Last weekend I noticed that the fuchsia in the pot in the front was already putting out shoots. 
So knowing that once I’d had my next infusion I would have to keep in the warm I decided that I had better do some pruning.
I also have a Mrs Popple fuchsia in the back garden that I have shown you before in flower. 
And you can see it in the front of this picture 
And here it is pruned. 
I think last year I pruned it back even more because it does grow so big, but it was cold in the garden and I didn’t want to kill it so I was cautious.
I was also cautious with the one in the pot at the front. 
This is a variegated one: grown from a cutting take from the one in my younger daughter’s garden. 
Smaller flowers and I think you can just see what the leaves are like.
Apart from the need to prune them every year, hardy fuchsias are very easy plants and flower for ages over the Summer and early Autumn.
Snow!!
We don’t often get snow in Southampton but we were promised it for Thursday (today) and when I woke up there it was.
All these photographs have been taken from indoors in the warm.
Not maybe yet enough to make a snowman (unfortunately I won’t be going out to do so even if we get more. 😦 ) 
The daffodils and crocus I photographed last week are suffering. 
The Lenten Roses even more as far as I could see. Maybe even dead. I couldn’t bear to photograph them.
And here is the pruned fuchsia now. 
No worse for the snow as far as one can see.
Rainbow Junkie 
You have such a pretty garden and you do well to stay indoors. We have a lot of snow now, but it’s the wind that is so cold and is blowing everywhere.
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Yes glad really that I can stay indoors. I am really hoping the snow doesn’t last for ages. I hate walking on snowy/icy pavements.
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Flurries of snow here – but I’m cosy – you stay cosy too. 🙂
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Enough to think of building something now! 😦
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I’m confident your Lenten Roses will bounce back if established – they are made of strong stuff!
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I only planted them last year but they were growing strongly before the snow, Don’t think they’ll recover for this year though, even if the plants survive for next.
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I didn’t realise that fuchsias were so hardy. Maybe it’s time to consider getting one of my own. Goodness knows the orchid didn’t like me, the poor thing died a nasty and slow death.
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There are hardy fuchsias and not hardy ones. I don’t know how they would stand up to the South African climate, nor where they come from originally. They grow wild round Ireland. So British cold winter won’t kill them, they should regrow from the roots, apparently, but when I had non-hardy ones lack of water killed them.
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Lack of water. Right, point taken 😦
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