bubba1 and anyone else interested: I have started a new thread that addresses planting cold hardy fuchsias in zone 6, maybe even zone 4 or 5. All the information I have discovered in my research is posted there.
Here's the link:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1048634/
Show us your hardy fuschias in the ground.
Here's some blue fuchsias, but none of these are hardy to zone 6. They would have to be grown as annuals in any zone colder than an 8 or 9, I would suspect.
F. Pat Rogers
SemiDouble 12"-18" white flushed pink sepals with pale lavendar-blue corolla
F. Blue Eyes
Double 12"-18" pale pink sepals with pale blue corolla
F. Carmel Blue
Single 12"-18" white sepals with blue corolla
F. Dulcie Elizabeth
Double 18"-48" neyron rose sepals with powder blue corolla
F. Foxgrove Wood
Single 18"-48" pink sepals with blue corolla
F. Little Ronnie
SemiDouble 12"-18" rosy-crimson sepals with dark blue, ageing to mauvish-blue corolla
F. Yonder Blue
Double 12"-18" rose-red sepals with deep blue corolla
You can view pictures here:
http://www.monnierscountrygardens.com/
in their Photo Pages
Plants with the code "HWP" means hardy with protection, but that isn't for zone 6. When I see that it usually means zone 8 or warmer.
I am working on a small database I've been talking about in the Name That Fuchsia thread, which will enable us to search for a paricular fuchsia variety by a number of criteria. For instance, you could ask for all cold hardy fuchsias, that get up to 3 feet tall, have white sepals, and blue corollas, and have semi-double blossoms, etc. I am even trying to list the source of a photo with DavesGarden taking first place if a photo of the variety is here. (We need to fill in those blanks people!!)
As soon as I have a chance to get at least half way through the alphabet, I will post it to a website just for it and it alone. I have been trying to think of a name for it.
But! I only collect upright fuchsias.........so that is the only data I am concerned with.
There are a few websites out there that seperate their photos into color categories, but the number of varieties in each is very limited.
The Northwest Fuchsia Society has the best collection of photos I've seen so far.
FindThatFuchsia has the most complete list, but it you can't sort it or search it.
bubba1, I have family in Oklahoma! They keep trying to convince me to move there :-)
I LOVE Oklahoma! I love the way the seasons change here! I love the grass and the trees! The SPACE!!! I visited my sister in Amarillo one time. Just once. I can't understand why anyone would live there. When we came home, you could literally tell when you hit the Oklahoma border because the landscape went from dirt to green grass and trees! Have you ever visited your relatives in Oklahoma? You should!
You are tempting me! And I don't mind snow in the winter. I have family in Warr Acres and Ada. Plus, my family in Nebraska and Texas would be happy if I moved out there. Convince me I can grow fuchsias out there, and I'll be on my way!
Have been otherwise occupied and DG has been somewhat neglected.
These pics were taken Oct 12 of Double Otto, which has been in the ground about 3 years. I am disappointed that it is so late for me this year, but much of my yard is large fir trees so I don't get full sun.
Double Otto close up. I love the size and colors of this fuchsia.
PNWMountainGirl, I have the same conditions, I try to move those late bloomers to the edge of the trees where they can get more sun, but don't always have enough room for all the sun lovers, I just have to enjoy the late bloomers when they show up when the others are done. Jim
Looks like a healthy vigorous bush! I have never seen Double Otto in person, but yours looks beautiful. Nice close-up! I bet he keeps blooming until it really gets cold there. Does he?
Hello everyone! Let's see some photos! Here it is the first day of November and I know you have beautiful fuchsias blooming gloriously right now. Show them off!!!
Wow, those are great photos GGK! Nice close-ups.
I hope to be able to get back to work on that database soon. I just finished fertilizing everything with a syphon feeder. The weather here got into the 80's today and everything is in bloom. The fuchsias seem to love the combination of shorter but sunny days and cool nights. I have a few varieties I am hoping to see bloom for the first time before it gets too cold. Like Astoria and Corpus Christie.
And I am really hoping one that had to endure repeated beatings from my two kittens, will also bloom. It is called Sister Sister. I have three sisters and I like the name so much I bought two little starts and put them into a large container. For some reason, Marion and Gary, out of all the containers, kept playing in this one :-(
Of course, it was a mistake to put them into a large container in the first place. I knew better!! They are probably hard at work filling it with roots and will burst out with tons of growth any minute now, ha, ha!
Your Pink Fantasia has a very interesting corolla. And I like the really dark corolla on Maxima. Have you heard that the Earthworks aka Fuchsia Lady, is shipping now? Yes, she is! I need to look and see if she has these varieties.
GREAT PICTURES. LOVE THE 'FLASH'
Great pictures!! I've just planted and transplanted seven new hardy fuchsias in my front border this fall.............this whole fuchsia forum has make me crazed for these beautiful plants.........I'm ready for next year!! ( Well, maybe just a few more!!)
Azorina, where are you buying hardy fuchsia in this area? at this time? what prices? Jim
Actually I went with PNW Mountain girl to visit some friends in September in Oregon and went to a fuchsia nursery there that was closing. (just what you wanted to hear I bet) Also, years ago I planted several fuchsias in too shady an area and just moved them into the sun.
I'm making a list and it will be in first place.
