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Author Message   Duckwatcher  Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 12:04 am EST :    Hope I chopped the top sprout at the right time. I waited till it had some branches out and then pinched off the top. The one in the bottom you can see will be just a bush. Duckwatcher - Northern California, Zone "9b"   Duckwatcher  Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 11:08 pm EST :    Hmm... I don't think this plant has done anything since I posted this, that lower plant died. Am I doing something wrong? Duckwatcher - Northern California, Zone "9b"   Malgorzata  Supporting Member My Garden Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 12:34 am EST :    DW, are you sure that that fuchsia type was for your climate? Sadly I can not grow most of those beauties here because they do not take the heat of summer well. Just die. :( I envy so much those beautiful fuchsias I saw in UK... Malgorzata - Fukuoka-Kyushu, Zone "8/9"   Duckwatcher  Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 11:34 am EST :    Malgorzata, Hmmm... well they sell them at the stores here but that doesn't mean anything. There was one in a pot when I first moved in to my house. Looked a bit unhappy after a lot of TLC she has been blooming happily for 6 years now. I keep her against the house so in the winter she gets the radient heat and I cover her with a frost blanket. The topiary is one of her "children" I made it for a cutting. I think the other died b/c I forgot to water them :(. The topiary was growing quite vigorously and now nothing... not dying not growing. Duckwatcher - Northern California, Zone "9b"   Plantlady2  My Favorite Photo My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 10:43 pm EST :    One of my sisters-in-law has the most beautiful, full fuchsia topiary you ever saw. It surprised me because she's not much of a gardener. Then she showed me her secret- her hubby had made her a stand- in a pot- out of a 2" brown branch from a birch tree- looked just like the stem of the tree fuchsias in the nursery- the branch had a board attached to the bottom for stability- then the pot was filled with soil to hide the board. A 6" board was attached to the top & she just plunked a nice full $19.00 fuchsia on the board & it looked like the fuchsia trees at the local nurseries that sell for around $100.00!! Plantlady2 - Washington, Zone "7"   Fbonsailady  Supporting Member My Favorite Photo My Garden Journal My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 03:29 am EST :    Hi all, Well here we call them 'fuchsia standards'. A tip so that your pots don't fall over with the weight of the top growth. Make a ring of concrete, using 2 plastic flower pots. One the same size as the pot which the fuchsia standard is growing in and one at least 3 inches larger. Stand the smaller one inside the larger one and fill the space between the two with 3 or 4 inches of concrete (in depth). After a couple of days remove the plastic flower pots and you then have a concrete ring. Hope you can understand my explanation Here one of my past standards called 'Checkerboard' Kath Zone 8b UK   Malgorzata  Supporting Member My Garden Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 06:27 am EST :    Your "Checkerboard" standard is gorgeous Kath! Kaith,that is the tip I was searching for and asking around...for years!! Oh My, how glad I am you posted it! I do understand your explanation how to make the ring but...I am not sure what to do with the ring next. Do I keep the pot in the ring? Do you happen to have any pictures? I have some rose standards and other plants in the pots that just with our strong winds fall down too often (I tried everything that I could think off to secure them!). Now, finally there is a hope! How I wish I could find the kind of fuchsia that survives our hot and humid summers... just one so far but not really attractive as the most I see on the pictures or even in the nurseries here (but they succumb to heat and humidity anyway!). Cory, would you have the picture of your SIL fuchsia standard? Sound like another great idea. Malgorzata - Fukuoka-Kyushu, Zone "8/9"   Monique  Supporting Member My Favorite Photo My Garden Journal My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 07:05 am EST :    Kath! Just by chance I found this~ It's just perfect! Monique Quebec Zone 5   Fbonsailady  Supporting Member My Favorite Photo My Garden Journal My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 08:28 am EST :    Yes, you've got it Malgorzata, after the concrete ring has thoroughly dried, then place, for example, one of your rose-bush-standard-pots' inside the ring. Another tip, the bigger the pot, the more height you must give to the ring. No, sorry I don't have any pictures of this 'do-it-yourself' ring Hi Monique, your're welcome, we have both come 'alive' again now it is summertime Kath Zone 8b UK   Malgorzata  Supporting Member My Garden Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 08:52 am EST :    Thank you Kath! Malgorzata - Fukuoka-Kyushu, Zone "8/9"   Plantlady2  My Favorite Photo My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 12:25 am EST :    Malgorzata- I don't have a picture of the Sister-in-law's fuchsia-wanna-be-standard. We're going there next week & I'll see if she did it again this year & if she did I'll take a pict. Cory Plantlady2 - Washington, Zone "7"   Malgorzata  Supporting Member My Garden Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 01:28 am EST :    Thank you Cory! Malgorzata - Fukuoka-Kyushu, Zone "8/9"

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