A hummingbird feeding on nectar from tubular fuchsia flowers - altzaga/Shutterstock Hummingbirds are such a pleasure to watch in your garden as they flit from flower to flower, looking for the ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Perennials: Hummingbird fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica) never stops blooming. As long as you live in a frost-free zone, you can grow it and although it may ...

I saw the most gorgeous fuchsias when I lived in the San Francisco Bay area, but years ago, I was told that we couldn’t grow them here because it’s too hot. I just couldn’t resist buying one two days ...

Carlyss Van Ness remembers the first one. She spotted it at a nursery near Freestone – a flowering plant so pretty it simply had to come home with her. That was 1970. She has babied that plant for ...