How to grow Fuchsias with specialist grower Peter Harris of White House Nursery.

This week on the Horti-Culturalists we return to the wonderful to meet up with owner Peter Harris and talk about his OTHER passion after tuberous begonias; Fuchsias! With over 75 named varieties Peter must have one of the biggest collections of Fuchsias in Australia and who better than to ask all you ever wanted to know about how to grow these fabulously showy plants! In this video Peter shows us some species Fuchsia types, shows us how to take cuttings, repot, how to create a standard Fuchsia plant, the common pests and we even end up eating one! If you want to see Peter’s brilliant video on tuberous begonia care we made a year ago, you can here: The species Fuchsias we look at are: Fuchsia triphylla Fuchsia procumbens Fuchsia denticulata With over 75 named Fuchsia varieties we only cover a few specific ones: Fuchsia ’Lord Byron’ Fuchsia ’La Rosita’ Fuchsia ’Annabel’ fuchsia ’Bon Accord’ 0:00 introduction to growing Fuchsias 1:25 Introduction to Peter Harris - specialist Fuchsia grower 6:31 species Fuchsias 10:42 the two types of Fuchsia flower form: single & double 12:26 colour change in Fuchsia flowers 14:05 how to take Fuchsia cuttings 20:58 when to repot Fuchsia cuttings 24:15 when to repot mature Fuchsias 26:56 two forms of Fuchsia plant: upright & hanging 29:16 Fuchsia hardiness 30:34 how to create a standard Fuchsia 34:57 how to pot a standard Fuchsia 40:04 common Fuchsia pests 45:18 Fuchsia seed pods are edible!