Fuchsia Riccartonii
I would not like to be without Fuchsia Riccartonii, it is a real star in my garden.
This fuschia is an extremely hardy, upright shrub bearing dark green leaves with a slight bronze sheen and makes a very impressive flowering shrub with a prolific show of small flowers with a dark purple skirt beneath the crimson wings on its mass of twiggy growth. It will tolerate full sun or partial shade.
It can be grown to the back of a large border or be used as an informal summer hedge or divide.
Though it is fully hardy, the top growth may well get killed off by sharp spring frosts, but new growth quickly shoots up from the base. In early spring remove frost damaged stems. Cut back healthy growth to the lowest buds.
I stopped cutting it back and it is best described as a small tree which is fine for the space I have allocated it. If you have limited space follow the suggested regime of pruning it back each spring.
The Royal Horticultural Society Woody Plant Committee awarded Fuchsia Riccartonii an Award of Garden Merit and described it:
"Upright medium-sized deciduous shrub with small ovate leaves. Flowers small, with crimson tube and sepals, petals violet-purple."
Fuchsias are susceptible to whitefly, vine weevil, capsid bugs, aphids, red spider mite, grey mould (Botrytis) and rust.
Root softwood cuttings in spring or semi-ripe cuttings in late summer, July to September, with bottom heat.
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