Bee Friendly Flowers for Cutting

Are you too tidy, perhaps, and cutting off the flower stalks when they look straggly?

I’m going to be growing them for the first time this year. It’ll be interesting to see what happens up the road a bit from you   .

Well Veggie if I dared let my OH onto this forum she would die laughing at the thought of someone thinking I could be tidy never mind too tidy
Sc I think you should be OK growing them on Mull it's possible that the main cause of them not lasting the winter here is caused by amount of rain we get along with the cold, the growing conditions on Mull are completely different from here as was evident from the photos of the fuchsia recently

How much rain do you get then? We average over 100 inches a year.