A Feature on Fuchsias
Hardy Fuchsias thrive through mild summers and wet winters making them well adaptable to our climate. This garden's formal geometric style highlights the long growing time of fuchsias and showcases many unique cultivars from shade to sun loving variants. Small trees create the partial shade that some fuchsias need, and Boxwood and Pyramidal Taxus create winter interest when the frost has set in.
Fuchsias continue to flower well into fall until the first frost giving this garden a long blooming time. During milder winters, some of them continue to bloom and don't drop their leaves. On exceptionally cold winters, fuchsias die to the ground. When pruning in spring after hard frosts have ended, prune dead twigs or to the ground if winter entirely knocked it back.
When in bloom, fuchsias are hummingbird magnets and deer resistant for most local gardeners. Their resilience, bloom season, and deer resistance makes them popular plants. Some of the cultivars grown here are propagated and sold at our plant sales.
