Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Look what I found today!, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
EF,

I went the last hour of the show last night and got a few pictures. If you've been to one of the shows, then you've been to them all. I haven't downloaded the pictures yet so not sure how they will come out. Personally I think the dead of winter is the wrong time to have a flower show and certainly isn't a great time to show begonias. The light is always dim at these venues too but it doesn't matter where you are - every convention I've been to always has dim light (for pictures). Anyway I entered seven begonias and got some 3rd place and honorable mentions. Some that won I'd be hard pressed to give an explanation why they won but it doesn't matter - I enter them to help get people interested in the darn things.

Here is one I entered - Plum Gorgeous and I don't think it won a thing.