Fuchsia
Fuchsia 'Mrs Popple'
Common Name: Fuchsia
Genus: Fuchsia
Cultivar: 'Mrs Popple'
Category: Shrubs and Sub-shrubs
Height: 1.10 m (110 cm)
Spread: 1.10 m (110 cm)
Hardiness: Hardy
Growth Rate: Fast growing
Flowering Period: June to October
Long Flowering Period
Foliage Type: Deciduous
Foliage Colour: Green
Flower Colour: Purple, Red
Sun/Shade: Full sun or Partial shade
Soil Type: Normal/Loam
Soil Moisture: Moist, but well drained
Features: Long flowering period
Showy scarlet and purple flowers hang from arching stems from June to October among slender deep green leaves. This vigorous single-flowered fuchsia makes a lovely feature plant for a partially shady border. Bushy and upright in habit it performs best in fertile moist well-drained soil with protection from cold drying winds.
- Garden care: To encourage growth pinch out the growing tips of young plants after the sixth or seventh pair of leaves. During the growing season water regularly applying a balanced liquid fertiliser each month. Cut back to the permanent framework in early spring.
- Goes well with: Geranium 'Multibloom Pink', Geranium 'Multibloom Mixed', Nicotiana x sanderae 'Fragrant Cloud', Trachelospermum jasminoides, Cerinthe major 'Purpurescens', Hemerocallis 'Gentle Shepherd'.
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