Beginner Gardening: Oldbies - Part 1, 1 by stormyla

stormyla wrote:
Sue, I was wondering too. I'm going back next week and will ask the owner. I went there to pick out a yellow Clivia, a Christmas present from my DSO. He had a few that he'd grown from seedlings of one he acquired in 1964. There are lots of giant old tropicals growing there.

It's near a feed store that special orders things for me. I stopped in last week and saw a giant Begonia that I wanted a baby of. He had none potted, so he broke off two babies and gave them to me. It was 3' tall and 4 to 5' wide. Here's the Begonia: