Can fuschia's survive Texas?
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Comments (6)Mine grew into hug mounds back in N.O. but in Ms. z8 they grew but not nearly as well. I think they don't care for too much cold. A mild 9 seems perfect. In N.O. I had mine under a sweet gum tree which meant deep shade with late evening sun at best in the summer and f/s in winter. I also had 'em in full sun year round. It didn't matter as all grew well. In Ms. the winter takes mine back to the ground. Mike...See MoreCan an artificial, in-ground bog survive Texas summers?
Comments (5)Hi Bugman, With money, time, and tools no object, here is a solution. Dig out a pond about 16 inches deep, use either a plastic rigid preformed pond kit or a plastic fabric liner. Fill with either long fiber sphagnum moss, or half sphagnum plus half sand. Fill with rain water or water low in TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) like distilled water or RO (Reverse Osmosis) water. Next, build a frame over your bog and top the frame with shade cloth. Your frame could be 8 inches over the top of the bog or 8 feet. The object of the frame is to provide shade, but not get in the way of maintenance. Also, the shade cloth could be 40%, 60%, or 80% shade. Some early morning sun should be good for your plants. But it should get some shade for the blazing noon time sun. Most bog plants require nutrient poor environments. Your typical tap water might be too high in TDS and nutriets to be used. That's why I recommend rain, distilled, or ro water. But only you know how good your tap water is. I have the opposite problem here in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin. Will my ground ever become unfrozen enough for me to dig in it. Good grief, I still have 20 inches of snow in my backyard. Would you like some of my snow to melt for watering your bog :-) Tom...See MoreCan fuschia take it?
Comments (4)I brought back a pot of Purple/red fuschia from a trip, the mother plant didn't make it but I took a cutting which is surviving under 30C temperature although it's growing quite slow. Just 2 days ago I pinched the growing tip and use it to propagate another plant....See MoreHelp! Will my new fuschias die because of our climate?
Comments (4)Once upon a time, in about 2005 or so, I was at HD and bought a little fuchsia, an upright, deep pink sepals, deep purple corollas (?) that fade out to a lighter violet. It was in a 4" paper pot when I got it, and I potted it into a 2 gallon pot right away. Lived, at the time, in a fog zone near Monterey, CA. It loved living there, as it was foggy and cool enough that day long sun didn't burn it. Lived a few years there, and it bloomed all summer, and died back in the winter. Moved to a very different zone, out of the fog, and into much hotter summers, where all my plants landed on a porch. Porch got extremely hot in the summer, very bakey, and the fuchsia decided it would croak. Dried out and looked dessicated. So, I put it on the front landing during summer, where it got NO sun except the last few hours of the day, but also was cooler and didn't toast. It didn't bloom as much as when we lived in the fog zone, but it bloomed nicely for the neighbors to see it and remark on it. It got watered whenever the soil was dry, and spritzed if the leaves looked a bit dried out too - but never in the morning where sun would hit the water drops before they dried off. Now I'm back in a coastal climate, in the redwoods, with a lot less sun, and the plant hasn't cooked this summer, and also never bloomed, possibly because I failed to trim it back last winter, and it didn't die back and lose all it's leaves. I'll know better this winter! It's also due for a root prune and new dirt, but that's going to have to wait a bit. My point is they can survive quite a range of conditions that might kill them, if you help them avoid the worst of the bad stuff. If I had kept my fuchsia on the porch all summer, there is no doubt it would have crisped and died - temps were easily in the 80's and 90's a lot, and there was no respite with shade until really late in the day. Finding it a happier location at the apartment allowed it to live, even with somewhat diminished bloom....See Morenancykey
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