Growing Area

The Growing Area photographs have been taken on six occasions at fortnightly intervals, show how one hundred Fuchsia plants have grown in my garden during the summer months of 2005, to view please click Growing Area Photographs. Most of these plants have been trained into the shapes of standards including the fifteen cultivars previously shown during the Training and Flowering periods

Fuchsia Standards are relatively easy to grow, any gardener who is skilled in growing plants in pots can be expected to be successful. The gardener is able to decide upon the number, sizes and shapes to meet his/her personal needs with a wide range of cultivars to choose from.

To grow Fuchsia Standards there is no need for a greenhouse or artificial heating system. The plants are grown outside during the summer months and stored in a frost free room during the winter. Only a small growing area is needed. A part of the garden, allotment or back yard is all that is required.

The growing of Fuchsia Standards is also an inexpensive hobby. The cost of buying a small young plant in spring to be trained into the shape of a standard plant and all of the materials required was £1.50 per plant (actual cost 2005).