My Fuchsias

[Orchidementia]

Here are my blooming fuchsias. The big pink one is over 9 years old.

[patticake]

Beautiful! There are fuscias around here, but sold as an annual hanging plant. It's too hard to keep them over the winter inside. Yours are so pretty! It sure pays to live where you do.

[Orchidementia]

Bringing them inside is usually the quickest way to kill them, in my experience. The ricatorii (Big Pink, as I call it) is a hardy fuchsia and withstand cold, so here, it usually blooms year round. I let it go dormant last fall since we were moving, and it's ENORMOUS even when its sleeping!

[patticake]

Originally Posted by Orchidementia

Bringing them inside is usually the quickest way to kill them, in my experience. The ricatorii (Big Pink, as I call it) is a hardy fuchsia and withstand cold, so here, it usually blooms year round. I let it go dormant last fall since we were moving, and it's ENORMOUS even when its sleeping!

I know they don't like being inside, but with winters going to twenty below zero, (farenheit) outside isn't an option here, either. That's why they're pretty much disposable around here.

[Orchidementia]

That's I couldn't grow them in the Midwest - much too hot and much too cold. They're often sold as houseplants - as a joke, I suspect!

[Hummer344]

I use to have them but the fuchsia mites got them. I didn't plant them for a few years then tried them again. Same problem. I don't like to use poisons and know of no organic that will kill them so gave up. Now I grow hanging begonias.

Orchid: do you have mites & if so, how do you deal with them?

[sandra]

I love fuschias but can't grow them here...way too hot. Every spring, the big box stores will get them in and every year, I'm tempted until I recall how many I lost since living out here.

So for now, I get to drool over pics like yours and will keep them on my wish list for someday.

Your plants are gorgeous! Thanks for these pics!

[Orchidementia]

Originally Posted by Hummer344

I use to have them but the fuchsia mites got them. I didn't plant them for a few years then tried them again. Same problem. I don't like to use poisons and know of no organic that will kill them so gave up. Now I grow hanging begonias.

Orchid: do you have mites & if so, how do you deal with them?

I just get aphids every now and then, and make insecticidal soap (alcohol, dish soap and water). As I said, the big pink one is nearly a decade old and has more addresses than I have (it's potted; they all are) and knock wood, is doing fine!

[Orchidementia]

Some better pictures of the double pink/purple and white

[solay]

I love those. They are very pretty. Use to have a huge bush in the back yard of the house I grew up in (Daly City). Anyhow, I don't see too many around here. I wonder why? Maybe too hot in the summers.