Suggestions, please, on what you think works best when trying to propagate Gartenmeister bonstedt fuschias.

Fuschsia roots easily from cuttings. Just remove several sets of leaves and stick them in potting soil, put them in the shade and keep well watered. Some of the first cutting I ever took were from Gardenmeister.

Thanks, Ward! I will mail the dwarf Canna indica seeds tomorrow.

Patricia,
Everything that Ward said. They root very easily and they were also my first plants to experiment with.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Well, the hummers are ignoring these, the few that are around, that is, but I love them!!

If their are higher sugar content plants around they will ignore the fuschias but they are really nice in large hanging baskets or urn planters

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Yes, it is not a great hummingbird plant - pretty though. Thanks Patricia, as soon as bush sage seeds mature I'll harvest and send them - probably not until early July. Right now the sage row is 500 feet of dead stems, very worrisome, but there is hope.

Ward,

I was breaking the top branches from some of my Greggii "Wild things" and found shades of green in them. I think, they have survived the season. Hope things are good Palmyra.

Suchie

I love this plant and usually just have one or two hanging plants that I bring in and overwinter, cut they back and wait for their new growth - but it takes a while for them to bloom. I have tried rooting them and it works. Somehow though, I always like to buy a few early in the spring, for their fuller blooms than what I can get with my efforts..

Carol
Milford, CT
Zone 6

Suchiek, I have faith that your Wild Thing will survive and thrive. You aren't the only one who has broken off a few stem as a test. Even though it shouldn't be done it is impossible to resist. It looks to be a good Agastache winter, rather dry. If the new shoots last another 3 weeks all danger should be past.