Fuchsia Siglinde Rehbein – Fuchsia of the week 25/2014,

Posted by Siglinde on Jun 19, 2014 in Fuchsia of the week, Fuchsie der Woche | 0 comments

because i am celebrating my birthday this week!

I feel very much honored that the renown hybridizer Marcel Michiels from Belgium did name this Fuchsia 2011 like me, and i am really thankful to him!

 

3 years earlier he crossbred 2 of his own hybrids: Coen Bakker and Lut. The result is semi-hanging with large, dark green leafs. The sepals are white, the corollas are shimmering in different shades of crimson. The plant is growing firm, but does not branch out much of its own. Therefore it should be early cut back, to achieve a bushy  growth and to have more of these bulky, double blossoms, that are quite typical for Michiels-Hybrids of this millennium.

Otherwise one may let it grow without cutting back and will have- in result- a regular in short time.

Up to now i placed this fuchsia in half-shade, but this year i give it a try with more direct sunlight and watch how well the plants do adapt. I am quite curious about the outcome of this experiment , especially science i myself am quite sensitive to sunlight and get sun-burned easily…