About
Fuchsia 'Bicentennial' is a compact, deciduous shrub that reaches a height of 45 cm. Its trailing stems are adorned with dark green leaves, while it produces a profusion of drooping double flowers. These blooms feature slender white tubes, double corollas in orange-pink, and light orange sepals, blooming from summer into autumn. This variety is well-suited for use in containers and hanging baskets.
About the genus
Fuchsia includes shrubs or trees that can be either deciduous or evergreen, and, less commonly, may appear as perennials. The plants feature leaves that are arranged oppositely or in whorls, and they typically produce drooping flowers characterized by a prominent tubular calyx, four spreading sepals, and four upright petals.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun, Partial shade
- Soil type
- Loam
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained, Well-drained
- Aspect
- East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Exposed, Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H2
Plant details
- Plant type
- Shrubs, Conservatory Greenhouse
- Habit
- Bushy, Trailing
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Height
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Spread
- 0.5-1 metres
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- City and courtyard gardens, Coastal, Cottage and informal garden, Hanging basket, Patio and container plants
- Toxicity
- Although Fuchsia berries are edible, most are not particularly tasty and are sparsely produced on plants. Fuchsia plants are generally grown as an ornamental and not for fruit crops within the UK
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in a cool or frost-free greenhouse in containers of peat-free multi-purpose compost in bright indirect light and keep just moist. Can be grown outside for summer containers in sun or part shade, water freely and use a general liquid fertiliser monthly. See tender fuchsia cultivation for further information
- Pruning
- Pruning Group 6
- Propagation
- Propagate by softwood cuttings in any season
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to aphids, capsid bug, fuchsia gall mite, fuchsia flea beetle, glasshouse red spider mite and vine weevil
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to fuchsia rust, grey moulds and honey fungus (rarely)