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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] New Member Bio

They go dormant. You pretty much cut them back to bare wood. They look
like brown sticks until April or so.

Bobbi

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, earthspirit wrote:

>
> >
> >My current question for the group is, does anyone know anything about
> >growing fuchsias in my zone?  I think they would winter over in
> >our basement; my main concern is whether they could survive our hot, muggy
> >summers. ****Bobbi, they live all summer around here in hanging
> baskets....I would think that they would be happier in the ground than in a
> basket. I could see growing them in a large pot, so at the end of the summer
> all you'd have to do is dig up the pot rather than transplanting them from
> ground to pot. I don't know enough about them to know about the basement
> over-wintering thing though. Do you have lights down there? Or do they go
> pretty dormant? Jean B
>
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