Beautiful! nice soft color.

Silvia

Sweet! I tend to choose my begonia for the foliage. I never seem to get flowers. LOL

Laura, I love your begonia! Really a pretty color. Does it have a scent?

I used to be really into begonias... until something else grabbed my attention (bromeliads) and then something something else after that (adenium/desert rose). I still have a few nice begonias. The most beautiful and uncommon one is a tall, pink cane begonia that I received as cuttings from Hester back in May 2011. It has a wonderful lemony scent in the early morning and evening. As the plant matures, each new cane is thicker and stronger. The canes now reach 6-7 feet tall.

Here are some six-foot tall canes in the front bed (above). (Needed to trim the silverthorn bushes in the back. Yikes!)

Love the big, pink pendulous blooms!
Hester, can you believe that beautiful plant came from the cuttings you sent? How lucky I am!

More under the live oak in the back. (Those are the bloodleaf's reddish-pink leaves in the background.) I've spread them around the yard in many different shady places and it's been my best begonia. I think Silvia has this one, too.

Uh-oh, I sense a renewed addiction...

Carol in Jacksonville

Laura, I absolutely love your Begonia. The color is gorgeous! Does it have a name?

I would love to find one.

Jane

Carol your begonias are beautiful! some of the greatest plants are the ones that friends give us.

Jane I'm sure it has a name and I know the person who gave it too me knows it but I don't know what it is.

Just beautiful guys!!! Thanks for posting!!

I agree with you Laura, the best plants reminds us of a garden friend. All my plants have a little story with them.

Carol, your garden looks beautiful! Nice combination of plants.

And you are right , I have a good number of begonias most of them from Mark, I love begonias! easy care and when flowering or not always look good to my eyes, they are also easy to propagate and make good gifts. I always start a lot of begonia and violet plants to give them away.

I have 2 cane begonias, one in a pot in the porch that gets shade and the other one planted by the fence and in full sun, always flowers.

Silvia

Yes, Silvia, that looks just like mine! Beautiful. (well not JUST like mine. yours is larger :-) )

Laura, I love the peachy color of yours. If you find out what it is, please post the name. I would like to get one.

Silvia, wow, fantastic! Full sun, really? Wow! I guess if they get acclimated, they can... mine do get some full sun in the morning... but I had a big potted plant that i moved from the front porch to dappled shade in April, and it pouted for about two weeks... until the crape myrtles fully leafed out.

Ok I contacted the person I got the begonia from...she isn't much of a computer person so I don't know how often she checks her email. However she can remember botanical names like nobodies business! It is freaking amazing.

Thank you Laura, I have another begonia that just finish flowering and I think is a little bit more orange than your peachy one and the expert in the begonia forum said that it might be Torch.

Here it is in two different lights, same flowers

Thank you Carol, I put that cane begonia in the ground as a little cutting not expecting to survive in the full sun and it probed me wrong. It does look better when is cooler outside and did not get bother with the cold temperatures in winter. They are very tall, over 6 ft.

Silvia

Those cane begonias are beautiful. I have never seen them for sale. Does anyone know where I can find some?

I sent an email to the lady who gave me the begonia but she never replied to my request for the name.

Here's a NOID begonia purchased from WalMart last year. It was blooming at the time and I couldn't resist. I told myself I would enjoy it while the blooms lasted and until I found something "better" ("better" being undefined). Perhaps it knew it was on the temporary list and wanted to show why it should have its forever home because this year it's been blooming and blooming and sending up strong new canes. I can enjoy the flowers from the kitchen nook too. It's earned its keep.

It looks a lot like yours, Silvia, so it may be "Torch" also. Pictures of some plants claiming to be "Torch" show somewhat ruffled leaves but I've found others that have the smooth edge like mine. No matter the name, it's a keeper.

June

Oh, they do well in sun. Gee whiz... thanks for waking me up, y'all! I've had mine in light shade and the blooms are infrequent. Here's a great rundown on care: American Begonia Society

Nice begonias (and other things) Silvia. You are such a good gardener. I think those begonias that just look pretty are the Rex types.

I actually bought some begonia tubers for hanging baskets this spring. I have yellow and red pendulous types. They are hanging under the eaves in part shade doing well. I also got some type of picotee pink and white tuberous kind that's more upright in a different basket.

Silvia I like your white epiphyllum. I have several diff colored epi cactus. I don't know the names because all the tags got mixed up in the gh one winter lol . I started them all from small cuttings now they are all monsters but most havent bloomed yet.

SJN, I didn't know that ANYONE could grow the tubers here in Florida.... I've known nothing but rot for those bad boys, so congratulations!

Irma, I agree with Silvia... definitely shade for the green leafed, pink-bloomed cane begonia... although Silvia definitely has one going well... maybe with a lot of slow acclimation. (The Torch begonia, which I had at one time, has a burgundy underside to the leaf.)

Ariel, if you would like, I can send you some cuttings of the green/pink next Feb/March. Much easier to survive shipping and much easier to root at that time.

Carol

Carol, you are too
kind. If I can't find any local, I might take you up on your generous
offer.

I actually
have a few begonias; I know one is a cane begonia that I purchased from a plant
sale years ago. The others I am not sure about. I purchased them earlier in the
year. The leaves look a lot like my cane begonia, but so far they do not have the
height of one. Maybe I am just too impatient, ha!

Ariel, they take a few years to get the root system established to support thick and sturdy canes that tall.

Here's a link to a very established stand. It's the same variety as mine and Silvia's. It's in your neck of the woods.... perhaps they would give you a cutting?

Huge Stand of Pink Cane Begonia at USF Botanical Gardens

Carol

Those are beautiful!!!

Such beautiful begonias!

Carol, I love your yard, so cottagey.

A couple of months ago I went on the Parrot Cove (Lake Worth) home tour, and I had to laugh at one point. There was a house that was on the tour for just the yard, and it was most elaborately xeriscaped. The landscape architect was on hand to answer questions, too, but people kept pulling away to look at the house across the street (not on tour), which was most simply and exquisitely landscaped with a few cane begonias that exactly matched the window trim color. A couple of underplants in spots (mostly shorter white begonias), and three or four old coconut palms. That was all, but it was gorgeous.

It was the prettiest house I've seen in LW. I enjoyed watching the landscape architect's face as people came up to the tour house, took one look at his fancy design, and said things like, "Oh, forget that one, Helen. Look at this!" and peeled off across the street.

I didnt know that the tubers were difficult here. I was thrilled I found tubers in the packaged bulb dection at Walmart. I tried to grow some when we first moved here and it was a total fiasco not because they rotted though..here's the story lol..

I joined one of those co-ops at Dave's Garden one year and a month later got all these fabulous begonia tubers in the mail. I went and bought 5 wire hanging basket with the coco liners, new potting soil etc and had them all planted and lined up on the side of the garage near a flowerbed. I just got them all watered and decided to let them drain and settle before hanging them. Soooo I went in the house for a few minutes. Meanwhile, dh decides he's going to the store and backs his truck out of the garage. He backed out oddly and yes SMUSHED every single one of those wire baskets. So I hadnt planted any since lol.