I came home from work yesterday to find this on my front porch:
Yesterday was the annual Fuchsia Day at Fred Meyer, where you can buy five fuchsia starts for $3. This is awesome because they plant them for you, and provide the potting soil for free! So I end up getting my three fuchsia baskets all ready for the season for a grand total of nine dollars!
But since I was at work, my next-door-neighbor Chris ran this errand for me!
And here are the baskets in all their shade-loving glory:
And a close up shot for all you Cecille D. DeMille fans:
Because they’re planted nice and early in the season, they’ll be all lush and drapey by the time they’re blooming.
Ahh . . .
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”
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I hit up Fuchsia Saturday too! I go to the Fred’s on 60-ish and Glisan every year. No lines!
The Hawthorne Freddie’s never has a line either.
Katy
I keep mine over in the garage each year, free but they always look scraggely and are late to bloom, maybe next year I’ll try Freddies.
I don’t think I ever saw a fuschia plant until this week at the produce market. They sell flowers, too. I got a pic for my blog but cannot post pictures right now.
Ooops, meant to say it is the most exotic and beautiful flower I have ever seen, bar none.
I am pretty enamored of their ability to thrive in deep shade.
Katy
I just planted our flowers for the season too! Filled up 2 hanging baskets and 3 railings for under $20. Nothing like seeing my perky petunias surrounded by allysium when I pull up in the driveway.