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How To Care for Begonias

Begonias need adequate sunlight, water and fertilization to thrive. The soil should be moist but not soggy and you should aim ...
I have always been drawn to begonias. In Southern California, where I grew up, they were a landscape staple, and every public park had masses of them bedded out in grand displays. The most commonly ...
Q. Can come back each year? A couple of people in our community mentioned that their begonias came back each year. Do you think that is possible? I usually purchase some in quart containers and just ...
* What it is: Most begonias die at frost, but this one is a perennial version that sends up stems of nodding pink flowers from July into mid-fall, then dies back to the ground. Leaves are slow to ...
HAVE YOU noticed a dazzling new orange fuchsia in nurseries lately? Turns out this enticing mound of flowers isn’t a fuchsia at all, but a Bolivian begonia, which isn’t even kin to the fuchsias it so ...
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