Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Begonias Anonymous - Attention Addicts and Enablers, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
I love "Dragon Wings" too. It is, to me, one of the most underrated flower in the garden.
I have had them now for 3-4 years. I usually dig them up, re pot them ans save them inside--but it is too messy and last year--I gave up on it.
I can get 6" pots of new ones here for $3.

3jsmom--
Yes! Great idea planting these outside. I bet they would look great as fillers in mixed containers....
Spider Plants are even sold at garden centers as "accent plants"--along with Asparagus fern, etc. Cost--about $3 too.

Butch--what gets me is when people buy "top soil" to work into their beds for planting. I know the name is deceiving---and I try to educate people any time I can when i see someone rolling a big flat cart with a pile of top soil bags and all kinds of flowers to plant along with it. I always ask, "What do you plan to do with all that top soil?"
If they say--fill some holes in my lawn--I let them go with my blessings. If they say--"Plant my flowers in it"--they get re-directed to bags of MG Garden Soil and also the Potting Mix--if they plan to do containers. I like to mix these 2 12/and 1/2 for containers. Just Potting Mix for containers is too light. It will dry out daily.

Here's a clump of mu Dragon Wings in a bed last summer....