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Fuchsia 'Blacky' (d)

fuchsia 'Blacky'

A semi-trailing deciduous shrub to 50cm tall, with dark green leaves, and large double flowers with dark reddish-purple tubes and sepals and dark purple corollas, flowering in summer

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Ultimate height

0.1–0.5 metres

Time to ultimate height

1 year

Ultimate spread

0.1–0.5 metres

Loam

Moisture

Moist but well–drained

pH

Neutral

	Stem	Flower	Foliage	Fruit
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Full sun
Partial shade

Aspect

South–facing or West–facing or East–facing

Exposure

Sheltered

Hardiness
Hardiness ratings
All ratings refer to the UK growing conditions unless otherwise stated. Minimum temperature ranges (in degrees C) are shown in brackets
H1a: under glass all year (>15C)
H1b: can be grown outside in the summer (10 - 15)
H1c: can be grown outside in the summer (5 - 10)
H2: tolerant of low temperatures, but not surviving being frozen (1 to 5)
H3: hardy in coastal and relatively mild parts of the UK (-5 to 1)
H4: hardy through most of the UK (-10 to -5)
H5: hardy in most places throughout the UK even in severe winters (-15 to -10)
H6: hardy in all of UK and northern Europe (-20 to -15)
H7: hardy in the severest European continental climates (< -20)

Botanical details

Family: Onagraceae
Native to the UK: No
Foliage: Deciduous
Habit: Pendulous weeping
Potentially harmful: Although Fuchsia berries are edible, most are not particularly tasty and are sparsley produced on plants. Fuchsia plants are generally grown as an ornamental and not for fruit crops within the UK
Genus: Fuchsia can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs or trees, rarely perennials, with opposite or whorled leaves and usually pendent flowers with conspicuous tubular calyx, 4 spreading sepals and 4 erect petals
Name status: Unresolved

How to grow

Cultivation

Outdoors grow in fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun or part shade in a sheltered position or in containers of peat-free multipurpose potting compost, water freely and use a general liquid fertiliser monthly from spring to summer. Bring indoors and keep frost free over winter in bright filtered light with good ventilation and keep just moist in winter. See hardy fuchsia cultivation for further information

Propagation

Propagate by softwood or semi-ripe cuttings

Suggested planting locations and garden types

City and courtyard gardens
Coastal
Cottage and informal garden
hanging basket
Patio and container plants
Bedding
Conservatory and greenhouse

Pruning

Deadhead after flowering

Pests

May be susceptible to aphids, capsid bug, fuchsia gall mite, fuchsia flea beetle, glasshouse red spider mite and vine weevil

Diseases

May be susceptible to fuchsia rust, grey moulds and honey fungus (rarely)

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