I love Fuchsia
A couple of years ago I bought a hanging basket with them in it, for my mom for Mother's Day. Sad thing, it died really fast. :/ I checked and knew it was a shade plant so I couldn't figure out why it just wilted up and died like 3 days after I bought it. It was mostly in the shade...
Fast forward to last year.. My parents have a window box in front of their kitchen window. It has sat empty for years. They never used it. No one ever noticed because they had this horrible pine bush that was taking over the flower bed below (Right in front) of it. I hated that stupid bush. Especially in the winter because the snow would collect on it, then it would hang out over the sidewalk to the house and you had to sneak around it to not get covered in snow. So... I convinced my parents to get rid of it. I spent an entire afternoon covered in dirt to get that stupid thing out.
Now the window box is in full view, and looks really weird with nothing in it. So, I decided in like April to go to the Nursery and find some plants to go in it. The box is shaded most of the day, so I figured Fuchsia would be perfect there. Well.. no. This time the sun didn't kill it though. 2 days after I planted it in there it froze overnight. :/ Really!? There goes number 2.
Now lets go to last week... My mom wanted to go get some flowers to plant in the window box as well as all her other pots. She didn't buy any Fuchsia to go in there because we realized that the sun reaches the box at around 2 in the afternoon and that's way too much sun for a shade plant. But, we did buy some Fuchsia. I was bound and determined to make it grow. My mom bought 2 different colored ones (The stiff variety, not the droopy) and I bought one as well. I told her that they must be in the shade, so we planted them in pots and put them under one of the benches out back, by the back door, so you could still see them. I thought mine would do great right by the back of the house, at my in-laws.
Just to be sure I looked up online how to grow them. I read they are REALLY hard to grow and are never supposed to be in the sun. So, the next morning I went out back and checked to see if the sun hits the back of the house in the morning. Well, it does... I had no I idea where I was going to plant it now! But then I had a thought... There is one place, that's always shady and I can actually look at it everyday from the basement.....
Our bathroom's window well!!!
Not to toot my own horn, but I felt like a bona fide genius! The other plants is either shade or sun, it's from the Coleus family and it's called Pineapple. It does get a little hint of sun right as the sun right in the morning. The Fuchsia is far enough to the right that it doesn't. Another plus about it's location... the sprinklers water them for me. ;)
There was one flower on the Fuchsia that was bloomed when I bought it. it's fallen off but there are 2 other flowers on it that were kinda close. They have popped open! I have always wanted to be good at growing flowers and such. Geez, I should have some talent somewhere. My grandpa Pehrson was not only a green thumb, his whole body should've been green. Lol! My parents laugh at me all the time and say, "just wait to get your own house." I can't wait for that either! I will be so excited to plant all the fun flowers I see at the Nursery. It will be really fun!
So, I'm really excited they are doing so well, but I will be watching closely, everyday and we will see if I can keep them healthy. There has been no problems with them yet... but who knows...
