Fuchsias are a great addition to small gardens, and they’re a fantastic choice of balcony gardens that rely on vertical growing systems in a limited space. Some fuchsias are climbers, making them the ideal choice for compact spaces. The best defense is keeping it from getting started in the first place. Remove all garden debris around the fuchsia plant. Sterilize your gardening tools after pruning. Keep your plant as healthy as possible to avoid catching this in the first place. A high potash liquid plant food applied regularly throughout summer will encourage better blooms over a long flowering period until the first autumn frosts.

Dig a good sized planting hole big enough to easily fit the rootball. Add a layer of organic matter such as compost or planting compost to the base of the hole and fork it in.Gardeners can feed hardy varieties every spring, and again in the summertime towards the end of the season. Fuchsia Cultivation There are literally hundreds of varieties of fuchsias in a wealth of different colours and colour combinations. Most produce relatively small flowers, whereas the ’Turbo’ varieties produce quite large flowers. With the increasing numbers of differing species in England plant breeders began to immediately develop hybrids to develop more desirable garden plants. The first recorded experiments date to 1825 as F. arborescens Χ F. macrostemma and F. arborescens X F. coccinea where the quality of the resultant plants was unrecorded.

Between 1835 and 1850 there was a tremendous influx to England of both hybrids and varieties, the majority of which have been lost. A standard is a method of training a plant in to a small tree or lollipop shape, with a clear stem/trunk and a bush of leaves and flowers at the top. Here are some options to grow, depending on how tough and hardy you need the fuchsias to be in your garden.Plant fuchsias in areas of the garden that get sunlight, with partial shade in the afternoon, and provide them with a windbreak. Soil Given I grow fuchsia for the berries and the floral display, I like to grow them in my food forest or with other food plants. Try: