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Is this dead or can I save it?

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SmurfPants · 04/05/2017 14:46

What do you think?

Bin or can it make a major recovery?

Is this dead or can I save it?
Is this dead or can I save it?
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MrsBertBibby · 04/05/2017 15:05

Keep it! Looks lively enough to me.

SmurfPants · 04/05/2017 15:23

Really?? Because it's looking very different from how it looked when I bought it last year! Sad

Any thoughts on how to revive it?

I can repot and feed, but should I prune it or anything do you think?

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olliegarchy99 · 04/05/2017 15:36

repot and feed. What is the plant? some need pruning (check it out on-line ) while others can keel over when pruned.
It is still alive - if you break off a small twig the stem will probably be green - a good sign Smile
good luck.

JT05 · 04/05/2017 15:45

A bit of a prune to just above a bud, feed and top dress the pot with compost.
It looks pretty similar to the one I saved from the sad plant section yesterday.

MissWilmottsGhost · 04/05/2017 15:54

That's clearly still alive Smile

Was it leafless over winter? Many plants are dormant over winter but start growing again in the spring. With a bit of food and water it will soon look like it did before.

Is it a salvia?

TheCrowFromBelow · 04/05/2017 15:57

If it's a fuschia mine turn to twigs over winter and flower amazingly every year. You can prune them back quite hard and they bush up again.

SmurfPants · 04/05/2017 16:46

Yes, I think it's a fuchsia. I've no idea what it did until winter as it's been hidden away from view over winter whilst we had our garden done.

I'm only now just inspecting the pile...

So, I think that pink bit is the only bud and it's at the end of the branch. Shall I just cut it down to neat little stubs, repot, feed and see what happens?

It used to be so pretty!

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pansydePotter · 04/05/2017 17:01

Fuschia flower on this year's woods. So cut back hard, repot in fresh Compost and it will be fine.

SmurfPants · 04/05/2017 17:05

Right, I will. thank you! Flowers

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pansydePotter · 04/05/2017 17:28

Once a week I would give it a week tomato feeed.

pansydePotter · 04/05/2017 17:29

Until it starts flowering

Previouslurker · 04/05/2017 17:57

Looks like fushia - at the end of summer cut it right down. Next year it'll grow like mad.😀

MintToBee · 04/05/2017 17:59

My fushias look like that too. They are definitely springing back to life after the cold frosty Scottish winter. Keep it.

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