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Can someone remind me please? I have a dozen fuchsias grown this year from
almost nothing at all, but now very healthy plants with an abundance of
flowers. I have had a wide selection of advice from - Water/don't water.
Prune/don't prune. Keep outside/store under glass. My last over-wintering
method was not too successful. I pruned hard in October, wintered under
glass and gave no water. I ignored feeding. Result - a few weary shoots in
the following spring.
What is suggested for this year.



If staying in the ground, don't prune / cut back until next spring, mulch
before first frost or cover the root stocks more deeply, idea is to keep
the frost off the root system. feed once shoot growth is strongly away
but do not be in too much of a rush. Not all Fuchsia are as hardy as each
other and some like Thalia are very difficult to over winter in the
ground while others that you would expect to be very tender like F
boliviana come up fine in spring.

If bringing in lift in Autumn cut hard back and pot up stumps (roots
can be trimed to fit and put under a bench in the greenhouse or similar
keep just moist, harden off with care in spring and eventual plant out
once you feel spring really has arrived!
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea