Is boredom striking your garden world this month? For me, hardy fuchsias save the season. There’s no slipping into utter weariness if you’ve got pops of color and form from these bountiful ...

Now they're selling about 350 varieties of hardy fuchsias and 150 tender varieties - more than 50,000 a year - at their retail center, online, to growers and garden centers and three Winco stores ...

In my old farmhouse garden, hardy fuchsias had been planted at each corner of the house 40 or 50 years before my time. After decades of neglect, they were still growing strongly, often blooming ...

Here are some tips for growing fuchsia plants in your garden and in containers. Fuchsia Varieties Fuchsia is named after Leonard Fuchs, a German doctor who lived in the early 1500’s.

Hardy fuchsia: hummingbird The hardy fuchsia is adapted for hummingbird pollination in a variety of ways. ... hence their bright yellow petals and abundant pollen and nectar supplies.

For extra cold tolerance, plant your hardy Fuchsia 4 inches deeper than it comes out of the pot. Avoid a baking hot spot, but they need sufficient sunshine to bloom well. All Fuchsias are big eaters.

The sturdy, 2-by-2-foot plant blooms from mid-summer to mid-fall. There are other perennials, such as hardy fuchsia, Geranium 'Rozanne' and some of the more profuse echinacea, that flower that ...

Ciscoe also has a shade loving hardy fuchsia called 'smoky blue.' "That one really doesn't like being in sun, bright shade is its favorite. Maybe a little morning sun but that's it.

FUCHSIAS have done well this year. Even the less hardy ones are still managing to produce a few flowers, and will only be set back with the arrival of frosts and lower temperatures than we have ...