FOR SOME, MOTHER’S DAY always has meant glorious hanging fuchsia baskets with flouncy pink and white skirts of ruffled ... perfect climate for cultivating hardy fuchsias as garden-worthy plants ...

Keep fuchsia slightly moist ... warmer ‘Checkerboard’: Single flower with red corollas and red to white sepals; hardy to USDA ...

Although most have red and purple flowers, ‘Hawkshead’ is covered in blossoms of pure white, while the blooms ... Finally, perhaps the showiest hardy fuchsia is ‘Double Otto’.

Hawkshead' is covered in blossoms of pure white, while the blooms of F ... Finally, perhaps the showiest hardy Fuchsia is ‘Double Otto'. The 2 inch wide, double flowers feature deeply flared ...

Planting Hardy Fuchsia You can kiss your big blooming fuchsia flowers and baskets goodbye. Our first fall frost will wipe them out. But they'll come back every year if you plant tougher varieties ...

Ten emails later, she finally got him to understand the concept of a hardy fuchsia. "It's confusing," says Detweiler. "People take it to mean they're easy to grow, unfussy, but don't think about ...

With bold, bell-shaped flowers in pink, purple, red and white, fuchsias are sure to add ... One of my favorite varieties is the hardy Fuchsia magellanica, with long, trumpet-like blooms that ...

The species magellanica has given us many hardy cultivars that make great garden plants. Fuchsia m. 'Alba' is a white with the faintest of pink tinge and is nearly as robust as the type.

Many a gardener is familiar with the fabulous Fuchsia 'Fanfare,' a vigorous climbing fuchsia that can reach 10 feet tall. But raise your hand if you know this variety's parentage? That would be F.

If you must, check out non-hardy varieties like ‘Rapunzel’, a trailing fuchsia with white and purple flowers, best suited to hanging baskets and window boxes, or for pots try ‘Dollar ...

That leads me to my problem. Can I prune back my hardy Fuchsia magellanica now to make it small again? I already see signs of new growth. -- S.S., Sumner MB: Prune away and make your shrubby ...