| If you want enchanting flowering gardens for shade, | | | | are cool and the winters sufficiently moderate; but |
| rely on the fuchsia plant. Whether you plant fuchsia | | | | fuchsias make handsome container gardens in other |
| flowers in individual pots, window boxes, or hanging | | | | climates too. |
| baskets, fuchsia plants are a gorgeous flowering | | | | Except for the hanging types, the fuchsia flower is |
| species noted for their grace and splendor. There are | | | | by nature an upright shrubby grower, fine as |
| hundreds of varieties of fuchsia flowers, single and | | | | specimen plants for container gardens. Under proper |
| double, in rose, purple, and white shades, and in both | | | | conditions, some attain considerable size. The dark |
| upright and hanging plants. Fuchsia plants are | | | | purple-and-red Reiter's Giant grows to five feet or |
| particularly popular in California, where the summers | | | | more, and the single red Mephisto is even taller. |