Fuchsia Dark Eyes

A cheerful addition to the summer garden, award-winner Fuchsia 'Dark Eyes' is an upright, bushy deciduous shrub with frilly red and purple blooms of great beauty. Blooming from early summer until frost, the medium-sized, double flowers feature red upswept sepals and a violet-blue corolla with rolled petals. Attractive to bees and hummingbirds, they stand out against the foliage of dark green leaves. This flowering shrub makes an excellent border plant in summer and can be grown as a weeping standard.

• Recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society.
• Grows up to 18-24 in. tall and wide (45-60 cm).
• A full sun to part shade lover, this plant is best grown in moist, fertile, well-drained soils. Provide a deep winter mulch and shelter from cold drying winds.
• Plant as a specimen or in small groups. Perfect for beds and borders, wall-side borders, cottage gardens, or coastal gardens or containers.
• In early to mid-spring cut back the previous year's flowering stems to within one or two buds of the older woody framework. Also remove any thin, weak, or dead growth. This stimulates the development of strong new growth on which flowers will be produced in late summer.
• Propagate by softwood or semi-hardwood cuttings
• Watch for rust, capsid bug, and caterpillars.