What's New

• Read Rekha Morris' fascinating description of propagating on moist paper towels. She wrote this account after reading Bill Claybaugh's article describing the method in the Begonian. 
• Also read about the Save Our Species program and adopt a begonia species of your own.
• Begonians from 1959 through 1979 are now available on DVD! Buy a copy today!

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• Come join us in Houston for the 2008 ABS Convention. The Sheraton Brookhollow has extended the special rate. Register now!
• Read about the daily schedules to see what trips and seminars are planned.
• Print out and mail in the registration form. 

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• Thanks to Howard Berg for providing us with Curtis's Botanical Magazine Prints and Jack Golding for providing citations for each. More to be added later.
• Give us your comments and suggestions. We'd love to hear from you!

Begonia of the Week

Check out people, places and begonias at past conventions.

• 2007 in Los Angeles
• 2007 SWR Oklahoma City
• 2006 in Miami
• 2005 in Dallas
• 2004 in San Diego
• 2003 in Oklahoma
• 2002 in Houston
• 2002 in Houston II
• Australian Photos
• 2008 Australian Convention Photos

Welcome to the American Begonia Society

     Hard to believe that the year is almost half over and my pruning still isn’t done. I have big plans for this week on getting to some of it. I won’t promise to get it all done but I hope to get most of it done. New growth is popping on all the ones I have done and there are new green leaves on the rhizomatous. Be sure and remember to fertilize. I use Grow More 20-20-20 and I fertilize every time I water with a Syphonex. Many times I am asked how much to use? A 3" plastic pot is about 1/4 strength and I use that every time I water in a 5 gal bucket filled with water. I start in March or April,  all depending on the weather and stop usually in November. I live a little inland so starting time is different in all parts of the country. When the weather starts to warm is when you should start to fertilize and when it stays cool stop.

    The week after next is convention time in Houston. I am really looking forward to it because we usually have a ball in Texas. Matter of fact we have fun where ever the conventions are. One year we almost set a restaurant on fire, but I will leave that story for another time. I hope to see many of you there.

     Isn’t Julie doing a terrific job with this web site. There are so many beautiful pictures, and she is adding new information all the time. I really enjoy doing the puzzles too. I hope everyone checks back every so often to see what is new. 

                                                                      Enjoy,                                                   

                                                      Mary Sakamoto, President, American Begonia Society, 2007-2009