Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #113, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Deb, my silvery begonia is 'Looking Glass' and I have a little start of it rooted if you'd like it. It's a tall, sprawling one that gets long canes. (see pic) The little silver/white that Alice sent us is 'Don Miller' and it stays a nice small, shrubby size.

I'm really having fun with the begonias, as they seem to do well in my shady side border area. I keep them in pots and sink the pots into the leafy mulch so they don't have to compete with the oak tree roots. Didn't do that with my Gryphons, and they are struggling now. But I have new cuttings of them started, too.

Thanks again, Alice, for the nice starts, and now I know which is which of Sophie Cecile and Corallina du Lucerna. They have just put out new leaves in the last couple of weeks, so I'm thinking the slips didn't make roots in the hot weather as well as the others. But they will be well on their way by next spring when I want to plant them out.