Fuchsia Fuchsita Red Lavender

Common name: Fuchsia

Description: Fuchsia 'Fuchsita Red Lavender' is a charming, compact upright fuchsia in the Fuchsita series, bearing a generous and continuous display of elegant bicoloured flowers with scarlet-red tubes and sepals above a soft lavender-pink corolla throughout summer and into autumn. The bushy, free-flowering plants are well suited to patio containers, window boxes, and mixed summer planting schemes, providing a softer and more subtle colour combination than the classic red and purple.

Other benefits: continuous and prolific flowering, compact upright habit, softer pastel colour combination, excellent in containers

Wildlife attraction: Bumblebees and long-tongued insects visit the tubular flowers throughout summer.

Height & spread (approx.) at maturity: 30–40cm x 30cm

Position: Partial shade to full sun; shelter from the hottest afternoon sun.

Soil pH: Neutral; moist, fertile, well-drained compost.

Moisture: Water regularly and keep evenly moist. Feed fortnightly with a balanced fertiliser.

Winter hardiness: Frost-tender; plant out after the last frosts (mid-May in most of the UK). Lift or discard before the first autumn frosts.