This Sunday may be the last time I give my mom a Mother’s Day fuchsia basket, my go-to gift for most of the past 35 years. It makes me sad. Nearly 93, Mom is moving into a retirement/assisted living ...

SEATTLE — Fuchsias are popular in hanging baskets, but can also give plentiful splashes of color throughout your garden. Gardening guru Ciscoe Morris explains the secrets to making them thrive. If you ...

Near the end of June, tomato plants will need secure stakes as they reach for the sky and become heavy with fruit. Tomato cages may work for shorter growing plants called determinate varieties, but ...

Some questions are perennial (and that isn't a pun). One of them is how to plant a basket of 2-inch fuchsia starts and come up with one of those huge hanging baskets swinging with hundreds of blooms.

T hink of fuchsias and for most the imagination doesn’t travel farther than a Mother’s Day hanging basket. Resources Greater Seattle Fuchsia Society Meets second Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at St.

Nurseries are well stocked for Mother’s Day, and fuchsia hanging baskets are great choices for spots in the shade in Western Washington. The Olympian The end of June is a good time to fertilize your ...

When weird weather makes good garden flower choices tough, consider fuchsias. These once-humble plants have come a long way, and many of these colorful creatures boast foliage every bit as handsome as ...

Question for Dan Gill: 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 ...

I grew up on the East Coast. It was too hot in the summer to really grow great fuchsia, but that doesn’t mean that my father didn’t try with some modicum of success. So by the time I came to Alaska, I ...

Retail flowers are a rough business and times are tough. This spring's cold and wet weather has been miserable for the weekend gardener and, worse yet, plant sellers. Customers don't take kindly to ...

Near the end of June, tomato plants will need secure stakes as they reach for the sky and become heavy with fruit. Tomato cages may work for shorter growing plants called determinate varieties, but ...