Alice Kling

'Alice Kling' is listed as an upright, but she ain't doing that for me so far! I like it anyway, so I am going to work with it. With pruning, eventually it will grow a trunk and I can gradually work it upwards. But it is always going to be a bit mounding and will have hanging branches, sort of like a small weeping willow tree. It could be trained as a "standard." But I don't want to involve any means of support. Otherwise, it has been a trouper. It grows fast and handled the heat wave late this summer very well. Not a bit of sunburn on it!

Hey, I wonder if anyone has ever tried training fuchsias up trellis's?

Amber Rose

'Amber Rose' was one of my mistakes. I only want to collect and grow upright fuchsias. But since I only buy them as tiny fuchsia starts, it is often impossible to tell what they are going to look like as a bush. Usually, a tag will tell you if a fuchsia is an upright or trailing. And to be honest with you, this one did have a tag which said trailer, I just wasn't paying attention.

So for a long time, it was relegated to the back of all the others. Of course I watered it and fertilized it along with all the others, but I never really paid much attention to it otherwise.

Then one day I realized it was actually a pretty cool little fuchsia with interesting possibilities outside of being in a hanging basket. It was not in a hanging basket, it was in a low container, when I realized it would make an excellent mounding ground cover to cascade down my steep gravel hillside! Right now, an English Thyme and a Tri-colored Sage are doing that, but there is room for something more there.

And now that I am going to be trying my hand at using fuchsias in bonsai, I think this would make an excellent bonsai specimen! The tiny thick leaves already look like the carved jade leaves one finds on statue bonsai. Properly trained and pruned, I think it is going to be remarkable!

Ain't She Sweet

'Ain't She Sweet' is going to be one of my favorites, I just know it! I have a particular fondness for the small and simple flowers. Just imagine a big bush full of these. This is another one which will be a learning adventure. How big will this one get? We will find out.

I am going to be trying my hand at bonsai with fuchsias and I think ones with the smaller flowers will do best. One thing people don't get to appreciate who only grow hanging baskets, is the fascinating texture and colors of the bark which forms on well developed trunks of the older fuchsia bushes. A characteristic that will lend itself to making interesting bonsai specimens.

Alsace

'Alsace' is one of a plethora of red and white fuchsias, but I like it. What I call the "skirt" is actually the corolla. This one has a semi-double skirt that doesn't open the same way most of the red and whites do. The outer edge of the petals stay a bit more curved inwards. Before the flower is fully open, it is a more stricking white against the red than some of the others also. You'll see when I post 'Santa Claus' and 'White Wonder' to name a few. That is going to be a while though, because, as you may have noticed, I am trying to go in alphabetical order :-)

Abby Rose

This fuchsia was actually a generic one gallon purchased at a retail chain stores garden department with the simple label on it of "Upright Fuchsia." Which means it is not a variety which has been registered with a name. So I named it after my niece!

It cannot be found in the Plant Files of DavesGarden.com or any other source, because only fuchsias with registered names, the hybridizer, and the date of hybridization are considered for entry. This saves us all a great deal of confusion if adhered to.

'Abby Rose' could probably be grown as either an upright or a hanging basket. But I don't grow hanging baskets, they die way to quickly in the size of pots one can use for hanging. With a bit of pruning, she has developed and a form unique to herself. What form a bush is going to take, is another aspect of fuchsias one will never see in a hanging basket and almost never see at any website. Except mine ;-) I dedicate a whole section just to photographs of them as bushes.

Anita

Here is 'Anita', such a cute little flower, isn't it? I am not really into orange. I love everything blue! But orange is not the color that comes to mind when most people hear the word "fuchsia," so I've always had a soft spot for fuchsia's with orange in them. And I am especially partial to the small and simple flowers. This one is new to my collection this summer, so I don't know yet how fast it is going to grow, nor how tall it can get.

She's going to be beautiful when she's a bigger bush full of these little bright flowers.

My Fuchsia Collection - Amigo

Hi, been a long time this time! I've been working hard on many things. But it is time to get back to posting here on a regular basis. And I think one thing I would like to do is post a new fuchsia every day. Just like I have been doing at DavesGarden.com

All of the ones I will be showing here, where purchased in little 2" pots. That way I could get more varieties, but it requires me to be patient while I wait for each one to bloom for the first time. This one is a cool dude named 'Amigo'.