Rogers sneaks in to his wife's area of the garden to prune their Standard (lollipop) Fuchsia that has been left outside all through the winter.
Despite the cold frosty weather, there are green shoots of fresh spring growth - so Roger shows us how he prunes Fuchsias at this stage of spring.
Later in the video he also prunes and shapes a hardy bush Fuchsia, to create a nice neat dome of foliage and flowers.
We like to leave our pruning of Fuchsias until we can see plenty of new shoots; which means that, this year, we are not finally pruning until early May, because we have experienced some frost night in April, which might have damaged the new growth.
With a standard Fuchsia, there can be slightly more risk from cold weather over winter - if you have access to a greenhouse that would be the safest way to over-winter them in frost weather. We have to leave ours outside so have founds a warm south west facing corner up against the house where it gets a little warmer and it seems to manage there. Our variety of Fuchsia is 'Lena' and is rumored to be fairly hardy.
At the start of the video Roger also proudly shows off his patio pots with the gorgeous Orange Ballerina Tulips in full flower, gracefully dancing in the evening breeze, they are under-planted with cute 'baby faced' violas providing a rainbow of cheerful colours.

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