Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Begonia 'Lana' has accidentaly proven its cold hardiness..., 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Several years ago I had huge pots of Caribbean King and Caribbean Queen. I left them outside a little too long - early November where we got a hard frost. That really set them back and it took 3 years or longer to get back to some big rhizomes. That same year I had Bayberry Lane that was easily 8 foot across (kind of leggy) and it was knocked back to six inches (it though is an easy begonia to propagate and could almost be considered weedy).

Here is what Caribbean Queen looked like after the big frost.