The Southern Hemisphere genus Fuchsia produces a wealth of beautiful species with incredibly elegant flowers. As a result, these plants\u2014native to South America and New Zealand\u2014quickly became popular choices for flower beds and balconies. But in addition to the universally popular\u2014yet frost-sensitive\u2014cultivated varieties, the genus also offers hardy species and varieties that are definitely worth growing. <\/p>\n
First and foremost, Fuchsia magellanica, which comes in a variety of colors and shapes.<\/p>\n
I like to plant these magnificent partial-shade plants along the edges of the forest, where their late blooms scatter like autumn jewels among the otherwise rather flower-sparse edges of the woodland.<\/p>\n
Plant them unusually deep\u2014the top of the pot should be 5\u20138 cm below ground level. Soil enriched with organic fertilizer and compost is just as beneficial to these beauties as a sufficiently thick layer of mulch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Southern Hemisphere genus Fuchsia produces a wealth of beautiful species with incredibly elegant flowers. As a result, these plants\u2014native to South America and New Zealand\u2014quickly became popular choices for flower beds and balconies. But in addition to the universally popular\u2014yet frost-sensitive\u2014cultivated varieties, the genus also offers hardy species and varieties that are definitely worth growing. <\/p>\n
First and foremost, Fuchsia magellanica, which comes in a variety of colors and shapes.<\/p>\n
I like to plant these magnificent semi-shade plants along forest edges, where their late blooms scatter like autumn jewels among the otherwise rather flower-sparse edges of the woodland.
\nThey should be planted unusually deep\u2014the top of the pot should be 5\u20138 cm below ground level. Soil enriched with organic fertilizer and compost suits these beauties just as well as a sufficiently thick layer of mulch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plant-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}