Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Cold Hardy Fuchsias to Zone 6 (maybe zones 4-5), 1 by PedricksCorner

PedricksCorner wrote:
Since I have fallen in love with Billie Green, which is one of the Trihpylla varieties, it is one of those that I am going to try and grow indoors this winter in a sunny southern facing window. It doesn't get as cold here as where you live. But I do fear losing some of my varieties to a sudden freeze. I am going to choose little ones of as many varieties as I can, so we can see how they all do.
One of the factors affecting a fuchsias ability to recover from freezing temps, it that they all have such different growth rates. The faster growing ones seem to be able to recover better.
I have witnessed Gartenmeister frozen to ground level and apparently gone, burst back up from underneath the ground and then grow like crazy. A friend of mine lives in a zone where it snows and he was certain his was gone, until I showed him the new little shoots poking out of the leaf litter that protected the base core of the plant during the winter.
I like the colors on Billie Green, not quite so orange.