Im looking for a fuchsia.

[4390evans]

I'm looking for a fuchsia, I am wanting the one that grows beyond 6-7 feet. I bought one the other day only to see it doesn't grow beyond 3 feet.
My nanna had one years ago and was well above 10 foot, it was the normal red and purple kind, anyone got any ideas?

[Martin H]

The normal red and purple kind is a species, Fuchsia magellanica. It's about the hardiest one there is, but unfortunately a hard frost will knock it back to the ground. It grows tall only in places with a good microclimate. So in coastal places it can be used for hedging, it can get quite big against a sheltered house wall, but round here it has to re-grow from ground level most years because of cold winter nights.

There's several varieties of F. magellanica with different flowers, but they mostly have the same hardiness as the species.

[veggiechicken]

I grow Mrs Popple. She's been living in my garden for at least 30 years and flowers almost non-stop. However, I doubt that she would grow taller than 5' as she needs a bit of pruning and cutting back each year.
She has larger flowers than Magellanica, I believe.

[donksey]

I heard on a bbc podcast today that you can eat fuschia berrys.
The guy said that if as much effort had gone into cultivating it's berry production 100 years ago as it did for strawberrys and cherrys then by now it could well have been in the fruit section of the supermarket.

[veggiechicken]

I eat Mrs Popple's berries.

[Bill HH]

I eat Mrs Popple's berries.

Are they worth eating?

[veggiechicken]

They're OKish. I wouldn't grow them just for the fruit!

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[roitelet]

I have mag. Alba which gets to about 6ft starting from ground level each year and has survived -20C.

[rary]

Could you be looking for Lady Boothby which get sold as a climbing fuchsia

[4390evans]

I've gave up on the fushia, been to quite a few garden centres and not many that they have grow beyond 5-6 feet which is a shame. I've bought a few honey suckles which I am going to pot on and get big and healthy before putting out.

Does anyone know the right time to put them in the ground so winter doesn't kill em off, also do they produce anything you can eat?

Thanks guys