In spring garden centers stock a tempting variety of brightly colored tuberous begonias that are hard to resist. Gardeners have a tremendous choice of flower color in shades of orange, pink, yellow, ...

There are two ways to generate begonia clones. The first is to simply pluck a leaf from a plant, making sure to include the ...

If you don't want the arrival of fall to bring an abrupt end to your beautiful garden display, you can always grow plants that will stay around a little longer. There are a number of fall-blooming ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Begonia phantasma Tebbitt from the Begonia L. sect. Eupetalum (Lindl.) A. DC. (Begoniaceae) is described and illustrated as a new species ...

Where shade is a problem in the home landscape, consider the tuberous begonias and the fancy-leaved caladiums. Both are unsurpassed for creating a visual impact with their radiant color in the most ...

Gardeners either wax eloquently about the beauty and diversity of begonias, or throw them under the bus as temperamental and fussy prima donnas. There isn't a middle ground. But there’s no denying ...

We are thankfully at the point where "begonia" doesn't automatically mean bedding or tuberous varieties. And there's a good reason for that. Growers are trying to keep up with the demand for an ...

When I was in college, my mother, who spent the better part of 20 years trying to turn me into a gardener, gave me a potted shoot from her beefsteak begonia (Begonia ‘Erythrophylla’). It was a smart ...

The year was 1956. I was 8 years old and my family was on vacation on the California coast. We were traveling up Highway 101 and came to the town of Capitola, near Santa Cruz. There along the side of ...