Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Dancing Girl Now, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Thanks Jackie for the interesting information about the Callaway estate. I thought since they are in the same area that maybe they were related. Just the name is the same, hmmm.

That tall begonia had a tag of salicifolia but I doubt that is correct. It is fairly common and from what pictures I see on the net, it looks more like a cultivar of albo-picta or 'Di-Erna'.

I see you survived your outing to WW. Three hours? Does this include trip time? Dreaded?

'Cowardly Lion' seems to do better with drier soil but high humidity. One of my CL dropped all its leaves last fall so I gathered the best 3, put them each in a plastic container with a damp paper towel where they sat for weeks. One didn't look good at the start so it became compost. The other two finally started to put on a bit of root but by the time I decided to do something, one of them started to rot. I took the remaining one and stuck it in a cup of potting soil. Here it is a few days ago.