Re: Winter blooms - Vancouver Island

There is a fellow here who sells a synthetic cougar urine as a deer
repellant but like anything you do with the deer, they get used to it,
then ignore it.  Our property is impossible to fence due to the
driveway on one side and the beach on the other.  There was a cougar
around here all last winter.

The magellanicas withstand a lot of cold.  Extreme cold will freeze
them to the ground or the woody trunk but they grow back.
(You may notice that I have been fumbling around with the spelling of
'Fuchsias' - I believe this is correct)

Cheers,
Diane


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason D"

> I believe the Brazilian F. campos-portoi is quite
> winter-hardy, native at quite high elevations. I may
> be wrong about the species name, but I remember one of
> those Brazilians takes hard-freezing winters.
> re Deer: We need to get you some cougars. ;-)
> Anyone?
> -Jason
>
>
> --- Otter Point <otterpt@macn.bc.ca> wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > The ones that are blooming now are F. magellanica
> > and F. 'Double Otto'
> > and they bloom until frost - which we haven't had
> > yet.  I have three
> > of the former and with support through the rose
> > arbor, one of them has
> > canes arching over the top of the 10-foot arbor
> > because we haven't had
> > a really cold winter for years to freeze it back.
> > It usually takes a
> > heavy frost to stop them blooming.  The 'Alba' form,
> > F. magellanica
> > var.molinae, is supposed to be the hardiest of the
> > fuchias but stops
> > blooming when cool fall weather sets in - it is a
> > shy bloomer anyway.
> >
> > 'Double Otto' is especially liked by the deer
> > because the new growth
> > is thick and fleshy and they seem to eat the
> > branches when they are
> > covered with dangling unopened buds.  The flowers
> > are huge on this -
> > possibly as big as fuchia flowers get?  It forms a
> > strong woody trunk.
> > I moved it this year so cut it back to 4 feet but
> > will get it up there
> > again out of the deer's reach.  (I grow about 70
> > roses in the same
> > manner - out of the deer's reach through one
> > contrivance or another!)
> >
> > I don't grow any of the tender fuchias.
> >
> > Diane Pertson
> >
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