Pruning sun fuschia

[Persephone]

This is So.Calif coastal.

I have let my sun fuschias get out of hand.

Lots of branches crossing; little "threads" from dead blooms, in short, a mess.

Rather than get in there and fiddle with all this, which would take forever, am wondering whether I could just cut back to a few trunks and wait for plants to come back.

(I have done this repeatedly with a "regular" fuschia when it got too long & droopy, and it always came back. But the configuration of this fuschia is quite different from the tangled mess of the sun fuschias.)

Any experience/input on this?

Persephone

[V_coerulea]

What is a "sun fuchsia"? Gary

[Charles]

I've run over them with a lawn mower and dug them up, just leaving a bit of root, and they came back. If they are in the ground, and established, they are quite sturdy. I presume you are speaking of real fuchsias which are sun tolerant. Need any 20 foot long cuttings?

[John A. Keslick, Jr.]

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[Persephone]

Duh...Now that you ask...

I've always heard this particular one called "sun fuchsia", and just concluded that the term meant that it would take more sun than "regular" ones. I went online to look for the term, but didn't find.

However, I did find a picture om WikiPedia that looks a lot like the plant I'm concerned with.