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Beautiful Fuchsia Plant
A care guide for the fuchsia plant, known as a difficult flower to grow, is provided for you by gardening experts. The romantic, vibrant colored fuchsia plant has blossoms that dangle beautifully from pots, hanging baskets, or over the soil in a flower garden. If your not familiar with the fuchsia plant, let me teach you all you need to know about this beautiful plant. The fuchsia flower is a prolific bloomer all summer long and can be grown indoors with proper care. Learn how to grow and care for an interesting addition to your garden or home, the fuchsia plant.
Facts About the Fuchsia Plant
Fuchsia is named after Leonhard Fuchs, a German doctor who lived in the early 1500's. Almost all the fuchsia varieties we know of today come from South and Central America, New Zealand, and Tahit.
Originally, nearly 100 varieties were known, but they have been hybridized so much that today there are countless varieties.
Fuchsias are low growing, bush or sometimes tree-like plants. We still cultivate many varieties as indoor plants, and one of them is so hardy that it can winter in the open in the south. Most of the cultivated Fuchsia varieties are hybrids which may be low, rather droopy flowering plants, semi-tall trees or shrub-like plants. People often prop them up to allow the beautiful flowers to hang freely from the leaf crown that radiates from a slender stem.
Fuchsia is rich in color. The eye catching colorfulness of the flower is due to the fact that the sepals, leaf lobes and petals, are all richly colored. Fuchsias are the most beautiful when kept in rather cool conditions in half-shade. Too much warmth and sunshine leads to rapid flower loss and severe evaporation from leaves and stems. Always make sure that the plant gets the water it needs in the growth period. All varieties require special care, but they will reward all your efforts by forming lovely new flower buds on the tips of their stems. For more gardening tips online, visit Garden Pros.
Fuchsia Plant Buying Tips
Make sure all parts are fresh and juicy. Check for pests, and make sure that the stems of any flowers that may have bloomed are not flaccid.
Fuchsia Plant Guide
Fuchsias: Step by Step for Growing Success (Crowood Gardening Guides)
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Fuchsia (Hamlyn Care Manual)
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Hardy Fuchsias: Step by Step to Growing Success (Crowood Gardening Guides)
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A Guide to Growing Fabulous Fuchsias (Guide to Growing...)
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Garden Know How: Success with Fuchsias (Garden know-how)
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New Sensation Cape Fuchsia - Phygelius - Indoors or Out
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 12/23/2009)
A wonderful example of a cultivated Cape Fuchsia with dark purple-red tubular flowers that hang from all sides around the dark stems. This semi-evergreen sub-shrub has a sturdy, compact habit. Flowers on spring and again in late summer. Full sun in well-drained soil. Use of a protective mulch will improve hardiness. In the mixed border or in containers. Also makes a great house plant.
Fuchsia Plant Colors and Scents
The fuchsia plant's fragrance is weak, but the flowers come in almost every color shade except a true blue.
All fuchsia plants bloom from May through September.
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Fuchsia Christmas Cactus Plant
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 12/23/2009)
This fuchsia plant, Christmas cactus (Zygocactus) is native to the South American jungles. The flowers bloom once a year and come in shades of fuchsia, yellow, salmon, pink, white, orange, red and sometimes will even have a combination of the colors. The Christmas cacti are tropical plants. They require sunlight and the blooms last longer with cooler temperatures. Keep them away from heaters, fireplaces, radiators, furnace ducts, and other heat sources. Place in a sunny location while indoors and if outdoors during the summer, find a place that has a sun/shade mix to prevent the plant from getting burned. The
Pink Fuchsia Hanging Plant
Double Pink Fuchsia features beautiful multi-colored pendant blooms up to three inches long. The blossoming period begins in late winter and lasts through the summer. Three different fuchsia plants with blossoms in three shades are available to purchase. This is the Pink Double Fuchsia. Also available are the Purple Double Fuchsia and the Lavender Double Fuchsia. Purchase at:
How to Water and Feed Fuchsia Plants
Fuchsia is an easy plant to grow as long as they are given a light, cool spot and are kept shielded from the blazing sunshine.
Watering Cans for Your Fuchsia
Dramm 12391 7-Liter Premium High-Grade Plastic Swiss Watering Can
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OXO Good Grips Outdoor Pour & Store Watering Can 2.11-gallon. Green
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Dramm 12454 5-Liter Premium High-Grade Plastic Watering Can, Green
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Esschert Design Galvanized Watering Can - Ivy
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Liquid Plant Food for Fuchsia
Miracle-Gro 1750600 32-Ounce Pour and Feed Liquid Plant Food
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Miracle-Gro 1001501 32-Ounce All Purpose Liquid Plant Food
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Safer Brand 8703 Oxygen Plus Liquid Plant Food 30 Ounce Concentrate
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SPEEDY GROW RTU GAL
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Plant Food Gal.
