Autumn is here, the leaves are turning golden and falling, and I'm winding things down in my garden for the winter. I hibernate in winter. The hanging baskets filled with
Swingtime and Southgate fuchsias have been simply grand, flowering from spring until now and they are still flowering and will probably do so until the frost kills them. If I let the frost kill them, which I won't. I have to keep dead heading, or at least picking off the seed pods which rapidly form as the flowers begin to fade. It's been quite a job and if you don't catch the seed pods young, then you end up with something like you can see in the below images.
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| Fuchsia seed pod and leaf |
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| Fuchsia seed pod |
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| Fuchsia seed pod |
According to the seed people,
Thompson and Morgan fuchsia seed pods are edible, along with a whole load of other flowers and seeds. The
RHS confirms that fuchsia seed pods are edible.
