Hardy Fuchsia Collection
- Fuchsias are a beautiful and elegant must-have for any garden.
- Flowering from June, they come alive with explosions of pinks, purples, reds, and whites.
- Perfect in pots, borders & containers, they provide your garden with summer long colour.
- Six of the best hardy shrubs, they will come back with bigger and better displays each year.
- Supplied as a collection of 12 plugs, ready to pot on or plant out.
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- Fuchsias are a beautiful and elegant must-have for any garden.
- Flowering from June, they come alive with explosions of pinks, purples, reds, and whites.
- Perfect in pots, borders & containers, they provide your garden with summer long colour.
- Six of the best hardy shrubs, they will come back with bigger and better displays each year.
- Supplied as a collection of 12 plugs, ready to pot on or plant out.
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Elegant and beautiful, fuchsias are a must-have for any gardener. This wonderful collection of some of the best hardy shrub varieties gives you six of the best from the wide range of colours they produce.
Perfect for borders, pots & containers, they will provide structure and colour all summer long. These very hardy, reliable garden performers will thrive in almost any situation, coming back with bigger and better displays each year, and in such a range of flower colours, flower shapes and habits.
The beautiful foliage provides gorgeous shades of green from a bright lime to a glossy dark green and even cream tipped leaves. Flowering as early as June, they will come alive with an explosion of pinks, purples, reds, whites even blues with the spectacular flowers hanging proudly from their stems.
In this Hardy Fuchsia collection, you will receive:
- 2 Fuchsia 'Display' plugs - Bushy green foliage and all pink flowers.
- 2 Fuchsia 'Snowcap' plugs - Two-tone white and scarlet-pink flowers.
- 2 Fuchsia 'Alice Hoffman' plugs - White and pink blooms surrounded by gorgeous green foliage.
- 2 Fuchsia 'Delta's Sarah' plugs - Spectacular display of white outer and purple flowers.
- 2 Fuchsia 'Tom Thumb' plugs - Beautiful red and mauve petals on this bushy shrub.
- 2 Fuchsia 'Dollar Princess' plugs - Red outers with gorgeous double purple inner petals.
Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to pot and plant out.
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Plant Care Information
Top Tips
- Apply a deep bark mulch around the base of hardy fuchsias in autumn to protect the roots from winter cold.
- Deadhead faded fuchsia flowers to encourage more blooms to be produced.
Care Information
Planting Advice for fuchsias:
- Unpack plugs immediately and stand them in water for an hour.
- If you can’t do this, they can sit in their mini greenhouse for a week if upright and not too wet.
- Plugs may be slightly dry or yellow after being in a dark box in the post, but they’ll quickly recover.
- Put them somewhere warm, light and airy such as a windowsill or greenhouse.
- When potting on, handle plugs carefully. Pot on using our 9cm pots in Shuttle Trays, using good multi-purpose compost.
- Give your plants a good water initially, then only when the top compost starts to dry. They don’t like to be left in standing water.
- When established, plant approx. 20cm (8in) apart to allow them room to grow - remember to protect tender plants from late frosts.
- Feed using a high-potash feed such as Blooming Fast Superior Soluble Fertiliser for Flowers & Fruits, to encourage flowering.
- Dead head when flowers fade to encourage more flowers.
- Remember that plants are frost tender and should be protected from frost at all times
Aftercare Advice for fuchsias:
- When all risk of frost has passed, gradually acclimatise your plant to outdoor conditions over a 7 to 10-day period, before planting into its final positions in patio containers and sunny or semi shaded borders.
- Grow in fertile, moist but well-drained soil, with shelter from the wind. In containers, use a John Innes No 3 based compost.
- When planting in the ground, plant the base of the stem 5cm below the soil surface and provide a deep winter mulch and shelter from the wind.
- Water fuchsia plants sufficiently to keep the compost moist but not waterlogged and do not leave plants standing in water.
- Fuchsias prefer shade for the hottest part of the day.
- A balanced, liquid fertiliser used in summer encourages better blooms over a long flowering period
Pruning Advice for hardy fuchsias:
- When in active growth, you can pinch out tips to increase the potential number of blooms, although this will delay actual flowering - flowers usually open six to eight weeks after you finish stopping.
- Prune stems back to a low permanent framework in spring.
Planting/Flowering Calendar
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