Fuchsia Fuchsias are a well-established favourite in Britain for both border and container planting. They have a long flowering season and their growing habits range from upright bushes to trailers and large standards. Fuchsia flowers come in all sorts of attractive shapes and sizes, including singles, semi-doubles and doubles and may be upward or outward facing.
Colours vary from pinks, purples, whites and reds through to multicoloured mixtures.
Fuchsia magellanica is sometimes even grown as a hedge, as can be seen in Cornwall, Western Ireland or the Isles of Scilly. Tennessee Waltz' May be grown as a standard. It has fully double blooms of up-swept sepals and a shaggy corolla of lavender splashed pink. If planted in John Innes compost and given a warm, sunny position out of strong winds, these fuchsias should bloom continually. Fuchsia Planting uses History Colour challenge Varieties Plant care Overwintering Greenhouse growing Plant form and training Making a standard Find out more about fuchsias .