Hi all
I planted fushias last year in a sunny stop and they were fine. I cleared away the dead wood in the winter and now one of the five is beginning to grow quite well but the other have sprouted new growth but they are just no coming on. Is it the weather? Should I be feeding more?
Ray
Hi Ray,
as to feeding them, yes, absolutely. They need rich fertile soil. A liquid ocean-based fertilizer is recommended when they start coming up, even in places where you have a wet Spring. But it could also be the weather. Where are you? Here in the Northwest ours were late this year and have only been blooming for a couple of weeks.
Thanks. We are in the midlands and it is stance that one of the 5 is about to flower, a second is coming on fine and the other three are growing but very slowly. And they are all in the same piece of the garden. Can you recommend a feed in terms of the NPK balance. I just have a general one and one for tomatoes. Will one of these do or do I need something different?
There are plants that naturally grow out of shaded understory and come out into the sun at the top, so this is a natural condition for some plants. I have a similar wall - south facing, but substantially shaded by the house, so it mostly only gets sun higher up, and not at all in winter. Ideal conditions for clematis, though you might want to make sure by growing a shade-loving shrub at the bottom of the wall, like ferns or something - in my case the sun does get quite low down on the wall in high summer. I have both ferns and some tough evergreens to make sure that the bottom of the clematis is shaded. Hydrangea petiolaris is also doing well. I've seen climbing camellia doing well in such conditions, but you need to be sure the soil is not in any way alkaline for that. I used to have a fremontedendron which did well until the recent cold winters killed it. Other clinging evergreen wall-shrubs which could get high enough to be mostly out in the sun might like it - Azara, wall forms of pyracantha, etc. With some thought and a plant encyclopedia you could no doubt thing of many other things.
HI Ray,
I have a very similar situation in my garden at the moment. I planted 2 upright fushias last year that did well, in spring I pruned away the dead wood and one of the two has come back well and looks really good with lots of flowers, while the other one is struggling. They're about half a meter away from each other so can't imagine it's anything to do with the soil, position, fertilizer etc. I put mine down the the type of plant, the one thats coped is the standard pink and purple whilst the one thats struggled is white and purple.
Intersted to hear if yours are all the same colours or if it's a similar situation to mine?
Kate
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