Very easy to grow and most charming is B. ‘Black Raspberry’. It always catches the eye of visitors, even those who do not grow any plants at all. Classified in the Thompson Begonia Guide as rhizomatous, medium leaved, entire-sub- entire, it was originated...
An interesting thing happened in the show room at the Atlanta convention; as I was admiring the gorgeous B. deliciosa grown by Charles Jaros, a visitor asked if the name meant that this begonia was tasty. I answered that it probably did, as this is one begonia reputed...
I recently wrote an article for the SOS Newsletter on outside gardening in the Houston area. In reading it later, I realized that a parallel story would be about growing begonia in a shade house in south Texas. A shade house is an extremely flexible installation,...
My infatuation with B. ‘Joe Hayden’ began sometime in the late spring or early summer of 1971. I remember walking past a flower shop on Third Avenue in New York City during a lunch hour. When I casually looked at the plants displayed in the store’s...
This lovely rhizome came to me in an exchange box – I don’t remember where it came from or who sent it. I tried to find information about this begonia, but failed. I even wrote to Ann Lee Salisbury. The rhizome on this begonia is very thick and it has a...
