I really don't know which ones they are, as they don't tell us much here where I got them. She had 3 kinds, or rather, 3 different names. Dark Eyes, Swingtime, and I dont remember the third. I had them all in seperate pots, but over the winter, some of them did not make it, and DH repotted them into 2 pots, and didn't keep them seperate, so I don't know what lived and didn't, until they bloom. LOL! Frankly, I really didn't expect any to live, as I haven't ever been able to keep them alive inside, especially for that long. Last fall, our first hard freeze was in August!! Way too early. And we are still having freezes now.
When/How are you most successful at propigating fuchsias?
Willowwind2, I still haven't identified one of the fuchsias you sent me! I don't think it is one of the magellanicas, because the leaves are so small. But it also isn't one of the Encliandra's! Here are a couple of recent photos in the hope that someone out there can tell me it's real name. For now, it is still "Willowwind2!"
I tried to focus on the ball shape of the red flower buds before they open. So nice and round, not like a magellanica at all.
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And another shot with more foliage.
That's looking good. Happy it did well for you. Mine has made a full recovery from its winter disaster.
Very nice! I am going to send a photo to the American Fuchsia Society to see if they can id it for us ;-D
Willowwind2, I think your photo is of your F. magellanica and it certainly looks like it recovered very well! The other fuchsia has much smaller and thinner leaves. How is that one doing?
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I'm wondering if it possibly could be 'Vielliebechen'
Tube and sepals red. Corolla purple.
Single Upright HWP
Garden or Container
Vielliebechen
(18"-4 ft) Common Hybrid
http://www.nwfuchsiasociety.com/hardies/hardies_v-y.htm
Willow and Pedrick
Your Fuchsias are looking fantastic! My poor fuchsias have sunburn spots on many of the buds from the heat spell we had. Here is a close up of Vielliebechen taken back in June first blooms to open of the year.
Beautiful little fuchsia GGK, and the fruiting portion of the blossom is distinctive in it's early purple pigmentation instead of the normal red or green. Willowwind2's doesn't have that. And the unopened flower buds on hers are so very round. It has a very definate upward growth pattern with tiny little leaves. As small as the Encliandra's but not shaped like them at all.
We had a bit of a heat wave up here also! And some of the newer additions to my collection got sunburned on their leaves and buds also, as they had been grown in a shadier location and hadn't adapted yet.
But we know they'll recover and produce plenty of new blossoms!
It is going to be hot again here today, I'd better get outside and water!
Both of my other ones are doing fine. The mini one isn't blooming yet but has healthy foliage and growth. The paler leafed one is finally growing and the deer topped it yesterday. No blooms on it either.
I wrote to Salli Dahl of the Northwest Fuchsia Society and she thinks the fuchsia in question could be F. campos-portoi or a hybrid derived from it. And I think she is right.
I went to the website for the Fuchsia Research Institute and the photo they have for F. campos-portoi comes closer than anything else I've seen. She is going to verify this for me and let me know.
I should check to make sure there is a link to that institute in the sticky's!
Willowwind2, I heard back from Salli of the Northwest Fuchsia Society. She and I would really appreciate it if you could get a photo of the parent plant you have growing in your yard from which you sent the cuttings to me. Here is another photo of it. We are wondering how tall it gets. She said that F. campos-portoi hybridizes freely and has practically become a pest in some areas of northern California. I had to laugh at that! Imagining an invasive form of fuchsia never occurred to me! True F. campos-portoi has a bit thinner (as in width) than yours does. But it is certainly close!
That doesn't look like anything I have growing. The condition the plant I sent is in, is not good enough for a photo. Is it possible you are working with one I didn't send to you. I don't recall those little round buds but they sure are cute.
Yup, you sent me three kinds of cuttings. One was F. magellanica, one was F. microphylla, and this was the third one. I have it growing out in the full sun and it is heading straight for the sky even faster and straighter than the F. magellanica I have right next to it. So I hope yours improves enough for a photo soon!
I have mine planted in almost full shade. I worked in the bed the other day and made it deer proof. I will move it to a sunnier spot in the fall. It has put up several new starts.
I heard from the Northwest Fuchsia Society today and Salli Dahl confirmed it is a F. campos-portoi hybrid. I am very happy to hear that. I think it is one cool fuchsia! And I'll be looking forward to seeing the parent plant here someday.
Thanks for all your work on that. I'll get a picture ASAP.
Willow, is that the hardy fuchsia that you shared when we visited your home earlier this year? If so, I have a nice healthy start of it too.
No this was another one that was on the golf course side. When I was pruning the one I shared with you, I stuck a few pieces into the ground again, in May I think, and they all grew and are blooming. Six to twelve inches tall. That one is so easy to root.
I think the hummingbirds are going to crazy over this one if it gets as tall as my magellanicas and lycioides. It has so many red flowers, I can't wait to see. I need a good video camera so I can take some footage of the territorial battles that go on in the evening when they are competing over who gets the last sip from the lycioides and it's masses of little red flowers. I've even begun another hedge with the lycioides this time instead of the magellanica molinae. This time I am going to espalier along the chain link fence on the hillside.
Espalier should be beautiful. Shouldn't have to wait to long for it to be all filled in, the speed it grows.
GGKin, I just finished laying down a 30 foot brick walkway to prevent myself from falling on the slippery clay slope after the rains. Finally! Even the cats really like it :-)
When I stood at the top of the slope to view my work, I realized there stood Flash at the bottom next to my new shade room for making cuttings and transplanting seedlings. And I realized I should post a photo here of what has become of those wilted cuttings that arrived here in September of 2009 that I posted photos of in this thread.
My photography skills are still waiting for a better camera, ha, ha. But I hope you can see the big fuchsia at the end of the walk way. That is Flash in a 15 gallon pot! In bloom, but you can't see them well in this photo. He is almost to the top of the fence! A recent storm threatoned to knock some of the branches off, so I had just tied him up a bit. I considered moving him so the brick path would continue straight to my new work room, but then decided I like him there so much, the path can go around him!
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