PlantFiles: Fuchsia
Fuchsia triphylla 'Gartenmeister Bonstedt'

I bought this by mistake last year at a local garden centre. The reason I think it was a mistake is because it was being sold with other small plants for only 1.25$! Any way’s it has beautiful vivid blooms and over winters well indoors and can take a fair amount of neglect while inside(I must have missed watering it a dozen times) and still bounce back. Just about to come into bloom now after being mostly void of leafy growth when I took it outside this spring.

My husband has bought me a fuchsia plant every mother's day for the past 3 years. In the fall we have thrown it out thinking it was dead. Last year my husband watched HGTV's
Paul James and learned that it could be overwintered. So we tried it by putting it in the crawl space and watering it only twice, once at Thanksgiving and Christmas. We took it out in March put it outside during the day when it was above 40f
and brought it in at night. Well it didn't come back and my husband got me another on Mother's day. He wanted to toss the old one but I wouldn't let him. I put it in the garage until Mother's day and the put it outside. Do you know the darn thing is coming back. The new one has attracted the hummers every day. About 7:am and 6:pm I sit at the kitchen table and watch.

I have two plants flanking my walkway, they hardly get any sun, besides an hour or so in the early morning, but only in summer.
They did suffer a little in the cold, they lost some leaves, but they are bouncing back with a vengeance!

They make pretty flowers on new wood, so I often cut them back in summer to keep them looking in scale with my doorway. Where I live they bloom from March to December!

They have berries that I eat. They are a little sweet, a little bland, but still yummie to me.

(Please don't take my word for it though; you check yourself before you eat them!)

The hummingbirds love them and I have not seen any mite damage so far. Where most blooming Fuchsias have succumbed to the Mighty Mite, this one isn't bothered by it here.

I paid a lot of money for a small plant in the spring and was assured it would grow here in hot San Antonio. I hoped it would last at least until it became hot. The plant slowly wilted and died before I could even plant it in the ground. Perhaps it had a root disease. Because I could not find my receipt, I could not get my money back at Lowe's. I will give it a neutral rating because I am not sure what happened to it. The blooms and the foliage are beautiful. I may try buying one next year and taping my receipt to my computer in case it dies.

I bought this mainly to add to our hummingbird garden. The hummers love it :) It is growing in a pot ~ we bring it indoors to over winter with no problems. It does not die down and go dormant. We keep it with our other houseplants and just put it back out on the porch in the spring!

Wouldn't be without it every summer! Hummers love this plant, so I have 3 or 4 pots of it on the front porch where it gets the morning sun. So exciting to be sitting on the couch in the evening and seeing the Hummers come up the the pots of flowers!

Great plant. This upright Fuchsia has Brick-red blooms. Does good in containers.

Keep it in dappled shade between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Daylight Savings Time. Feed with a 12-55-6 Bloom Booster every two weeks. To overwinter, keep it inside.

I have successfully grown and over-wintered one of these plants for over 10 years. I keep it in an unheated shed during the winter and most years it keeps most of it's leaves and just rests rather than go dormant.
It's a reliable bloomer and the hummers love it.
After flowering it leaves behind a 'fruit'. If you squeeze the fruit, they have a very dark red juice in them. I don't know if they are edible or not? It'd be interesting to find out.

This plant is not hardy here in western NY so this year I overwintered 2 inside since they are not easy to find locally and when they are the price goes up significantly from year to year for a small 3 inch pot. It is a must have for hummingbird gardeners. I kept them in front of west facing glass doors in my kitchen which stays a little cooler than the rest of the house. I kept the plants just barely moist over the winter. In late February I had to trim them back a bit as they were getting overgrown and decided to try rooting the cuttings. I have 12 rooted cuttings transplanted to their own pots in less than 2 weeks. I rooted the cuttings in loose potting soil and just kept the soil evenly moist. I am also trying a couple of leaf cutting now but so far they haven't rooted. I do know of gardeners that have rooted cuttings successfully in plain water also.

These wonderful plants are very difficult to find in nurseries in Massachusetts,(Zone 6) but I usually luck out and purchase one or two plants. I put them on my deck railing under the table umbrella, sit back and enjoy the hummingbirds that flock to them. Between the Monarda in my garden and these I have an enjoyable experience. I usually toss them at end of season (bloom spring til frost), but this year I'll try taking them indoors.

This is the best plant I love. The bright coral tubular flowers open at the ends into a little star. They have tons of blooms at the very tip end of the stems. They bloom from spring to frost. Since they are woody, I expect they live year-round in hotter climates.
They are blooming little fools. What I want to know is how to propagate them? Can someone advise?