Identification Required Please

Padraigh Griffin

Hi, Can someone please identify these shrubs (type of fuschia?) and let me know when is the best time of year to prune them. Thanks in advance! 

Liriodendron

The lower picture looks like Fuchsia thymifolia, maybe.  Not sure if the top one is a fuchsia - it's not something I recognise; it looks as if it might be evergreen?

Whereabouts in the world are you gardening, Padraigh?  

Marlorena

Rare plants by the looks of things, maybe for west of Ireland, London or west Cornwall.

I would say Correa 'Ivory Bells' for the first, and Fuchsia microphylla for the second, which I've grown myself...  just a guess..

Padraigh Griffin

Thanks for replies!Both are evergreen and in flower currently. My garden is in South West Ireland. Very mild area. Both are doing well in well drained soil with a lot of sun but need some shaping. I wasted the white flowered one was an olearia of some sort but I'm not sure. 

Padraigh Griffin

Thanks for replies!Both are evergreen and in flower currently. My garden is in South West Ireland. Very mild area. Both are doing well in well drained soil with a lot of sun but need some shaping. I was told the white flowered one was an olearia of some sort but I'm not sure. 

Padraigh Griffin

Apologies for repost above.

It looks like you are right on the white flowered one Marlorena! After a quick look at some other pictures it appears to be a Correa 'Ivory Bells' as you suggested! Thanks

Marlorena

That's alright..  I've grown a few Olearias and whilst the foliage is similar, the small starry flowers on those are very different..   I used to live in West Cornwall, and grew these types of plants there..

The white Correa is quite rare, but I've seen the pink flowered one, I might have had it, can't remember... best wishes...

Liriodendron

Wow, it must be mild where you are, Padraigh, to have them in flower in February...  how lovely!  I'm afraid I have no knowledge of the best time to prune them in an area where they don't seem to have a real "rest period" as they would here (in the Pennines... actually, they'd be dead here, not just resting!  )  My guess would be spring, as they start into active growth.