Fuchsia perscandens

[Maggi Young]

That is very kind of you, meanie... but no thanks, I would have to plant it outside and I don't think it would stand a chance here.
We do have Fuchsia procumbens outside but it takes a terrible hammering most years.
 I'll just enjoy your pictures,  thanks again. 

[Hoy]

I have merged two pages, Trond.... so scroll up to the first post on the page and your wish is granted.....

Thank you, Maggi! Certainly I don't have the memory of an elephant (but I know it when I see one). I remember the picture when I see it!

Maggi - I think that sometimes we don't pay enough attention to flower buds........

Hoy - this is what they will look like (as long as we don't get any Arctic weather)

Looks like being a really good display this year, especially as the leaves will be very small  (they're usually hid beneath the leaves).

Thank you, meanie! Very nice - a sort of modest charm! Not at all like their overfat cousins!
Do you get arctic winters?

[TheOnionMan]

Meanie, is the white flower a white form of normally red-flowered Malvaviscus?

[meanie]

Maggi - bu@@er!! |I was hoping that you would have success with a cutting and let me in on the secret!
If you can get F.procumbens through, this should be fine. In the past I've over-wintered it under cover, but this year it has been out all winter and looks like it will bloom better than ever.

Hoy - thankfully we do not get arctic winters!

OnionMan - The white flower is Datura wrightii.

[Maggi Young]

Reading this with Ian in the background, meanie.... he says it would be churlish not to accept your offer.
So, if I might change my mind and gratefully accept the chance of a cutting, then, Thanks very much!
Will pm address in anticipation

[meanie]

Reading this with Ian in the background, meanie.... he says it would be churlish not to accept your offer.
So, if I might change my mind and gratefully accept the chance of a cutting, then, Thanks very much!
Will pm address in anticipation

As you have the memory of an elephant, remind me May time. This will give you time to advise me on the best type of cutting (hard or soft) to send.

[Maggi Young]

Will do my best..........

[annew]

Great photos - what are they? I love the white one especially

[meanie]

Great photos - what are they? I love the white one especially

In order they are; Datura wrightii, Cleome spinosa and Aconitum carmichaelii.

[David Lyttle]

Reading this with Ian in the background, meanie.... he says it would be churlish not to accept your offer.
So, if I might change my mind and gratefully accept the chance of a cutting, then, Thanks very much!
Will pm address in anticipation

Maggi,

If you can grow Fuchsia procumbens you will have no difficulty with Fuchsia perscandens. It is considerably more hardy and  winter deciduous. However dont plant it in a greenhouse it will occupy all the space you allow it. It roots very easily from cuttings usually in a matter of weeks.

[Maggi Young]

David, that is most encouraging news, thank you.
No fear of it going in a glass house... around here you have to be a bulb to get that place.

[Hoy]

Reading this with Ian in the background, meanie.... he says it would be churlish not to accept your offer.
So, if I might change my mind and gratefully accept the chance of a cutting, then, Thanks very much!
Will pm address in anticipation

Maggi,

If you can grow Fuchsia procumbens you will have no difficulty with Fuchsia perscandens. It is considerably more hardy and  winter deciduous. However dont plant it in a greenhouse it will occupy all the space you allow it. It roots very easily from cuttings usually in a matter of weeks.

I don't grow procumbens but magellanica. How is the hardiness compared with magellanica?

[David Lyttle]

I don't grow procumbens but magellanica. How is the hardiness compared with magellanica?
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It should be very similar

[meanie]

It should be very similar
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That is good news! I have F.procumbens coming along from seed and will have enough plants to experiment.

[Hoy]

It should be very similar

Thanks! That's good news! Now I have two more on my list: Fuchsia procumbens and perscandens.
Have to look for seeds or cuttings