Fuchsias bloom on new wood and are easier to prune now after a frost. They need the hair cut to be beautiful next spring. I don't grow my hair as long as I can because it glues to the top of my flat head from the weight. I prune fuchsia back to the edge of the pot with a round top. Or I pull and stake them up to be confined to the edge of the pot. The in ground ones I cut them off as the stem starts to edge over and droop. It's winter time, we and the plants rest. We get to start over soon enough. I get out an cut out all the slimy stuff that glues other plants down like jellied impatiens. But I don't touch the euphorbia because I want it to come back. And there is a big brown frond on the tree fern that is protecting everything below it that stays too. Personally I don't like a bunch of jury rigged junk thrown over my garden because it is too unsightly. I bring some pots in and pull others close under the eaves. Other then that it's winter time and it's best just to rake leaves and be neat.

Come on all you Fuchsia grower's down there, give pkayen some input. I could only tell her how I treat mine, which are all in the greenhouse for the winter. Since I have just started to plant the hardies up here in Z 7/8, Z10 is a different ballgame. A......

Hi Debbie A couple of points, 1. There is no problem with cutting back your fuchsia at this time of year, you should look for a couple of buds low down on the stems and cut above these (the two buds will give you some insurance that if one fails you should at least have the other). You need to make sure that you donÂt over-water the plant as there will be no foliage for this to evaporate. 3. If you have this in a large pot/container you could also remove some of the soil and repot using some new soil to give the plant a boost. 4. On no account should you feed the plant at this time  wait for about six weeks then give a high nitrogen feed at half strength. Hope this helps. Tight....

If they are hardy fuchsias (very likely since many of these are species - most of the tender ones are hybrids and not very tall growing) then you should be good. Your post has garbled all the size info for my reader (strange symbols rather than numbers or letters), but if the size is significant (over 4') then you most likely DO have hardy fuchsias, probably F. magellanica. I'd be a bit leary of full sun planting for these in the heat of Georgia - part shade would be better. Some forms of magellanica can grow quite tall - I have one that hits 8' regularly - but they tend to be very shrubby rather than tree-like in form. They can also experience some winter dieback, so often pruning back deadwood will reduce their size significantly but they grow back quickly.