GGK: I'll bet all your pretty ballerinas were dancing the happy dance to see you home again. It was your great pictures that prompted me to place a second order with Earthworks, especially when I found a near match to Neon Tricolor. I'm wondering if the Fuchsia Forum is a good thing or a bad thing for me. The more I learn about the plants, the more I want!
I took this photo yesterday of my Blue Eyes again. Now there is Amber Rose to the front right and San Leandro to the front left. Amber Rose isn't going to get very tall. It is one of the ones I think would make a good bonsai with a very interesting trunk. This San Leandro is young. It is going to be a large bush and would not make a good bonsai. I like the color contrast of it with the Blue Eyes.
GGK, I just saw the photos of Margaret you posted to the Plant Files and she is gorgeous! Hmmm. I am working on that list! And the list of ones I want is getting longer. My new thing is to make sure all the upright fuchsias from the Earthworks is on the list. Margaret reminds me of Hayward. I like it when the sepals go back like that.
PC and the rest of all you enabelers, I'm really falling for all these beautiful Fuchsia cultivars, although I doubt if I could possibly collect as many as my Hostas. well it's no use worrying about it, I guess I'm strapped in and going for the ride, thanks all, Jim
LOL, Hostajim! It's only the beginning for your new must have in the garden...
PC, What a beautiful display of your Fuchsias! I'm envious...
I'm really enjoying Margaret too! I got this one without seeing the blooms back in September. I was sold on this cultivar simply because they said it's VERY hardy and is vigorous with it's growth habits. Well, I planted it back in late Sept. when the soil is still warm and the roots can establish itself. I wish I would have taken photos of when I planted it and photos now. It really has taken off. I'm impressed and believe I will need to move it now to a different location next year.
Glad you enjoyed the photos...
Well you know Jim, there are enough fuchsia cultivars for you to find a match for each and every one of your hostas LOL!!!
I have decided to try and narrow my criteria a bit further. Besides the ones I've already put on my wish list, any new upright that catches my eye, must also be an old fashioned one. Preferably pre 1900.
Hostajim- could this be a call for a support group?
Linda, maybe I could find a fuchsia expert to talk at our neighborhood NPA garden group. there must be someone locally in our region, Jim
hostajim1
I thought there was a lady in that group that was a member of the fuchsia society.
Here is a pic. of my HOPEFULLY hardy fuchsias in the ground taken this evening! Several other areas look the same only a bit more colorful with sheets and blankets. Oak leaves are under that beautiful covering and hopefully they will survive!!!
It's soooo cold for the next 3 days down into the teens at night...Wish em Good Luck
:)
I am keeping my fingers crossed for you GGK! They look very well tucked in!
It snowed on the hills down the road last night and it is going to freeze here tonight. It is only 8pm and it is already down to 36 degrees.
So although I covered as much as I could last night and didn't peak under the covers today, I went out and bought more of the plastic cloth I also use for covering cuttings while they root, and covered even more.
Here is a photo of Billie Green, with the cloth covering four rows of the new members of my collection that I bought as 2" starts this spring and summer. The big guys like Billie Green have got to tough it out. If they can't make it, then I can't grow them.
Here is Voodoo this afternoon.
By the way, Voodoo grew roots down out of that little pot long ago! There is no way a bush that size could survive in such a small pot ;-)
This is my Trisha today. I am going to be very, very upset if I lose this one to the weather. But just in case, there a few rooted cuttings from everyone in the minigreenhouse.
Keeping my fingers crossed for you also, PC! I figured you would also be getting some of this cold spell down your way. Wonderful display of blooms you still have there!! I really love Voodoo not only it's color but the blooms just seem to show action and movement.
Well, as I type this the temp. is 17 degrees and still have several more days of this Cold weather! I won't know till April how the little ones (Fuchsias) made it or not...sure wish we would have had a good layer of snow before this Cold front came in!
PC
When is the latest you can get a killer frost in your area? Here where I live we can get one up till the first week of May. Hope that won't be the case next year for us.
Everyone looks okay this morning except the F. boliviana's... :-(
They are burned. I should have covered those two. But I will tonight and hope for the best. They are big vigorous bushes now in 15 gallons containers, so I am hopeful. And I am going to pack more mulch around their trunks.
It is very unusual for it to freeze here after March. I actually start making cuttings again in Febuary.
Billie Green, Trisha, and Voodoo look like nothing happened at all!
You should see the trunk on that Voodoo GGK. I actually have to cut several feet off of the bush every year just to keep it from getting in my way. Because it is on a corner between my two main pathways. I always feel horrible, but it has to be done. It has made me wonder though, how big a Voodoo could get if it was allowed to grow free. So I planted a row along the farthest fence this summer. We will see! They are parallel with a row of F. magellanica molinae I planted to train as a hedge.
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for your bushes. I wonder if any of your local retail nurseries carry the same kind of plastic breathable cloth I use? I have it folded double over the little ones. It lets the light in very well.
My two in pots outside came through last night okay, but tonight it's supposed to get down to 28 degrees. Am going to cover them with a sheet tonight, it's not supposed to get that cold here!
Best of luck with yours, PC & GGK, and all!
All the ones in the gh are okay, even though it went down to 40 degrees in there last night. Tonight will be colder.
Photo of outside Lycoides. Old sheet is ready to cover.
WIB,
SW
