Fuchsia

For all who need to cheer up

Fuchsia strengthens the spirit and invigorates

This plant encourages people to take active action. Grandmother, who was presented with a fuchsia for seventy years, quite possibly after a while to disconcert relatives with the message that she started to learn Spanish or enrolled in a ballroom dance studio. Emotional, bright plant attracts a person in search of new sensations, awakens the spirit of adventurism, instills cheerfulness and confidence in their own abilities. Next to fuchsia, a person stops analyzing the past in search of the causes of today's failures and looks ahead. The desire to live a busy life, that's what distinguishes the owner of fuchsia.

CARE FEATURES A bright location( although it can withstand some shading), abundant watering, nutritious substrate and fresh air contribute to well-being, rapid growth and abundant fuchsia blossom. Summer fuchsia will happily spend on the balcony. However, it should be protected from direct sunlight, under which flowers and leaves can get burned. In winter, the plant is rearranged to a cold bright place, watering is greatly reduced.

Spring is the update time. Fuchsia is transplanted into a mixture of leaf, turf and sand. All dry and weak shoots are removed, strong and healthy shorten. Fuchsia easily propagates by cuttings throughout spring and summer.

Do you think that your child is too timid? Then get two or three fuchsias about the house. Look after the plant with the baby.(Be sure to wait until flowering. .. Changes in the character will occur, but not too quickly, do not rush the time, it works for you.)

Family of feathery( oslinnikovye) Fuscia genus Natural climatic conditions: subtropics All fuchsia have a characteristic structure of the flower,like a lantern: painted sepals, like petals, form a long tube and stellately bend at the edges, from under them protrudes a comparable corona-like length, usually different in color, from which protrude nesticks and stamens Fuchsia shiny ♦ Compact shrub columnoid shaped( lateral shoots are located at an acute angle to the main one), leaves are opposite, from pointed-elliptical to cordate-oval, up to 10 cm long, finely toothed at the edges, dark green with reddish purpleInflorescence - a multicolor brush, flowers tubular at the base, with a strong bend of pointed petals, orange-red or sharlakhov. Fruits are edible. Colors from April to October. Fuchsia hybrid * Very polymorphic species. Varieties differ both in appearance and in terms of flowering( RC - early blossoming, SC - srednetsvetveschy, GG - late flowering).

Varieties: "Display" - medium saplings, shoots vertical, flowers of medium size, simple, corolla and sepals of dark pink color, RC;"Cascade" - shoots ampelnye, leaves are large, green;flowers on long pedicels, axillary, large, sepals light pink, corolla carmine red, SC;"Ettra" - a tall bush, flowers are terry, large, sepals are shar-lahovye, white-pink corolla, RC;"Jubilee" - medium-tall bush, flowers are terry, large, sepals crimson, corolla pink, SC;and other varieties.

Fuchsia dendritic ♦ High plant, leaves elliptical, dense;flowers in the apical brushes, small, purple-pink. Blossoms from September to January.

Fuchsia elegant ♦ Up to 1 m in height, the leaves are oval-lanceolate to 5 cm in length, glabrous, serrated along the edge, green with reddish veins and reddish petioles;flowers in the racemose inflorescence, drooping, with bright red sepals and a purple-red corolla.

Fuchsia is beautiful ♦ Up to 1.5 m tall;leaves with wavy margins and notches at the ends of veins, dark green with red tint;inflorescences thyroid, numerous, flowers drooping, with long tubule, coral.

Fuchsia recumbent ♦ Semishrub with thin creeping shoots, leaves on long petioles, small( up to 1 cm in length), almost round;flowers single, axillary, sepals with a tube yellow, corolla greenish.

Fuchsia small-leaved * Low-bodied shrub, leaves small, acute;flowers small, axillary, red-purple.

Fuchsia low ♦ Leaves are narrow, shiny;flowers small, red.

Fuchsia spherical ♦ Up to 1.5 m in height, shoots thin, leaves oval-pointed, serrated at the edges;buds are globose, sepals are red, petals are long, blue.

Fuchsia shchitkvotsvetkovaya ♦ A tall upright bush;leaves oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, up to 15 cm long;inflorescences schitkopodobnye, flowers drooping, purplish-red. Fruits are edible, rich in vitamins. Fuchsia bright red ♦ Shoots thin, leaves oval, short-petioled;sepals red, long, corolla purple, blooms from April to September. An unpretentious plant.

Requirement for moisture: in summer abundant watering and spraying, in the winter-moderate.

Temperature regime: winter temperature 12-14 ° C, most species tolerate and smaller. For bloom, most species require at least 18 ° C.Poorly carries drafts. Fuchsia treelike prefers warm rooms.

Light mode: unpretentious plant, can be kept in any exposition, although the eastern and the western are optimal.

Requirement for soil: undemanding plant, a mixture of turf and humus lands with sand in a ratio of 3: 5: 1 is well suited. In the summer fertilizing with mineral fertilizers is necessary.

Reproduction: cuttings( after spring pruning) and seeds. Seeds are medium in size, they are only lightly sprinkled with earth. Easily rooted even in water.

Features: after the beginning of budding, it is not recommended to rearrange - it can discard flowers. If young specimens contain in winter at a temperature of about 10 ° C, the next year they will be particularly large and strong plants. It is needed to attach a beautiful shape to the crown in pruning, pinching and pinching the top.