@NorcalGma2@sfba.social Our summers are mostly too hot, though we do have a hardy fuchsia that does well in a shady area. I remember the summer we'd gone to the beach for a few days, and my father kept eyeing a fuchsia plant at the motel where we stayed. He snipped a few cuttings when we left, and potted them in coffee cans when we got home. A couple of summers later, he started making baskets out of scrap wood and giving them to friends. The first few years, they were all the bright pink and white ones from those cuttings he took at the beach. (Swingtime is the variety, I think.) In the early 1970's, he started getting different varieties at nurseries. When he and my mother retired and moved to northern Washington, he expanded his fuchsia-growing, and regularly won blue ribbons at the county fair.