An excellent Fuchsia cultivar, award-winning Fuchsia 'Genii' (Hardy Fuchsia) is an erect medium-sized deciduous shrub with handsome, small, golden leaves. Blooming from early summer until the first frosts, the single, small to medium flowers feature narrow, elegantly up-curved cerise sepals, a slender cerise tube and reddish-purple petals. The luminous foliage and lovely pendant blossoms make this flowering shrub sparkle and stand out in the garden. Versatile, it can be trained as a standard, grown as a specimen plant in the border or a container. Perfect for small gardens.

• Recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society.
• Grows up to 2-3 ft. tall (60-90 cm) and 18-24 in. wide (45-60 cm).
• A full sun to part shade lover, this plant is best grown in moist, fertile, well-drained soils. Provide a deep winter mulch and shelter from cold drying winds.
• Plant as a specimen or in small groups. Perfect for beds and borders, wall-side borders, cottage gardens, coastal gardens and containers.
• In early to mid-spring cut back the previous year's flowering stems to within one or two buds of the older woody framework. Also remove any thin, weak or dead growth. This stimulates development of strong new growth on which flowers will be produced in late summer.
• Propagate by softwood or semi-hardwood cuttings
• Watch for rust, capsid bug and caterpillars.