Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Lets liven things up a bit, shall we., 1 by begoniacrazii

begoniacrazii wrote:
I searched through my greenhouse and couldnt find Mrs Ludwig. BUT we have it down at the arboretum, one Brad sent me I think. Cant remember where it came from since Mike sent me some too. I'll take that lasagna any day! Yum! PHOE's Cleo looks great! My 'Littie Cleo' is doing well. I need to take some more photos in the greenhouse while we have this fog. I think it makes for good lighting.

I came home from the arboretum sale with a few new begonias. 'Fairy Wings' a caudiform type, another Little Brother Montgomery since mine bit the dust a while back, a few more of the upright jointed kind but can't recall the names off hand (I left my purchases down there since I didn't want to leave them in my car all day, It was my son's 14th birthday and we played in SFO all day, shopping and wandering Market street etc, then Sushi for dinner)
I also bought a huge 'Bess' and another b. gehrtii. I have a nice one, but my little one is doing the nose dive.

I also found a nice ping and a very cool impatiens. First time it's been offered to the public. I'll take photos on Wed. when I go back down there.

Here's another I got at PHOE, no idea who it is(never had a tag and I forgot to ask Tim), but it's profuse bloomer and had army green leaves with a metallic sheen to them. Hard to capture it though.