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. 

The information displayed on this page about Fuchsia 'Miep Aalhuizen' is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.