Complete Hardy Fuchsia Collection

A summer garden isn’t complete without fuchsias and this collection will make a stunning addition to your baskets, pots, and containers. A must have, this collection will fill your pots and hanging baskets with the fascinating blooms and gorgeous colours of ‘Shrimp cocktail’, ‘Beacon’, ‘Genii’, ‘Deltas Sarah’, ‘Tom Thumb’ and ‘Dollar Princess’. In bloom from May all the way through to the first frosts in autumn and they will thrive when planting in full sun to partial shade.

• Fuchsia ‘Shrimp Cocktail’ – Bright hot pink flowers.
• Fuchsia ‘Beacon’ – Dark pink sepals and mauve corolla petals.
• Fuchsia ‘Genii’ – Golden leaves with red and purple blooms.
• Fuchsia ‘Deltas Sarah’ – White sepals and blue-purple corolla petals.
• Fuchsia ‘Tom Thumb’ – Purple inner petals surrounded by red sepals.
• Fuchsia ‘Dollar Princess’ – Red outer sepals with double purple inner petals

Delivered as a pack of 12 plug plants, 2 of each variety, ready to grow on before planting out.

*Please note: Some varieties may be substituted due to seasonal availability.

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.