Rhizomatous Begonias: Care
Bringing Your New Begonia Home…
Rhizomatous begonias are interesting plants: Spectacular…
Rhizomatous Begonias in the Ground
Southern Florida has a climate unlike that of most of the country. Here semperflorens are grown mostly as annuals during the cool season, reaching their peak in February. Tuberous begonias will not survive our summer heat. Among the distinctive big and colorful-leaved...
Growing B. lanceolata
Sometimes I’m amazed that B. lanceolata is not only alive, but thriving in my care. After all, it is one of those “difficult to grow” begonias and has to make it through our South Florida summers. It was given to me by a former member of the Miami...
Easy to grow: B. ‘Black Raspberry’
Very easy to grow and most charming is B. ‘Black Raspberry’. It always catches the eye of visitors, even those who do not grow any plants at all. Classified in the Thompson Begonia Guide as rhizomatous, medium leaved, entire-sub- entire, it was originated...
B. ‘Joe Hayden’
My infatuation with B. ‘Joe Hayden’ began sometime in the late spring or early summer of 1971. I remember walking past a flower shop on Third Avenue in New York City during a lunch hour. When I casually looked at the plants displayed in the store’s...
