With the frost slowly retreating and the first hints of green peeking through garden soil, it's time to grab your pruning shears and start one of the most rewarding tasks of the early spring gardening ...

Carlyss Van Ness remembers the first one. She spotted it at a nursery near Freestone – a flowering plant so pretty it simply had to come home with her. That was 1970. She has babied that plant for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fuchsia plants are one of the most unique flowers home gardeners can grow. While they come in a few different colors, the most ...

Fuchsia is known for producing dozens of brightly colored dangling, teardrop-shaped flowers from trailing stems from spring through fall. They are a staple in hanging baskets and thrive in partial ...

Here are two words that most gardeners wouldn't use to describe the same plant - fuchsia and groundcover. But that's exactly what the charming Fuchsia procumbens is and wouldn't you know it, it's a ...

Hardy fuchsias are spectacular plants that offer endless flowers. These beauties can vary in height from a short groundcover to a seven foot tall shrub. Their blooms come in an array of colors. Aside ...

I grew up on the East Coast. It was too hot in the summer to really grow great fuchsia, but that doesn’t mean that my father didn’t try with some modicum of success. So by the time I came to Alaska, I ...

21:44, Mon, Jul 20, 2015 Updated: 22:11, Mon, Jul 20, 2015 There are hundreds of varieties to choose from, almost all excellent for one reason or another. Here are six of the best tender fuchsia that ...

What is it? You'd think this was a tricky tropical number, likely to cringe at the slightest dip in the thermometer. Yet 'Hawkshead' is a pretty tough shrub: it will thrive in a sheltered spot in most ...

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