A Christmas treat, I think that some of you might appreciate?

It is the display of Bonsai Fuchsias at the North East Counties Fuchsia Group Fuchsia Fantasia (Festival) on 4th and 5th September 2005 at Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe.

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Thanks so much for posting the pix.
Rose

Just a little Triphylla photo to brighten up your ‘white out’ – this is a nice one called ‘Gottingen’

And remember ‘A Rose by any other name could be a Fuchsia’

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This photograph was taken at the British Fuchsia Society Autumn Show at Harrogate North Yorkshire in September last year. It was grown by Mal and Lesley Wilkinson and is of course ‘Firecracker’….

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They all have clusters of tubular flowers Rose, the length of each can vary greatly acoording to the variety, approximately from half an inch to several inches - Kath:)

Pleased that you liked the photograph, here is another that I took at the same show, this is ‘Adinda’.

I have added the link below so that you can see some of the diversity of the Triphylla types, from the really small ‘Timothy Titus’ to the long ‘Roos Breytenbach’ and all the others in between.

Hope you enjoy them

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The link is also wonderful. Are all those triphyllas as
easy to grow as the Gartenbonmeister?

Thanks again.

Once again I am pleased that you like the photo and the link.

Many of the Triphylla types are quite easy to grow in our climate, (not sure about yours) once again with the proviso that they are never allowed to get touched by frost. I personally grow about 7 or 8 different Triphylla types and I over winter them in a similar fashion to my other plants.

I have a couple of standards going at the moment which are only a couple of years old, in my opinion they are not at their best until they are at least 4 or 5 years and they have some girth to the stem. The one major problem with growing Triphylla as a standard is that they tend to want to flower on the leader and you then have to nip this out and allow the three new growths to develop from this stop. You then select the strongest growing new growth to use as the new ‘leader’ and remove the other two. The node where the growth came from will eventually blend into the stem. This process may need to be repeated a couple of time in the initial growing of the standard stem.

The head of a Triphylla standard is produced in much the same way as any other cultivar. The best I ever grew was a ‘full’ standard of ‘Thalia’ which was 6ft high by about 5ft across the head, the problem I had with this was transporting it to the many show that I used to exhibit at, even now when I get the new standards up and ready to show it is a logistical nightmare.

This is another photograph for you, it is of my good friend Mike Oxtoby’s Triphylla ‘Mary’, part of a display he put together at the North East Fuchsia Group Extravaganza held in September 2005.

If you want to see how Mike ‘trims’ his Triphylla take a look at the link below.

And we do this for FUN!!!!

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Sometimes we have to be SHOWN the WAY!!
Thanks much.

This is one of those occasions where you "pays your money and takes your choice".

It would be a good idea to keep putting the plant outside on any days that are nice and the temperature is reasonable, it doesn’t matter if it rains, this will help the new growths to break from stems. But be sure to bring it back indoors before it gets cold in the late afternoon.

Any new growth should be pinched back as early as possible as Triphylla need approximately 14 weeks to come into flowering from their last stop. I time mine for my first show of the year which is at the end of July and my ‘last stop’ will be in the middle of April to make sure they are flowering for then.

Some of this action may seem drastic to some and all I can say is that this plant….

Is now like this

And I am not worried in the least.

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