Rockin'^® Fuchsia Salvia hybrid

I bought this plant at the nursery last summer. I grew it in a pot and it did great! The hummingbirds were really attracted to it. I brought it inside for the winter and put it in a room without much sun because we were renovating the sunniest room in the house at the time. It lost all of its leaves as I expected, but I put it back in the sunniest room once we were done renovating. I only watered it a couple times a month, and it's now growing all of it's leaves back beautifully. Looking forward to another season of its beauty. We are in zone 6B in Michigan

Despite good potting soil amended with Espoma plant starter, these plants didn’t amount to much and pooped out in the middle of July - now one is completely dead, and the other looks poorly. These came in a “biodegradable” pot that said to leave it in there and pot it after pulling off the bottom. I don’t see any evidence from the top that the pot degraded, so I‘m wondering if that contributed to their demise. So disappointed, especially since I paid so much to have these shipped to my house

This plant is truly a rock star in the garden. Hit 105 here earlier this week and still looks amazing! In zone 9b is a perennial. So happy I added it to my garden. The pollinators LOVE it!

I can honestly say that this is one of my favorite plants. It flowered almost year round last year and hasn’t skipped a beat this year either. The hummingbirds can’t get enough of it- I had numerous other plants that are supposed to attract hummingbirds but this by far their preferred plant! I will say that it gets far larger than the size listed which doesn’t bother me, but if you have a strict space requirement, it might matter. The other thing is that I have 4 of them planted and I have several seedlings growing at the base of of each of them, so even though they are supposed to be sterile, mine are not 100% sterile. I’m not complaining though because I love getting a few unexpected extras of such an amazing plant!

Undoubtably a very good plant plant. However growers are using chemicals to stunt the plant for sales purposes. You get one extremely large flowering head on a tiny plant in a small pot, that no matter how hard you try it simply will not take off and grow into the shrub it's meant to be. The side branches do not develop only producing tiny trusses of buds that barely open. Once the large truss has finished the whole plant goes into decline. I do feel cheated when growers use chemicals to alter plants, often this is not reversible and the plant will not thrive as a garden plant. I couldn't even save the plant by taking a cutting and it was extremely expensive. I bought three in three consecutive seasons until I gave up, taking the last one to our government run nurseries where they informed me this was because of a chemical or hormone that stops the plant elongating and growing after the single flower truss has fully developed. I would also like to add that the information here on this site is not correct, the calyxes are not black, more like brown, also the flowers fade to a very much lighter pink, only maintaining the colour saturation for a day or so. Extremely dissapointed and I feel something should be done about this. Regard Anton Lambert