Complete Hardy Fuchsia Collection
- Elegant and beautiful, fuchsias are a must-have for any gardener
- Flowering as early as June, they'll come alive with an explosion of pink, purples, reds and whites
- Perfect for borders, pots & containers, they will provide structure and colour all summer long
- Six of the best hardy shrub varieties they come back with bigger and better displays each year
- 12 x plug plants ready to pot on or plant out
Product Description
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.
The beautiful foliage ranges from lime to dark green, even cream tipped leaves. Flowering as early as June, they'll come alive with an explosion of pink, purples, reds, whites even blue the spectacular flowers hanging daintily from their stems.
Perfect for borders, pots & containers, they will provide structure and colour all summer long. These very hardy, reliable garden performers will thrive in your garden, coming back with bigger and better displays each year, and in such a range of flower colours, flower shapes and habits.
You will get our selection of 12 x named varieites of plug plant, ready to pot on or plant straight out. Two each* of:
- Shrimp Cocktail - Hot pink flowers
- Beacon - Dark pink outer and mauve inner petals
- Genii - Golden leaves with red and purple flowers
- Deltas Sarah - White outer and blue-purple inner petals
- Tom Thumb - Red outer and purple inner petals
- Dollar Princess - Red outer with double purple inner petals
*Please note that varieties may be substituted due to seasonal availability.
What Is Supplied
Plant 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 Guide
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.
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