it with another fuchsia, but it had to be the hardy sort. I saw some fuchsias in big pots in a local store this morning .... would they be the hardy variety? Thanks, cheers, chox.

[hellywelly4]

Hardy means they don’t get killed by frost in the winter. All fuchsias have names - Winston Churchill is a lovely hardy one. All the top growth dies off in the winter and then new shoots come up in April. It won’t be looking very good at the moment but will look lovely in the summer. The ones in hanging baskets aren’t usually the hardy ones and are usually discarded after they’ve finished flowering.

[hellywelly4]

It usually states on a fuchsia’s label whether it is hardy or not.

[chokkie]

Many thanks guys, perhaps I will check out websites for hardy varieties. But I will give the current one a chance for a few weeks and see what happens. Cheers for all your help, Chox.

[bhg481]

We have a few hardy fuschias which we cut back to virtually ground level at the end of the season - they are all shooting very nicely now (we are in the south of England).

[Prudie]

How long has it been in your front garden? My hardy fuchsias spend the whole winter as bare woody bushes and only came into leaf 3 or 4 weeks ago. Hope yours isn't like that and you chopped it back too early. Hopefully it will recover.

[Barmaid]

It may be a bit early yet. We've got about 50 fuschias. Some are flowering, some are only just putting shoots out and some are doing nothing.

[ladybirder]

My Hardy Fuchsia has flowered all winter, I haven't touched it. I don't know which one it is unfortunately.

[Canis_Lupus]

Like ladybirder my north facing front garden has several fuchsia's that have been in flower since March 2019 with no interruption, my late wife planted them some 14-16 years ago. I must admit that some years I don't even prune them, it would be such a waste of colour.

[tamborine]

Hardy fuschia in my garden - about 6ft tall & needs cutting back but c'est i la vie

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