New purchase b. boliviensis million kisses elegance

Love these. I have b boliviensis bonfire coming back from last year. Found a cheap source for my newest one. 2 1/2 ft wide and it cost me 13 dollars. Yay!! Now for the boliviensis million kisses honeymoon! Have not seen the yellow locally though.

Found a B. Boliviensis yesterday at lowes, very large basket for 9.95!

Was it red bonfire? Just love them!

Hi, wonder if you can tell me if this one is also a B. Boliviensis. I got it as 3 small cuttings and the lady who sent it to me calls it 'Chocolate Bonfire'. It has the small, very narrow pointy leaves, with a slight dark cast to them.

Also, it's pretty wimpy, compared to most of my other begonias. To get a nice, full hanging basket like you have in that picture, do you have a whole lot of plants in one basket?

I'm thinking I should cut these long, lanky shoots, hope they branch, and root the cuttings in the same pot.

It does look like it. I understand you have to pinch the shoots to make them full . The develop large rhizomes. Mine go dormant in the winter, and resprout in the spring. There are three rhizomes per hanging basket. I have not perfected their winter care. Of three rhizomes in my bonfire basket, I managed to kill one. I am still learning how to get them through dormancy! I was worried if I left them completely dry in our desert like winter conditions. They would shrivel. So I occasionally watered them. Perhaps enough to rot one.

I can't get them to overwinter, maybe I under/over watered. Or maybe they need to be removed from the soil altogether, which is what I do for the tuberous begonias.

Mine are over wintering ok. The dry seems to bother them less than wet and cold