Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #115, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Alice, the soil in all my shady areas is quite acid and the Gryphons did fine (you saw my many brag pictures of them this summer) until the tree roots re-invaded the bed they were in. I think begonias like acid soil just fine. But they can't compete for moisture and fert with anything else. Hence the sunken pots.

My big mama plant of 'Looking Glass' had a little rest when we had a few cold nights in November but it is sending out new leaves like mad now. I'm giving it half-strength fert so as not to encourage it too much when there's still the possibility of cold weather. All my little starts from you are going into big pots in the ground come February.

This weather seems too good to be true, hard to imagine this is what we took for granted as a 'normal' winter up until 2009.