Got any pictures of it Susan? Sounds like a must have.
Show your Blooming Canes
Butch, my plants are already in from Bonnie. Amazing, they were just mailed yesterday. They all look good, no worse for their trip. Will take pics today.
The Nellie Moser is already a good size plant. YOO-HOO !!!
Susan, yes please send a pic. I can't tell too much about the Orrell yet.
I hope this is the real Flamingo Queen, the spots don't look huge like I
thought they would be.
Jackie
Jackie,
Was that Nellie or Fannie? I never could tell those sisters apart.
Butch, that was a slip. I meant Fannie. I heard the name Nellie
long before I knew there was a Fannie.
Jackie
When my plants arrived yesterday, I unpacked and set them in the house
to cool down. By this am, My Spec Angel had dropped most of her lvs.
I think I should have asked for Sept delivery.
Fannie Moser, back left, My Spec angel front left
Flamingo Queen back center, Pink Minx front center
Orrell on the right
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Jackie, I'm glad to see your new canes. I may have to get Fannie now. Looks like it may be a big one.
You will love My Special Angel. I tried it once through mail order and lost it. Then I went to PHOE two years ago (and last year too) and bought 3 starts of My Special Angel ($3 a piece) and they grew so fast. Jim Wyrtzen and Orpha Fox were other buys but I don't even know if I still have either one now.
Butch, I know I will love Fannie Moser. I will let them all rest in the shade for
a week and hope that's the end of dropping lvs. In the spring, I want to order
more Begonia's from Bonnie. She called me yesterday to make sure they arrived safely. Great, friendly service. Rare these days.
Jackie
Butch, did you happen to take any pics of Orpha Fox? I would love to see
what she looks like. Off to vacuum, will check back later.
Here was Orpha two years ago. Not that spectacular if you ask me.
I like it Butch. Pretty leaf color.
Thanx for sending the pic.
Here is my 'Lois Burks'. I see it on eBay as Louis Burke.
Who's going to the big shindig next week?
Butch, I can't go but I know you'll have a great time. Where's Lali?
Wonder if she's going?
My Baccto lite does have spagnum peat moss and other materials. I potted
up 1 Begonia in it last night and so far I like it. Will see how it's doing
in a few weeks. I will still need my Fertilome for certain plants. Since Baccto lite
is a soil product, maybe I won't have to water as often.
Jackie
Jackie,
Never say "can't". It is a little late to make plans now but there is always next year. Start making plans. I suppose it will be in TX or OK next year (it seems like it rotates that way).
Lali is going. Unless things have changed recently. I can't speak for her but I can picture her arriving with "bells on her toes".
Let us know how Baccto works for you. I bought another 5 bags of Nature's Helper and potted up another dozen or so. I'm trying to get most of my rhizos to clay pots (out of plastic and into porous pots). Some of my newest ones are soaking wet being in all peat and plastic pots (we finally got a soaking rain a few days ago). Good thing I checked, else they may have rotted.
Here is one I potted up but I cannot remember the name. Pine cones and needles are pretty hard on the foliage but it does provide some "high shade".
Pretty Begonia Butch.
I may have to feed a little more with the Baccto.
It may not have any added food like some do, Miracle Grow and Fertilome,etc.
Be sure and take an extra suitcase and newspapers to wrap your
new plants in.
We'll all be eager to see what you find at the plant sale.
Jackie
This thread has really gotten me interested in begonias again. The other day I stopped in a nursery just to pick up some Superthrive and as I passed the end of the season sale table this one jumped up and said "Buy Me". It was reduced to $5.00, I couldn't resist.
Label says Looking Glass. A few of the leaves have crispy edges but overall it is in great shape for the price.
For $5 I would've jumped on that one too. My Looking Glass has never looked as good as when I first bought it. It can start looking good, then either it gets too wet or too dry and goes into a tailspin. I have a feeling that this is one that needs to be pampered in a greenhouse.
Here is mine when I had a greenhouse.