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Books on Growing Fuchsias
Fuchsias: The New Cultivars
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The Hardy Fuchsia Guide
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Fuchsias: A Practical Step-By-Step Guide (Step By Step Guide)
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Fuchsias: A practical guide to cultivating fuchsias, with over 500 beautiful photographs and illustrations
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Fuchsias: The Complete Guide
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Fuchsia Lifespan, Size and Growth Rate
Fuchsia comes in almost every size and shape. Some of them can remain outdoors all year round, but most of them are cultivated as house plants or for re-planting outdoors in summer only.
Large Planters for Fuchsia
Large Rectangle Planter Box - 24" X 15" X 15"
Amazon Price: $120.00 (as of 12/23/2009)
Large Square Planter - 18" x 18" x 18"
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Smith & Hawken® Square Window Box Planter - Large
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Duratrel Model 11124 White Large Planter Box Fully Assembled
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Light and Temperature for Fuchsia Plants
How to Prune a Fuchsia Plant
Create a Small Fuchsia Tree
To Create a fuchsia plant with a tall stem, just remove all the side shoots and branches until the desired trunk height is achieved. The hanging varieties in particular are very attractive as tall stemmed plants or trees.
Now pinch back the crown by removing unwanted shoots throughout the summer (or, by winter pruning) to ensure the desired bush shape.
Tying may be necessary. Tying can prove as important as pruning. Many of these plants flower so profusely that the stems are almost overwhelmed. Pruning doesn't help in such cases, but a stick to support the plant in this period is often indispensable.
Pruning Shears for Fuchsia
Felco F-5 Classic Manual Pruning Shears
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Apollo Precision Tools 8-inch Nickel Plated Garden Pruning Shears With Soft Grip Handles #DT3701
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Fiskars Professional Pruning Shears #9124
Amazon Price: $14.50 (as of 12/22/2009)
Leatherman 830555 Hybrid Gardening Multitool with Nylon Sheath
Amazon Price: $40.28 (as of 12/22/2009)
Ames True Temper Pruning Solutions Steel Cast Anvil Pruner #2343430
Amazon Price: $15.93 (as of 12/22/2009)
Success Rate with Fuchsias
Rejuvinating Fuchsia
Fuchsia for the Garden
Hardy Red Fuchsia puts on an unbelievable display of red pendant flowers that act as beacons for hummingbirds from early summer to mid-fall. Extremely ornamental plants can grow up to six feet tall. Best of all, it's completely cold hardy. Hardy Red Fuchsia is evergreen in southern climates and deciduous in colder parts of the country. Rabbit resistant. Does well in full sun to partial shade. In zones 3, 4 and 5 it needs to be heavily mulched.
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No fussing with Artificial Fuchsia
TWO 46" Artificial Fuchsia Hanging Flower Bushes (Beauty)
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Do You Like Fuchsias?
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Nov 12, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
- Excellent lens! Me, though--I've had three fuscia plants but never had very good luck with them. I tried everything, but they just seemed to give up all of a sudden after months of looking just fine. They're one of the few houseplants I've not done well with, which was disappointing, because they are so pretty.
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- NSSBCSimpson NSSBCSimpson Oct 31, 2009 @ 2:13 am | in reply to lizabethjo
- hi i have the same question , i thought it almost resembled a fruit of some sort because the inside was slightly fleshy. can contact me at nssbsimpson@hotmail.com. thanx
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- ChineseKitesforKids ChineseKitesforKids Oct 10, 2009 @ 11:35 am
- This is an absolutely beautiful lens. Exquisite pictures, great content. Thanks for sharing. 5*****
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- Merne Asplund Merne Asplund Oct 9, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
- Hi. I have a chile fucshia (I hope thats what its called). The flowers look like a chile before they open. I live in minneapolis, and it is starting to get cold outside. Should I leave it out for the daytime and bring it in for the night? I brought it in last week and it lost all flowers and its starting to look unhealthy. It did VERY well outside, every couple days there were many new buds. Anyone know what to do? my email is willi828@gmail.com
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- lizabethjo lizabethjo Sep 13, 2009 @ 8:13 am
- I have a beautiful fushia and I noticed when the flower dropped, the green part at the top didnt drop, Well I left it there and now it is big and I would like to know if it is a seed?
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