Re-Potted Triphylla Fuchsia

Some plants grow all by themselves. Perhaps I should say 'ALL plants, left alone, grow all by themselves'. We growers create the problems. Surely not? Problems are created by moving plants from their natural environment and altering them to our liking. Then we can sometimes get bucketfuls of problems. This triphylla fuchsia is just one of mine. Nothing seems to have gone right since August.

After looking at it sitting there doing nothing for week after week since its last treatment , I decided water was not reaching all parts of the compost. So I emptied it out of its pot, removed the new compost - along with the few new roots grown over the winter - and re-potted it.

Of course, it turned out to be a futile gesture. The compost was fine. But what I want to show you are these new shoots which have developed from the leaf joints (nodes) on the old stems beneath the surface of the compost (I removed the top of this to expose the stems). These stems should help thicken the plant up a bit (at least, that's my story). Roll on summer.