That is a beauty too. It may be the "too dry" that bothers it because I was traveling when I bought this and it was in the hot. dry car for a few days and the color became dull and pale. I have it in a spot that stays wet so there is a lot of humidity and where it does get water on a regular basis, it has really perked up for me but time will tell.
Finding the right conditions for it has been a challenge for me. My mother plant has the smallest leaves but a few I have propagated from it are a lot larger.
Now with all the rain we have been getting lately the leaves are getting ugly spots associated with a lot of thinner leaf canes (mallet types). This is not powdery mildew (another problem usually from cooler temps and stagnant air) but brown holes (probably from falling pine needles) and rotting leaf margins. I continue picking off the worst looking leaves and hope for the best.
LOL, folks from outside the southeast probably would not understand what weapons the falling needles can be; but, they are also a gift in the form of free mulch.
Up north they are known as pine needles, in much of the southeast they are pine straw but when I lived on the Delmarva Peninsula in MD they were known as pine shats. Go figure.......
I like to think of them as pine needles when they are falling or loose on the ground and pine straw if I buy bales of it for mulch. Pine shats - now that sounds almost lewd.
Pine needles are lightweights compared to the green pine cones though. I can hear those falling before they even hit the ground - thank goodness I haven't had the pleasure (or pain) of being hit by one (yet). I may have to start wearing a hard hat out to the back 40 "just in case".
I think it is those nasty squirrels throwing them at me in retaliation for letting the dog loose on them or firing some BBs at them.
The first time someone asked me when I was going put my shats out I replied "when I am I going to do WHAAAATT?????"
Yoo hoo! Lali's here. I've been crazy busy getting ready to go, car tuned up, new tires (old ones were bald), moving plants around so they get hit by the sprinkler and shopping for bells for my toes! LOL.
Can't hardly keep up with DG this week. Looks to be a great convention and the tours should be super too.
Ardesia, what does "shats" stand for anyway? It reminds me of when I moved from Norfolk, VA to rural TN as a teenager and I had to learn a new language (well, maybe not a language but certainly lots of local yokel buzzwords).
Hey Lali, glad to see you're still alive and kicking. I'm looking forward to this next week, too. I want to see those Shopping bells and of course the great tours.
Do you know if they are going to take credit cards at the sales booth this year or is it going to be cash or check like last year? That was a bummer but ATMs are always near (hopefully).
That's a good question, I don't know what form of payment they'll take.
I'm busy trying to find nurseries near the hotel so that in the down time (if there is any) we can go nursery hopping!!!
Beats me where shats came from. Maybe someone here is from the Eastern Shore and can fill us in. I could never make myself say shats and when I would go into the farm co op looking for a few bales I would ask for pine straw and they would say "well, we have wheat straw and rye straw......, it was hysterical.
Have fun at your meeting.
Lol Lali. Glad you've got everything ready. Don't forget the camera.
We enjoyed all the great pics you and Butch shared last yr.
Almost as good as being there.
Jackie
Anyone know what this cane is? Got it at HD a week or so ago. The leaves have a nice scallped edge and are about 4 to 6 inches long.
HD has been a pleasant surprise this year. I think most of their canes are products from NC farms (or American farms) but I can't find one close enough to match this. Here is a full view of this begonia.
http://ncfarmsinc.com/store/index.php?cPath=66_72
http://www.american-farms.com/text_plant_pages/begonia.htm
These pics are all just so gorgeous! Makes me want more! Here is a pic of Matchmaker that my mom bought for me this summer for my birthday. I can't get over how huge the leaves are.
And here is a pic to show how large the leaves are.
Matchmaker is a beautiful Begonia. Love the big bloom cluster.
Jackie
Clearly, I only have a Matchmaker midget - that one is beautiful!! :)
Just gorgeous, folks!
One could be quite satisfied growing nothing but Begonias.........so much beauty and diversity, and this is only some of the canes!
R.
This one is labeled Pink Shasta. Someone gave it to me in full bloom back in May and it is still in full bloom.
Beautiful photo.
Great blooms Sue. Please send a pic of the foliage.
Jackie