On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:37:14 -0700, Persephone wrote:

This is So.Calif coastal.

I have let my sun fuschias get out of hand.

Lots of branches crossing; little "threads" from dead blooms, in
short, a mess.

Rather than get in there and fiddle with all this, which would take
forever, am wondering whether I could just cut back to a few trunks
and wait for plants to come back.

(I have done this repeatedly with a "regular" fuschia when it got too
long & droopy, and it always came back. But the configuration of this
fuschia is quite different from the tangled mess of the sun fuschias.)

Any experience/input on this?

Persephone



I've run over them with a lawn mower and dug them up, just leaving a
bit of root, and they came back. If they are in the ground, and
established, they are quite sturdy. I presume you are speaking of
real fuchsias which are sun tolerant. Need any 20 foot long cuttings?