We got our fuchsia on back in April and the rewards are starting to arrive already. I was able to overwinter my Swingtime fuchsias from last year and I am experimenting with using them as a curtain draped across the retaining wall this year.

We did the Fred Meyer fuchsia event this year, something I have long been oddly, obsessively interested in and that gave us a real early jumps tart in our hanging baskets. I tried out lots of different double fuchsias this time and I am happy to be able to compare and contrast them all this year. The first to bloom is Archie Owen, which has defeated my pinching and snuck in some blossoms already.

White eye (eww. Reminds me of pink eye) got jealous and hopped on the bandwagon next to Archie with some tight little red and white blossoms more typical of the term fuchsia.

It has been fun throwing in sweet potato vine or creeping Jenny with the baskets this year to bring out some of that chartreuse that makes the darker greens so intense and glossy. I happy I overcame my tendencies toward monoculture in my baskets!

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