Campo Molino Fuchsia

Description:

A sweet fuchsia variety featuring dainty red nodding flowers that contrast the mass of green foliage; very attractive to hummingbirds; a dense self supporting round shrub that has shown to be resistant to mites

Ornamental Features:

Campo Molino Fuchsia features dainty nodding red trumpet-shaped flowers along the stems from late summer to early fall. It's pointy leaves remain green in colour throughout the year. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Campo Molino Fuchsia is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen annual bedding plant with a more or less rounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance annual bedding plant, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Insects

Campo Molino Fuchsia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Accent
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Campo Molino Fuchsia will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 5 feet. Although it's not a true annual, this plant can be expected to behave as an annual in our climate if left outdoors over the winter, usually needing replacement the following year.

This annual bedding plant does best in partial shade to shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.