Tropicals & Tender Perennials: The Ho-Hum dreary days of winter, 1 by begoniacrazii

begoniacrazii wrote:
Butch here's B. rajah you asked about. You know, it defoliated almost down to one nub of a rhizome so I'm surprised that it's come back like it has.
This is my biggie ball terrarium. It has B. U074 blooming in the front, (going counter clock-wise from U074) then B. rajah, hiding just under a leaf is B. quadrialata subsp. nimbaensis, the strappy leaf one in the back is either B. herbaceae or another B. vellozoana, and B. ficiola.

That B. U074 came from the Miami show almost a year ago. I grew it in an orange juice cup from a bakery across from my hotel for about 9 months and it was happy as a clam. Then I moved it to this ball terrarium and it just about died. It had one rhizome left and the leaves were melting like snow. So I trimmed a few back and stuck them into the sphag and what you see is what came up from those few leaves. It just pouted about being moved I suspect. Here's what is 'should' look like (someday! I can always dream can't I?) http://swregion.tripod.com/uxxx/spic_uxxx/U074MT.jpg