Balcony
Fuchsia
Fuchsia × hybrida
- Cat: not toxic
- Dog: not toxic
- Light: half shade
About the plant
Fuchsias come from Central and South America and are named after the botanist Leonhart Fuchs. They have hanging, two-coloured flowers; they like partial shade and moist soil and dislike both heat and frost.
Fuchsia and pets
- Cat
- not toxic
- Dog
- not toxic
The ASPCA entry is for Fuchsia triphylla; garden fuchsias are considered non-toxic.
Care
- Watering
- about every 2 days in summer (April to September), every 14 in winter
- Light
- half shade
- Air humidity
- high
- Temperature
- 5–26 °C
- On a balcony in winter
- does not stand frost (likes at least 5 °C): take it indoors before the first frosts
- Feeding
- April to August, every 2 weeks
- Repotting
- every 1 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
It likes half shade and moisture and cannot stand full sun. It winters in a bright, cool place (5–10 °C), hardly watered.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.