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Fuchsia Winston Churchill in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Fuchsia 'Winston Churchill'

 

Fuchsia 'Winston Churchill'

Fuchsias are grown for their very attractive, usually pendent flowers that are borne continuously from summer to autumn. Frost tender fuchsias are the more specialised and elaborately flowered specimens. 'Winston Churchill' is a very free-flowering bushy upright fuchsia with double flowers of pink and lavender-blue.

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plant Features
  • Fuchsia Winston Churchill likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Fuchsia Winston Churchill likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Fuchsia Winston Churchill is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Fuchsia Winston Churchill likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Fuchsia 'Winston Churchill'

Latin name

Fuchsia 'Winston Churchill'

type

Deciduous trees or shrubs

family

Onagraceae

ph

5.0 - 8.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Fuchsia Winston Churchill likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Fuchsia Winston Churchill is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Fuchsia Winston Churchill likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

  • Water

    Fuchsia Winston Churchill likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant
  •  
    When the plant will bloom

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Fuchsia Winston Churchill is 0.50meters x 1.00meters 0.50 M 1.00 M

Fuchsia 'Winston Churchill'

Fuchsias are grown for their very attractive, usually pendent flowers that are borne continuously from summer to autumn. Frost tender fuchsias are the more specialised and elaborately flowered specimens. 'Winston Churchill' is a very free-flowering bushy upright fuchsia with double flowers of pink and lavender-blue.


Flowering season

From Late Spring TO Late Autumn

Fuchsia flower from early summer to late autumn or the first frosts, when frost tender and half hardy varieties should be moved into green houses or light airy sheds.

 

Planting outdoors

From Mid Spring TO Early Summer

Plant out container grown plants and established plants taken from cuttings the previous year from mid spring to early summer.

 

Propagation by soft wood cuttings

From Late Spring TO Mid Summer

Take soft wood cuttings in spring to early summer. Cleanly cut up to a 10cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted.Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten, dying or dead cuttings regularly.

 
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