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Does my plant have a fuchsia?

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  Posted by Cillit Bang (U14908374) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  Please excuse the gag, I have a weakness for puns.
  
  I had a bit of a rush of blood yesterday. I bought a large planter for the front of the house, and decided to dig up a reasonably well established fuchsia and put it in the planter. Will it live? How can I help it live? I tried to get as much of the roots out as possible, but may have snapped a couple of smaller ones. The planter is about 18"x18"x5'.
  
  I've done quite a bit of grow your own, but I'm completely new to the more decorative aspects of gardening. I'm now worried that I've killed a fairly decent plant because I didn't have the patience to post this question in advance of the deed

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  Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  You should have waited-when you say you dug it up I am assuming it is a hardy one from the garden?
  
  It would have really been advisable to hold off until you started seeing some growth around March/April-you just might-might-get way with it -only time will tell-they are completely dormant at this time of year so no way of knowing just yet.
  
  Sometimes even growing plants do not like a move-I would never transplant anything in mid-winter

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  Posted by AlinaW (U2220240) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  I wouldn't worry - I've transplanted a very large hardy fuchsia (neighbour was getting rid of it) and it transplanted very well, even though it was treated badly when being dug up. If you took a good-sized rootball it should be fine.

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  Posted by Cillit Bang (U14908374) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  Thanks for your replies. It did have a decent sized root ball, and it actually had a little bit of new growth as well (crazy weather this year). I'll have to wait and see, hopefully it will be a success.
  
  To further throw my gardening ignorance out there, I also planted some leftover daffodil bulbs in the planter around it in the hope of a late bloom!

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  Posted by kate1123 (U14824475) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  I did this last year with snow drops and obviously forgot about them, somehow every planter has got one solitary snowdrop in it. When they have finished flowering I will have to gather them up and move them to a new location.

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  Posted by AlinaW (U2220240) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  Providing that the daffodils hadn't been somewhere hot and dried out, they should be absolutely fine. Make sure that the planter doesn't dry out - the bulbs do need moist (not soggy) soil.

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  Posted by Cillit Bang (U14908374) on Tuesday, 13th March 2012

  It lives! I noticed some new growth has appeared this week. I am really pleased about this, I think it will look good where it is. Now I have to hope that it's got enough root room to survive.
  
  No sign of the late planted daffodils though, I think they might be duds.

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