Saxifraga Species, Creeping Saxifrage, Strawberry Begonia, Strawberry Geranium

Really like this plant. It covers ground fairly slow; but is easy to remove and keep where you want it. It overwinters well in Hueytown...Read More, Alabama. I have left it outside in pots - and have some in ground. It has a little shelter from trees. I was afraid that our hard winter this year would get it but it withstood the low temps and changes. I'm dividing some this week to give away.

This seems to be an easy plant to grow, and I do like the look. I received mine in the mail a few weeks ago, and it's been doing quite we...Read Morell in a north-facing window. I water it about once a week; it doesn't seem to mind if water is left behind in the saucer.

This is one of my favorite "That can't be hardy!" plants. It's perfectly winter-hardy here in my Zone 6b garden, as long as it's in a mo...Read Moreist, shaded spot. It's not keen on sweltering heat and so, like violets, may go dormant in the summer but will return as soon as the temperatures return to comfortable levels. In the winter make sure it has snow cover or a good mulch so that the crowns and roots don't dry out. When I first started growing it a friend of mine, who lives on the Zone 6a side of the 6a/6b border, told me that he had to eradicate it from his garden because "it took over." This is a person who likes wide open spaces between every plant in his garden, and the strawberry begonia broke that rule. In my garden, where I don't like open space, it worked out just fine. A very nice foil for small hostas, bloodroot, and other plants liking similar conditions.

When I lived in St Louis, Zone 5, I had a hanging basket of this plant in the house. One summer I put the pot in the shade outside. A few...Read More stolons hanging over the pot rooted in the ground, but I expected them to die over winter. To my surprise they came back in the spring. In my zone 5 garden they died to the ground in winter so they spread slowly. I took a pot of them with me when I moved to zone 7 and put them in the ground. Here they are evergreen and spread like crazy. I have given them to everyone I know and now I have to throw away extras every spring.

Here in japan the plant is called " Yuki no shita" ( under the snow )
A wild edible , tempura.

I planted some strawberry saxifrage last summer expecting them to die when winter came, but they survived the winter with only a little b...Read Moreruising of the young leaves at the crown. Probably this is just because of our 2-foot snow cover this year, which must have shielded the plants from full zone 4-5 temperatures. We'll see if they survive next winter.

I got a few starts of this plant in late summer of 2010, to plant out as an evergreen groundcover in zone 6b. While they were cute, I wa...Read Mores not initially impressed with their growth. However, as of today, 2/27/2011, I must say that I am very impressed, as we have had a hard winter, with temps dipping to 5 degrees once, and 8 degrees twice. Since the fall, the plants have tripled in size, and made a great deal of daughter plants! Not only that, but they look great, with no signs of freeze damage.
UPDATE 3/6/2012 A year later, I have to say, this is my new favorite plant! As a good ground cover should, they politely cover area quickly, (and are easy to remove where unwanted.) The abundant blooms are charming, (if not show-stopping.) And unlike the Heucheras they are replacing, they require no maintinence or annual dividing to look good.

I love my Strawberry Begonia and have had it for about 2 and 1/2 years now. My only problem with it is, the taller it gets, it falls over...Read More and i can't make it stand up straight anymore. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS ON WHAT TO DO FOR IT? IS THIS NORMAL FOR THIS PLANT? Should it be a hanging plant that lays over?? I love it so much and i hate it falling over, b/c it looks sad! :o( Any advice would help me greatly!

Thanks!

Got it from nursery, it sold as a indoor hanging basket plant. After few months later, I found it grows slowly and looked suffering. I'...Read Moreve replace it everywhere in the house, bright light, part shade, all shade. Watered it frequently, misted it every other day, sometimes kept it a little dried. It JUST not happy at all. I was so frustrated about this princess! I could not think of any other method to take care of it. Thus, the last method, put it outdoor with partial shade/partial sun. Guess what? It started to grow like crazy, grow 2 times bigger in just 2 months. There were lots of flower stems that popped out, even on their babies (runner). What a diva!

