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14.Best replanting time of old hardy fuchsias

From fuchsia-lovers I hear sometimes that they find it a big disadvantage from hardy fuchsias that they cann't been transplanted. Transplanting in the flowering season gives indeed problems and after replanting then they mostly die. But when can that transplanting happens best: in spring or in autumn? My own experience with it you find in following article.

As you can read in the part of this website 'Ned-H3 hardy fuchsias' in chapter 4 'The design and the course of the tests at Velp' we have removed a part two till four years old plants from the original to a new testingground. That replanting occurs in spring of 1990.

Most of these plants are run out again after the free heavy winter of 1990 (allthough lateron then in the preceding years) and have grown out till robust and richly flowering plants.

A second experience with replanting of hardy fuchsias was acquired by elevation of the testingground in Velp in autumn 1995. The owner of it had the plan to make ready for own use this part of his nursery then also to plough under the planted trial plants. Before that the members of our researchgroup have taken away still a number of these plants for replanting in their own garden; and also dig out plants are devided under a number of members of a Guelders regio-society.

1. Replanting border front garden - In spring 2001 there became filled up the hole in this border on the earlier place of a cut down conifer with new and replanted hardy fuchsias (look also picture 4).

2.F.magellanica 'fuchoj'- This sub-species grows out in my front garden after every winter. season on the frozen branches. Well he becomes by this out of form. A picture of end May 2001; the first flowering then has allready started.

So this replanting occurs in autumn and I have heart of the members of our researchgroup and members of our regio-society that their taken away trial plants didn't run out after the winter or only came back with some thin offshoots. In my garden the result was also bad. At this moment their rest still two plants. That is a F. magellanica ' fuchoj' . From moment of replanting this fuchsia run out after every winterseason on the not-cutdown branches, see photo 2. And last week of May this fuchsia is the first one that is flowering.

The other plant is a 'Flibustier'. In the beginning I thought that this plant he won't last out with his thin offshoots. But a year lateron this fuchsia came back with only one offshoot of more than 1,50 m height.

After the mild winterseason 1999 - 2000 I saw green offshoots on this branch and therefore I didn't cut it down. With as a result that this plant developed in the flowering season as a well grown out and rich flowering standard. After the mild winter of 2000 - 2001 the plant has run off renewed on the branches and was flowering allready in the begin of June. End June 2001 the dimensions of this then rich flowering 'standard' were 1,70 m height and 1,50 m wide; the trunk has under a diameter of 35 mm.

The fuchsias in one of my borders in my frontgarden had become very large and some were standing to close to each other. Therefore there are removed also two.

3.'Flibustier' Ned-H3 'standard' - Only on the lonely branch of 1,50 m high from 1998 formed by run off out of the side-branches now allready two years this Ned-H3 'standard' (this picture is made in the begin of June 2001).

In an other border of the frontgarden there had become a 'hole' after the removing of a heigh conifer. This hole I have filled half May with the above named two 5 years old Ned-H3's plus still four new Ned-H3's, that has been slipped the year before in August and they are grown up in the greenhouse. The old dig out Ned-H3's showed by digging out allready little offshoots. Photo 1 and 4 show that the plants A and B in the begin of June allready have grown out with many robust offshoots and in the begin of July the first flowers were hanging to it.

A B

C D

E F

4. Replanting border frontgarden - A and B are planted 5 years old Ned-H3's; C t/m G are rooted cuttings from the year before. A= 'Margaret' , B= 'Howlett's Hardy'; C = 'Floralies de Nantes', D= 'Beacon Rose', E, F and G= 'Flocon de Neige' .

Summary

The transplanting of old hardy fuchsias best can happen in spring from 15 May. By the removing there are mostly a number of damages to the rootball. An in spring dig out plant, that then has formed allready again its first new offshoots, withstand this damage of the roots better than by replanting in autumn. The older transplanted Ned-H3's you must plant deeper and do so with a dimple. The enlarged planthole filling with some potsoil furthered a more fast grown-out. After replanting you must give the plant a given of water.

'Gelderse Fuchsia Info-site'- November 2008