I have had one of these plants for over 35 years. I live in Nebraska and treat it as a houseplant. It thrives outdoors on a shaded porch ...Read Morein summer and Winters in a south window. It generally blooms in Winter about the end of January.
It generally dies back a lot during Winter loosing a large amount of foliage and comes back once outside in Summer.
As it grew I merely potted it up into progressively larger pots and it is now time to take cuttings and start a new plant. It has become too large to move about.
Coral Springs, FL (Zone 10b) | February 2005 | positive
A friend gave this to me when she moved, one scraggily little leaf. Now its a real superstar, in less than a year it has returned full f...Read Moreorce.
Very easy to grow in south florida, takes the heat and keeps on ticking, even when it was just a rhizome laying ontop of the soil...for about six months.
what a trooper!
I have had one of these plants for over 35 years. I live in Nebraska and treat it as a houseplant. It thrives outdoors on a shaded porch ...Read More
Popular rhizomatous type begonia hybrid from parents B. 'Maphil' and B. 'Black Beauty'. Hybridized by Zug in 1960.
Makes a great houseplant, I got mine at Home Depot.
Needs bright light, mines near a northeast window.
A friend gave this to me when she moved, one scraggily little leaf. Now its a real superstar, in less than a year it has returned full f...Read More
This is a lovely, easy to grow begonia in central Florida.