How and when to prune a fuchsia?
Question:I have a fuchsia in my front garden, but I really don't like it. It takes over the whole place but I am not allowed to remove it. I would liket o prune it or split it into several plants. Could you please tell me how and when this is best done?
Answers:
the best time to cut back your fuchia is in the middle of the winter. Fushias are amazingly hardy plants. Once established will cope with almost anything. You can cut back to the ground if you like and it will shoot up again. However, if you are in a frosty area, new growth will be burnt off in winter. If you are in a cold area, your fushia may possibly lose its leaves and look quite dead. Don't despair - you won't have killed it. It's just waiting for warm weather again. I have found the small leaf/flower fushias (Tom Thumb??) incredibly drought resistant. I have a deep pink/purple and also a pale pink - both large shrubs and cope admirably with both heavy frost and drought.
As already mentioned, just cut, it will grow again. Trim it to any shape you like, seeing as you may not remove it. Why split it into more plants? I thought you did not want the plant at all, so why do you want more? Just take a good look at it, and decide to cut off this branch on the right, and then look again and cut off this branch on the left, and then to balance it out cut off a few more branches and it will be smaller in no time.
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