Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Dancing Girl, 1 by begoniacrazii

begoniacrazii wrote:
Yes on the San Miguel! We've spent the last month or so doing begonia inventory at the arboretum. Then I've been entering it into a database that another volunteer had started a few years back and trying to improve on the way the info is listed. So been busy doing that and have had several design projects I have been working on. One was a music CD design (you know the booklet and inside tray graphics etc) that took a big chunk of my time. Not to mention that annual migration to the greenhouse that I tried to space out over several days instead of "the all-night panic it's gonna freeze tonight migration."

I think that looks like a baby Pollux that hasn't split yet? But you know Pollux so if it isn't then I believe it's a noid rex type that I picked up locally (seems like the real name had 'Boy' in it like 'Blue Boy' or something like that?? but I have no idea) . Not sure if you followed that thread about Cottage Gardens growing out Joan Coulot's collection but it may be one of hers. That grower still does not label their begonias but with the help of Paul T and some others, many were ID'ed at the nursery.

the rex I was referring to is in the ball terrarium http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2974752

Went to Morris Meuller's house not long ago (be green with envy, that man has some serious collection!!) Paul T took me over there after the Sac show and sale and Morris turned me loose in his prop house and said help myself. Well after I fainted and regained consciousness, I came home with yet another B. brevierimosa, B. incisa, B. bipinnatifida, 'Holly's Marvel, U168, 'Red Sceptre', some obscure Chinese species and two bulbs of the coveted B. taliensis. so far one has come out of dormancy. the other is just sitting there.

I recently got a leaf of B. quadrialata subsp. nimbaensis that I though wouldn't make it but it has new growth! Woo hoo! So I read alot here, but haven't had time too much to post. CD project is done, for now and I'm down to some small advertising projects that are not too time consuming.

(photo is of Morris' B. taliensis mother plant)


p.s. did I send you the curly beefsteak? (B. erythrophylla helix?) I dont remember! (p.s. check your dmail)