Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Blooms, almost November, or other garden pretties?, 2 by coleup

coleup wrote:
SSgardener, I overwinter my Dragonwings on my unheated porch along with my bananas ans EEs. I've done this with 10 pots for 8 yrs now and they do fine. Only light is from East facing picture window and they sit about eight feet from window. I only watered them once. They will drop leaves and get leggy but keep on blooming til they can go outside again. I usually trim them back in Spring and stick trimmings in same pot or start additional. I water them well and give time release fertilizer and in about 3 weeks they are looking pretty good again.

Read somewhere, that bringing in Dradon Wings (and other plants) may cause plant to drop its outdoor leaves and grow indoor leaves as a response to lessened light conditions indoors. I think Ric and Holly usually get 'plugs' of them thru their greenhouse association each year. Would that all plants could be as big beautiful and easy care as these!

I believe DWs are a hybrid cross between an angelwing and a fibrous rooted. Here's a little history
http://www.arhomeandgarden.org/plantoftheweek/articles/Begon...

Am hoping the begonias pictured below will do overwintering as well as DWs.