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Unpretentious Fuchsia will delight any novice florist with a bright "round dance of graceful ballerinas" if he follows a few simple rules. She will be comfortable in a flowerpot on a windowsill, hanging from a suspended planter or in an open ground flower garden. You can decorate salads or birthday cakes and pastries with quite edible Fuchsia flowers
Rod Fuchsia
The genus Fuchsia (Fuchsia), born in the American tropics, delights with the beauty and grace of drooping flowers. Showing the world their elegant skirts of ballerinas in the summer, they shed their outfit with the arrival of autumn, giving people edible berries.
The four lobes of the tubular calyx of the flower may differ in color from the four petals of the corolla, which are so skillfully superimposed on each other by nature that they resemble a ballet tutu. It seems as soon as you turn on the music, the flowers will whirl in a light elegant dance.
Under natural conditions, Fuchsia is a tree-like evergreen plant, turning into a small shrub or carpet plant in culture.
Beautiful and bright green, sometimes slightly reddish, lanceolate or oval Fuchsia leaves, collected in three pieces, with sharp teeth along the edge of the leaf.
Varieties
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Fuchsia sparkling (Fuchsia fulgens) - a shrub from Mexico with all its aerial parts personifies the hymn of love on Earth. It is a light red-colored stem; scarlet-red "ballet skirts" of flowers blooming by the end of summer, forming apical inflorescences-brushes; green leaves are heart-shaped.
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Fuchsia Magellan (Fuchsia magellanica) - from the name itself it is clear where this low-capricious shrub plant came to us. The compact bushes are covered with oval small leaves and purple corollas of flowers, nestled under the protection of creamy red cups.
Fuchsia Magellan is rich in varieties and hybrids. Popular among them: "Squat", the flowers of which are painted in purple or red; "Thin", characterized by dwarf size, fragile flowers and narrow green leaves; "White", the graceful flowers of which are dressed up in pale pink "skirts".
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Fuchsia recumbent (Fuchsia procumbens) - a creeping plant that covers the ground with an elegant carpet, came to us from New Zealand.
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Fuchsia three-leafed (Fuchsia triphylla) - a large-flowered beauty moved to our region from the exotic island of Haiti, which we could only dream of recently, and today it is close at hand. It is distinguished by a serrated edge of green leaves and large orange-red flowers.
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Hybrids Fuchsia Magellan and Fuchsia sparkling - in the culture, hybrids obtained by breeders from these two species are mainly grown. The variety of hybrids allows plants to be used in different types of flower beds. The richness of the color of the calyx and corolla, the shape and degree of doubleness of flowers, types of stems will satisfy any demanding taste of the gardener.
Growing
They do not like direct sunlight, although places need to be lit or semi-shaded.
They love the soil fertile, loose, drained, unfinished.
The environment should be moderately humid, which is maintained by regularly spraying the plant. Watering is needed moderate. In spring and summer, watering is periodically combined with top dressing with liquid fertilizer.
The winter period is the dormant period when the fuchsia sheds its leaves. Indoor plants are kept in an unheated cool room, preventing them from freezing. In the open ground for the winter, the surface is mulched with peat or straw.
You can propagate by seeds, but this is a long process, so they often resort to grafting.
Usage
Fuchsias are suitable for:
• arrangement of elegant borders for garden paths and flower beds;
• growing in different types of flower beds;
• use as a pot culture to decorate garden pavilions, terraces and balconies;
• indoor plants that prefer a moist, well-ventilated place.
To maintain the appearance and enhance the growth of new shoots, the plant is pruned in March.
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