This thread probably belongs in the Perennials Forum, but I suspect we Pacific Coasters are the only ones able to grow these plants successfully.
Unless you spend your whole day browsing around in the database, you probably don't know that Sue just uploaded about 700 delicious Fuchsia photos from the Earthworks site. Here's the "A" page. So pretty! (Edited to say that the "A" page was really impressive when I posted this and there were only a few hundred fuchsias in our database. Now there are thousands and thousands.)
http://garden.org/plants/brows...
Something to look at in winter.
I have a lot of shady spots in my garden and they're mostly full of violets. But how many violets does a garden really need? I'm planning to grow lots of upright Fuchsias in the shady parts of my garden from now on. I now have 51 Fuchsias and I'm getting more and more excited by them all the time.
We used to have a local nursery here that sold gorgeous hanging baskets of Fuchsias, but the nursery has since moved into a smaller space and probably won't carry them anymore, so I'll be buying the trailing Fuchsia starts from Earthworks and creating my own baskets. Please tell me, if you can, how many plants I should plant in each basket to achieve a nice full look. Will three be enough?
And because I know that threads with a thumbnail photo are more likely to be read, I'm adding a photo of Fuchsia 'Minnesota' to this thread.
