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Hardy fuchsias: how to grow & best varieties
14.09.2023 - 12:13 / theenglishgarden.co.uk / Clare Foggett
Perfectly combining bright colour, dainty flower form and ease of growth, hardy fuchsias are the answer to many gardeners’ prayers. In bloom from midsummer to the first frost of autumn, this is a length of service unrivalled by any other shrub save, perhaps, roses.
Because of their responsiveness to both light and hard pruning in spring, hardy fuchsias have a multitude of garden uses. In mild areas, most keep their framework of branches and can be used as short hedges or mixed with other summer-flowering shrubs including Hypericum ‘Hidcote’, Leycesteria, Buddleia and Caryopteris. Smaller varieties can be treated as herbaceous plants and cut back in spring, mixed with plants that flower later in summer such as Agastache, Solidago and Helenium alongside other late-summer daisies.
In general, the hardiest varieties of fuchsia are forms of, or hybrids with, Fuchsia magellanica, which is native to Tierra del Fuego, one of the coolest and windiest parts of South America. Unsurprisingly, the plant finds conditions just to its liking on the western coasts of the British Isles. Wind and salt spray hold no fear but extreme cold can be a problem. That said, if the woody stems are cut to the ground by cold in winter, new shoots appear in spring from the woody rootstock.
All these plants have small, slender flowers with a prominent ovary – that often turns into a sweet, purple, edible berry – a colourful flower tube, four spreading sepals, usually in the same colour, and four petals that are most often in a contrasting colour.
Fuchsia magellanica is the classic hardy fuchsia, with a deep red tube and sepals, and deep purple petals. The flowers produce abundant nectar and the red colouration and tubular form are typical of flowers
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