Begonia grandis Bulbils
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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Comments (4)Sorry, the begonia bulbs have been traded. Contact me again in spring - I'll probably have enough to make a decent trade. Thanks!...See Moreinstructions on sowing b. grandis bulbils
Comments (2)In my experience, they won't come up this time of year. The ones i've brought in have always quickly died to the ground. On the positive side, they make excellent spring house plants, coming up a month or two ahead of those out doors. You might pot them up and stick them in the basement, then next March expose them to light and watch them grow. A head start can make a big difference in the size of your plants by mid summer, since first year plants bloom much later than established ones, and are generally much smaller....See MoreWhat to do with hardy begonia bulbils?
Comments (6)I just leave them in the dirt around the parent plants - after a couple of years you can have a clump of over 100 plants - I dig and pot some of the bigger bulbs each spring for local plant sales. I have both grandis, and the white flowered form, also a hybrid called B. Torsa that has HUGE leaves to 2 ft across. bob...See Morebegonia grandis
Comments (2)Favorite native trees in northeast Georgia: Serviceberry, Sourwood, Fringe tree (the native one, Chionanthus virginicus, not the chinese one), bigleaf magnolia, southern magnolia, Tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana), paw paw (asimina triloba), wax myrtle. Favorite native shrubs: native azaleas, mountain laurel, vaccinium (blueberries, lots of different ones), virginia sweetspire, sweetshrub (the species and the cultivar 'Athens'), Florida anise (illicium sp.), clethra, viburnums (nudum, dentatum, acerifolium are some of the native ones). My suggestion for 4 season interest is to plant a variety of things: some flowering, some evergreen, some deciduous (and it is the deciduous ones that give you good fall color). If you haven't already, I'd suggest you join the Georgia Native Plant Society and start participating in the metro area rescues. It's a good way to learn more about the natives in this area and to rescue some of them for your own garden. Here is a link that might be useful: GNPS site...See Morehc mcdole
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last yearSounds like a good plan. I have bought them over the years and grew them in the ground and in a pot and lost them. I got some from a gardening friend at a begonia club meeting. I brought in some cuttings or rooted begonias to pass around in an aluminum pan. I put those dug up plants from my friend in the same pan, added some potting soil (poked holes in the pan) and put them under the shade of an azalea. I haven't done one other thing to this pan of begonias and now I have them spreading over the years from bulbils and maybe seeds. Guess the answer was not to buy them? Or quit coddling them?
This is them in 2018 with two different florist ivies (they have to be weed whacked these days).
Here they are back in July this year. Where's the pan?
May 1st, this year. They are as competitive as the florist ivies.
April 20th, they are waking up after a winter's rest.
Last year's blooms.
Late Feb seed pods
Can be weedy but I like that.Zone 7b
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last yearYes, they are tough. Here are some at one of our local nurseries where they are growing next to and under potting benches outdoors.
One of mine from a few years ago starting to bud. This was G. evansiana which may be a little different than what I have now. I lost the G. E. This was one I bought instead of being gifted by someone else.
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