Ooops! I have just noticed the first one has not been rotated! I should also say that the small plants at the base are climbing petunias...planted to twine around the fuchsia stems....just in case nothing else happens!

Thank you...

Soryr to say it looks dead to me - I'd be inclined to cut it down to the base to see if that will induce growth from the roots.

Do you cut the plants down at all Izzy? It looks as if you don't from the photo. I take all my fuchsias down by at least half before over-wintering in a frost free place, and then down again when repotting in the spring. Some have been a bit slow to restart this year but are ok now and a very few I have given up on as lost in the very cold winter.

It's hard to account for the difference in yours though. Having said that, the same has happened with 2 plumbago, both cut back and stored the same way, one was straight into leaf even before I repotted it. I thought the other was dead but it's now chuntering away happily though somewhat behind the other.

I think if it were my fuchsia I would cut it back although it's perhaps getting a bit late now

Edited to add: Ah Bamboo - I see we crossed in the ether!

So why are the stems still green, Bamboo? There are tiny, closed leaves along the stems but it is as though they were "frozen in time"!

Well I don't know, Izzy - what I do know is there's plenty of strange plant behaviour about at the moment - I have some plants which had flowered and more or less finished this time last year that are still sitting in bud, yet others, like my jackmanii clematis, started flowering mid May, when it should be end of June onwards. I suspect the weather conditions during the last 9 months have caused problems, particularly the more recent wild fluctuations in temperature in the last couple of months. Cut the stems down by half to see if that wakes it up.

Thought you would say that, Bamboo! Ah, Cestina! I cut all the others back, in the ground, but left these two in pots uncut...to see what would happen! I think you are right.....one was fine and the other is doing nothing....so maybe I should cut it back, even now! So you have both given me the same advice...thanks both!

I am sure Lady Boothby was not in flower this time last year though!
I have planted 6 clematisduring the last few weeks. The Clematis Montana 'Elizabeth' is romping away as is the Jackmanii superba but the Multi-blue, the Ernest Markham and the Nelly Moser are much, much slower...?

I dont usually get flowers on mine till early july.
I would cut it down to a couple of inches from the base and see if that 'encourages' the plant to shoot. Both of mine lost about 2/3rd of top growth but doing well.

Yep!...think that is the only way to go. Thank you again good folks!

Have you thought of checking the roots to see if there are vine weavil grubs munching away at the roots, (just a possibility). It's happened to me in previous years.

Just seen this Rohima...been in school all day! I didn't actually think of vine weevils in this case....probably because all the others are in various stages of growth! DURRR!

I'll look in the morning...I am too shattered tonight!

Thank you!