The possibilities for winter storage are:

The correct place for winter storage of your Fuchsias are the place where there´s cool, airy, not to dry and good light conditions but since Fuchsia is a shrub (deciduous) it can also be stored in a dark place for the whole winter.

Wooded Fuchsia can be placed in a greenhouse that is prepared for the winter with a suitable amount of worming help as bubble plastic and a little heater for the frosty nights.

Herbaceous Fuchsia (young plants) must be placed in a warmer place, at 10° C (as Thriphylla types).

For both ways of winter storage two things must follow each other – light and warm, it they are not matching the only result will be that the plants will be sad and lanky to look at.

Remember: Thriphylla types must always be winter stored at 10° C together with the young plants. For wooded plants as close to 0 ° C as possible.

The winter 2002 I learned a lesson: All young plants made as cuttings summer / early autumn must keep their coat (their leaf) on for the winter… so be sure that the plants you are stripping are old enough.

Below I have listed some places for winter storage – I have not tried them all, but one has to be open minded and amenable to advice from others so therefore I also give their advise to you…

which many has done that with good result, but the temperature must not exceed 7-8° C, if the temperature comes over that the lightning must also be raised. I have used this method for several years and in my cellar half of the plants manage to survive the winter down there. The up stemmed and the bushy types was the types that managed best there, the baskets managed not so well and the young plant didn’t like it at – my guess is that it was to cold and dark.

can be used – if the stairs are not to be used for the winter because you must cover the cellar stairs with bubble plastic or glass, and perhaps also one layer with isolating glass wool during the coldest period. If possible, you can open the door from the cellar out to the stairs for the coldest nights to add some worm from the house.

can be used, but s not quit as suitable, because Fuchsia will during storage in patios be hold in growth for the winter and after my opinion Fuchsia needs the winter storage to rest. Besides that a lot of people does not pay attention to that the cold is sneaking up along the foundations when there’s is a longer period of cold and frost, of course one can avoid that by placing flamingo boxes around the plants. But it’s not easy to control the temperature in a patio because the sun will at daytimes be high when there’s a little sun outside and at nights be very cold, and that fluctuation is not good for the plants.

can easily be used for winter storage of the loft is frost free and a loft is in particular very suitable if there's a big accessible window. Furthermore you can use the loft when you are starting up the Fuchsias early spring to make early cuttings.

can have third life in the garden. Dig it down in the earth, so that it’s not visible in the summer. Use it in the winter for storage of Fuchsia. Prepare the Fuchsia as normal, pack them in the freezer with a some old newspapers between each layer. But remember to put a newspaper between the shield and the lid and the grief, (to ensure the oxygen in the freezer).

is made upon the earth. The winter prepared Fuchsias must be placed very close together – leaves from the tree in the garden that has been fallen of for autumn is placed between the Fuchsia (as many as you can stack in between the plants) and then cover with approx. 30-40 cm´s earth.

is made under the earth just as we storage our vegetables or potatoes. Dig a big hole on 60-70 cm´s in profundity a place where there’s no water in the winter. Take in consideration that the subsoil water can damage the plants. Prepare the plants for the winter – spray them with a mixture of 1 part Atamon and 10-part water - put them in the hole and cover them with soil (the Spagnum I have mentioned before) which also must be very well staked between the plants. Then you can put some flamingo pieces over or some of the leaf from the gardens trees and then a lot of soil. Now you don’t have to think of your Fuchsia before April comes.

are very suitable for winter storage if only one remembers that the cold will slowly sneaks it way in along the foundations, so prepare the greenhouse with bubble plastic, flamingo or something like that. If you want a specific temperature in the greenhouse you can place heather’s in the middle of the greenhouse. In my greenhouse at 12 m2, I have a little electrical heather that always ensures the temperature on 4° C, and in the big greenhouse at 120m2 I have three different heaters that can turned on of needed. Two of the heat producing are paraffin heaters that can be set on a specific level and the third is an electrical heather for helping in very freezing nights. In the big greenhouse I always have at least 10° C.

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