Fuchsia Summermelody Sunfilipe

Fuchsia SUMMERMELODY® 'Sunfilipe' is a small, floriferous hybrid fuchsia with an upright habit, very attractive in pots. This variety offers abundant red and white flowering that repeats throughout the summer. An excellent variety for balconies and patios!

This semi-woody perennial plant belongs to the Onagraceae family. 'Sunfilipe' is a cultivar from the Summermelody® series, attributed to the breeder G.G.G. Grünewald in the Netherlands, introduced to the market around 1999. The plant forms a small, branched clump, 35 to 45cm tall and 40 to 50cm wide. Its stems are flexible but not trailing. Its dark green leaves, opposite or sometimes in whorls of three, are ovate to lanceolate and finely toothed. The small flowers are single and pendulous, consisting of an elongated tube, red sepals, and a white corolla, more or less tinted with pink depending on the stage of opening. Protruding stamens escaping from the corollas enhance their delicacy. Flowering repeats from May to October. This fuchsia is not very hardy: it can tolerate at best very light, brief frosts, only if well protected. In most regions, it must therefore be overwintered in a bright, cool, frost-free room to keep it from year to year.

This fuchsia performs best in pots, containers, or window boxes, in a bright position without scorching sun, in a rich substrate that stays moist in summer. Place it where you often pass by: near a door, on a shaded terrace, at the edge of a balcony. In a large planter, you can plant it with other fuchsias: 'Swingtime', more opulent, 'Bella Laura', more flexible, 'Annabel', very pale, and 'Holly Beauty ' in a very pale pink.