Fuchsia 'Burning Bush'
fuchsia 'Burning Bush'
A bushy, deciduous shrub to 30cm tall, with a prostrate trailing habit, and striking foliage starting yellowy-green in spring then turning dark red-orange and yellow on the tips when it matures. Abundant pendent single flowers have a purple corolla and orange-red sepals, flowering from summer through to autumn
Size
Growing conditions
Colour & scent
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Position
Aspect
Exposure
Botanical details
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Fruit, are, ornamental, -, not, to, be, eaten., Wear, gloves, and, other, protective, equipment, when, handling
- 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
Accepted
How to grow
Cultivation
Grow in a cool or frost-free greenhouse in containers of peat-free multi-purpose compost in bright indirect light and keep just moist. Can be grown outside for summer containers in sun or part shade, water freely and use a general liquid fertiliser monthly. See tender fuchsia cultivation for further information
Propagation
Propagate by softwood cuttings in any season
Suggested planting locations and garden types
Pruning
Pruning Group 6
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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