What is this flower? I have no pics, but it's easy to describe. I bought...
I have no pics, but it's easy to describe. I bought them contained by hanging baskets in Southwestern PA. They both hold pointy, slightly serrated, shiny dark green leaves, and the bloom starts as a ball, consequently opens to four shiny, thick petals (one plant have hot pink outside petals, the other has pale pink) and inside is a bloom that looks almost resembling an avocado, or a chick-and-hen or something; it's stacked and has 2 or 3 layers of petals. The bloom is low purple in both plants. About 3 or 4 stamen poke out of the center of each bloom. The blooms don't ultimate very long, but the plants re-bloom constantly.
I have two, and one is thriving, and the other is literally, half-dead--one partly of the plant is looking great, and the other half is all dry and inert. Strange. They are placed within two feet of respectively other!
Can anyone help tell me what these plants may be, and how I should be gentle for them?
Sounds resembling a Fusia plant.
Fuchsia plants should be well watered and fertilized regularly during the growing season, but kept just moderately moist and minus fertilizer during the cooler months when they are resting. Sounds like a cleome it keeps flowering going away little pea pod like things hanging looks spidery those pod when they dry pop overt and spread seeds like crazy .
Answers: fuschia
here's a pic: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/35272...
