Fuschias

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Fuschias
Topic Started: Sep 9 2014, 02:41 PM (207 Views)
Kahu	Sep 9 2014, 02:41 PM Post #1
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	Here's a few of the many fuschias that have done well over the winter period. Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image



Darcie	Sep 9 2014, 03:58 PM Post #2
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	They are so beautiful, wish I had a green thumb.



Bitsy	Sep 10 2014, 12:26 AM Post #3
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	Darcie Sep 9 2014, 03:58 PM They are so beautiful, wish I had a green thumb. Ditto that!



Durgan	Sep 10 2014, 01:37 AM Post #4
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	Fuschias are most beautiful. There is such a wide variety. They need shade and I don't have enough so have quit growing them.



erka	Sep 10 2014, 04:34 AM Post #5
Gold Star Member Posts: 5,330 Group: Member Member #233 Joined: February 8, 2006	KahU: they are beautiful. I noticed that they are in pots. Do you keep them in the greenhouse over winter? The only ones that over winter here are the magellanica and riccartonii varieties.



angora	Sep 10 2014, 05:10 AM Post #6
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	I have a pot on my front porch. I bought them by mistake and they don't fit with my other choices but isolated in their pot they have been a joy and bloomed exuberantly throughout the summer.



lilal	Sep 10 2014, 05:17 AM Post #7
Blue Star Member Posts: 1,545 Group: Member Member #206 Joined: February 2, 2006	Lovely! Like Durgan we have no shady spot for them so haven't grown any since moving to B.C.



Kahu	Sep 10 2014, 11:32 AM Post #8
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	Most garden fuchsias prefer gentle conditions with plenty of water, good drainage, no temperature extremes and protection from the hottest sun. Source Link Posted Image Tree Fuchsia - kotukutuku. A Kotuku is a white heron as depicted on the NZ$2 coin and the flower gets it's name from resembling the bird. Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image From the sublime to the ridiculous ... fuchsia procumbens, this one is a very low scrambler over rocky surfaces Edited by Kahu, Sep 10 2014, 11:38 AM.



Dana	Sep 10 2014, 03:21 PM Post #9
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	If you google fuchsia procumbens the images you get of the flowers are wonderful. I thought I was doing well to get a hardy fuchsia to grow to twelve feet in a sheltered spot, years ago. Long gone since -10C for two weeks killed it one winter. It had bark similar to what is in the photo above which is so much bigger than I ever knew a fuchsia could be. I wonder what the wood would be like to work with; what colour and texture etc. (Apple wood carves smoothly, like butter. Arbutus is brittle and is mostly checked. Broom is amazingly beautiful and used for button making. Yew makes terrific crokinole pieces. ) Anyone know about fuchsia wood?



Kahu	Sep 10 2014, 04:21 PM Post #10
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	Dana Sep 10 2014, 03:21 PM I thought I was doing well to get a hardy fuchsia to grow to twelve feet in a sheltered spot, years ago. Long gone since -10C for two weeks killed it one winter. It had bark similar to what is in the photo above which is so much bigger than I ever knew a fuchsia could be. I wonder what the wood would be like to work with; what colour and texture etc. (Apple wood carves smoothly, like butter. Arbutus is brittle and is mostly checked. Broom is amazingly beautiful and used for button making. Yew makes terrific crokinole pieces. ) Anyone know about fuchsia wood? The fuchsia timber is very soft, sappy and pithy ... it used to be known as the 'bucket of water tree' because it was so hard to burn, and so absolutely useless to boil the billy. We used to smoke the dry papery bark in pipes ... oooh 02 The timber rots very quickly on the bush floor too. There used to be an old man who lived over the back of when we were kids. He used to talk about crokinole quite a bit ... but we didn't understand what it was all about. We used to refer to him as being 'Old Croke' ... Dad reckoned he was a bit strange and we had to keep away from him.



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