In my area, once temps hit 80-85, plant goes dormant. Very pretty and spreads nicely but if you want a permanent groundcover and you liv...Read Moree in a warmer climate, this one is not the best choice. When I first started growing this plant, it was planted in a shady and moist area. It still goes dormant on me in the summer. I also planted it as companion plant in a tropical pot, brighter location, it went dormant in a week! I know it's not dead, but it requires more attention than I'm willing to devote.

First started outdoors in summer of 2009. Just a couple of plants that I divided and put in the front row of morning only shade garden. S...Read Morepread readily, but not aggressively; stayed evergreen over unusually cold and snowy winter and did not seem to be bothered by rabbits at that! Rabbits usually munch on anything that stays evergreen in my garden. Even if it's something they don't eat - they nip it at the ground level and spit it out.
This spring I have a nice edging of strawberry begonias and they are starting to bloom now. Dainty little flowers that I think are very pretty if you give them a close look.
Easy and carefree plant for the front of shade garden. Will make a good groundcover for shaded areas.

i seem to never have luck with this plant outside....it gets COVERED in those nasty white mealy bugs every time, however it is really tak...Read Moreing off in my little terrarium. And i also have some sitting in a pot in the window.....both seem to be doing ok.

this plant is hardy in zone 6 possibly zone 5.i winter tested it in my yard in two places,one totaly exposed in a pot in the middle of my...Read More yard and another planted against my house.both survived the winter here in cleveland ohio in almost perfect condition,and they are starting to send up a lot of new leaves.i look forward to seeing it flower and plan on planting more of it in my yard this year.i never had any luck growing it as a house plant,but as an outdoor perrenial i think it is well worth growing.

I bought this plant about 2 years ago from a lady in GA. What started out as 5 small plants has spread three times that much in my garden...Read More. During the winter I covered them with mulch and was surprised to see green peaking out from the snow each time it melted. I really love this plant super easy to take care of. IMO it may be on the evasive side for those who dont have much space to spare.

This plant did horribly in the house - instead of discarding it, I decided to plant it outside. Who knew!!! It loves it. The most beau...Read Moretiful little flowers. I must state that it does not like sun. The spot I had put it in first got afternoon shade until the tree was taken down. Then I needed to move it as it started stressing and dying on me.

Glad I came across this while looking up something else. I never knew what the plant was!

I received a plant from Toxicodendron. It spread all through the summer thriving in filtered shade. In March, the "stolens" were produced...Read More and new plants started forming (see photo). It also started to flower near the end of March. It did not go dormant during the mild freezes in the winter and stayed a beautiful green. This is a great plant and I am going to start it in several other places in my yard.

This plant seems hardy here in Zone 6 of Missouri, too. I have had it planted outside for 3 years now. It looks a little bit tired after ...Read Morethe winter, but basically stays evergreen all year. A thick groundcover can be quickly formed if the stolons are moved back into the patch to cover any bare spots. The dainty white flowers are a bonus; I cut them off after the bulk of the blooms have opened. Keep moist and in dappled or part shade for best results.

Edgewood, Washington
I have this delightful little plant in my flower bed and in pots on the deck. And it has survived outside fo...Read Morer years. In the winter it dies down completely but comes back again in the Spring. It has even survived temps down to the teens. And I thought it was a tender houseplant. Nature never ceases to amaze me. Be adventurous and stretch your and a plants limits. You might be pleasantly surprised. Happy gardening.

This plant is hardy to zone 6. I'm in 6A and it does well.

Another common name for this plant is "Strawberry Geranium".

This plant is also known as Mother of Thousands or Aaron's beard. It can be used as a houseplant, preferably in a hanging p...Read Moreot or basket, so that the young plants growing on long thin "stolons" coming out of the center of the plant (just like the leaves that form a rosette), can hang down freely. Sometimes there are hundreds of young plants on dozens of stolons.
The easiest way to propagate this plant is taking young rosettes from the stolons and planting them in potting-soil. They root easily.
To get flowers, however, it seems the plant has to get some frost, so in winter it should be outside to get this particular inflorescence with the pretty white flowers in June.