Add bold contrast and long-lasting color to your garden with Fuchsia ‘Checkerboard’, a striking hardy variety known for its elegant, two-tone blooms.

This eye-catching plant produces pendant flowers with crisp white sepals and vivid red corollas, creating a true “checkerboard” effect that stands out in containers, borders, and shaded garden spaces.

Blooming continuously from late spring through frost, it’s also a favorite of hummingbirds, butterflies, and pollinators.

Why Gardeners Love It

• Unique red & white “checkerboard” flowers
• Long blooming season (spring through fall)
• Attracts hummingbirds & pollinators
• Great for containers, patios & shaded borders
• Easy-care perennial once established

What You’ll Receive

• Quantity: 1 live plant
• Size: 1-gallon pot (well-rooted and ready to plant)

Plant Details

• Botanical Name: Fuchsia ‘Checkerboard’
• Plant Type: Hardy Perennial / Small Shrub
• Height: 2–3 ft
• Spread: Up to 3 ft
• Flower Color: Red and white bicolor
• Bloom Time: Late spring through frost
• Light: Partial sun to partial shade
• Hardiness Zones: Typically 6–9 (with protection in colder areas)

Care Instructions

• Light: Partial sun to partial shade
• Water: Keep soil consistently moist (do not let dry out)
• Soil: Rich, well-draining soil
• Pruning: Trim after flowering and cut back in late winter
• Winter: Mulch in colder climates for protection

Tip: Perfect for hanging baskets or containers where blooms can cascade

Perfect For

• Hummingbird & pollinator gardens
• Cottage garden designs
• Containers & hanging baskets
• Shaded borders & woodland edges
• Long-season color displays

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.