Name: Tina Where the desert meets the sea (Zone 9b)
This forum came to being just in the nick of time! I have *burning* questions
I noticed something a few days ago that surprised me, though perhaps it shouldn't have. I took all of my upright and semi-upright fuchsias from my porch pot area and put them into my new shaded garden with some of my daylilies and sea thrift. They wintered superbly, and are now leafing out and starting to bloom. One of them, to my surprise, had a shoot that rooted itself in the ground and not only established that branch as a new plant, but had an underground shoot that burrowed out and away forming another cane.
I had already planned to try migrating one variety back to a shaded spot in my furnace-blast garden, so we transplanted that shoot there. I really don't want the fuchsia to encroach on the daylilies, though. Will I need to keep an eye on all the planted fuchsia or is this possibly just the habit of a particular semi-upright?
I did also take some cuttings from my hanging plants that luxuriated over the winter in my tiny porch greenhouse. I have never been successful with starting cuttings except in the early spring when the stems are still red and they seem to just take off as long as one stripped leaf-node gets put into moist soil.
And, is the plural Fuchsia or Fuchsias?!
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of old; seek what those of old sought. — Basho
