Fuchsia ‘Lady Boothby’
The Fuchsia ‘Lady Boothby’ that Tralamander sent me back in January …
… I took a few cutting & it …
… was put out on the balcony in March …
together with a couple of pots of cuttings I took from it:
It had spent several months in a pot on the table in a corner of the balcony while it grew bigger & while I waited for the weather to warm up but finally I planted it in a big pot where I have a shrub rose ‘Fred Loads’. As this rose has been getting worse every year – it hasn’t even flowered this year & the only bud that was forming was burnt off by the days of strong winds we had during late May – early June:
The growing tips of the Fuchsia were also burnt off a couple of weeks ago so I turned the pot around so that the plant is now pointing into the balcony which I hope will give it a little extra protection from the winds.
I noticed this morning that it is now growing again. The plant is about 40-50 cm high now but as soon as it can get going again I’ve no doubt it will take off & in a few months time will be taller than me:
I don’t know the eventual height but it is probably several metres. I don’t expect it to reach that sort of height this year though.
The King's garden 