Plant in part shade to full sun (coastal) and water regularly. It is cold hardy in USDA zones 9-11 and can be treated as a perennial that freezes to the ground in colder areas if well mulched.

Fuchsia 'Miep Aalhuizen' is a hybrid, created by Herman de Graaff in 1986 and released in 1987. It was an early example of the terminal flowering hybrids and was the result of crossing Fuchsia arborescens with Fuchsia venusta, though some list this plant as having Fuchsia paniculata parentage. The name for the genus honors the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).

This Fuchsia has has proven to be Fuchsia Gall Mite (Aculops fuchsiae), a tiny eriophyid mite from Brazil that devastated many Fuchsia collections worldwide after being first discovered in the Bay Area in 1984, at the Strybing Arboretum (now called San Francisco Botanic Garden) and was listed as such in the article "Fuchsias Risa Again in the Bay Area" by Pamela Pierce in the summer 2006 issue of Pacific Horticulture. It was because of this resistance to the gall mite that our longtime outside salesman John Koegler encouraged us to grow this plant and he provided the cuttings. We grew this nice Fuchsia from 2007 until 2011. 

This information about Fuchsia 'Miep Aalhuizen' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.