Hardy Fuchsia

Hardy fuchsia There is something particularly exquisite about the fuchsia, to me it is a sign of the summer. It is a spectacular plant which adds colour and attracts the bee’s and butterflies into the garden. There are lots of varieties of fuchsia to choose from and they can be grown as a shrub, a bush , as a hedgerow, or in pots and greenhouses. They also make an attractive hanging basket too. The flowers of the fuchsia looks like a tubular shaped flower which opens at the end into four spreading sepals and four overlapping petals which form a bell at the bottom of the bloom, this makes it such an attractive plant, as there are different ...

Fuchsias look like elegant, delicate ladies who might shudder and faint as soon as it gets cold, but they are much tougher than they look. They can survive cold winters, frosts, storms, and years of neglect. They come in many varieties of various degrees of winter-hardiness. Just how 'hardy' they are depends on the area where you live: In the southwest, in big cities, and in coastal areas frosts are rarer, and therefore more types of fuchsia survive the winter outdoors than in the countryside, in the mountains, inland, and in the north. A fuchsia can be a wonderfully easy plant to grow, or one requiring a lot of skill and knowledge. It ...

Hello my green-fingered friends. I'm here to do a bit of a Charlie Dimcock, or whatever she's called.. Yes, I've got the right credentials. Well a couple of them at least - as you can no doubt tell from the slight nip in the air this evening. Mind you I haven't always been a gardening expert - oh no. In fact, between you and me, my plants never used to live very long . Many wouldn't even wait to die but preferred just to commit suicide. But all of that has changed now, it's amazing the difference it makes when you leave off your bra. As I look across my estate I feel uplifted as I breath in deeply and take in the splendour and ...