Diese blutenden Herzen waren im Sommer wegen der Hitze und des fehlenden Regens etwas traurig. Als der September kam und es anfing zu regnen, spielten sie verrückt und ich hatte eine Blüte nach der anderen. Der Ratschlag zum Zurückschneiden lautet im Sommer, nachdem die Blüten verblüht sind. Hier sind wir im November und sie sind immer noch stark. Irgendwelche Vorschläge, um sicherzustellen, dass sie im nächsten Frühling gesund sind?
Außerdem ist mein Gehweg zu groß geworden, also muss ich mich irgendwann darum kümmern.
Von: rideoncycling
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These look like fuschias. A lot of fuschias are autumn flowering, so I’m not sure it was delayed as such. You’d typically prune fuschias in the spring and avoid pruning in winter because of the potential for frost damage.
In the spring, you could absolutely cut it back hard.
Down to the ground in Spring is best-all fuschias flower on the current Season’s growth.
Fuschias flower best later on in the Season because they need the trigger of a shorter day/longer night to perform at their best.Dahlias are similar too.
Every year I cut mine down to nothing. And every year it comes back bigger and better…
Wait till flowers drop off…then ya can form/shape it🤷👍🙂
All my Fuschia’s were late this year. So were my Dad’s the other end of the country. Our best guess is that it is to do with the weird weather this year.
Don’t touch them yet. Wait until spring when they start to shoot and then cut them down to just above the ground.
Bleeding hearts (either true Dicentra or Lamprocapnos) both flower earlier in the year, when the days are getting longer. Fuschia’s wont begin to flower until after midsummer, when the days start to get shorter. Therefor the advice on when to cut back is completely different.
What you can do is deadhead fuschia’s flowers when they start to fade or set fruit. In a normal year, this will extend flowering even further. However because we are so late in the year, a hard frost will be more likely to bring the display to an end.
Congrats though, they are a lovely plant 🙂
I just leave my fuschias over winter and cut them back later. In fact this year I didn’t get around to doing any yard work to speak of until June or July, when I cut my fuschia back pretty hard, and it has been covered in flowers for weeks. Unfortunately it probably will all fall off since we’ve had snow and freezing the last two days but I’m just going to leave it until spring. I’ve heard that having the leaves on it helps protect it over winter.
Looks like fuschia riccartonii (they’re fairly distinctive but also definitely the most common uk fuschia), if so they’re stupendously durable- they were first bred just outside of Edinburgh at my old workplace, specifically for hardiness and general unfussiness about weather, so they can also react pretty well to long warm autumns etc.
Good news is unless you go mad you’re not likely to kill them by mistake, and even if you cause them to have a bad year next year they’ll almost certainly recover. At my old place I had to hack them back brutally every year just because they spread fast and are so attractive to bees. Unless you want to form a particular shape you cna pretty much let them get on with it.
It’s no a bleeding heart. It’s a fuchsia. Cut back in spring.