I kept a deep pink flowered fibrous rooted begonia in a pot on a shady indoor windowsill for years - it always had flowers on it every week of the year - true to it's name semperflorens = ever blooming.
Thanks Bleep, I have just had a look on the Thompson & Morgan website, I think I will be ordering some on Friday I just need to decide which ones. I will compare the pricing first though as I do like to support my local GC, the owners are lovely and so helpful.
One more question......am I best buying as tubers or as plug plants, tubers are cheaper it seems, but how easy are they to grow? Presumably if plug plants are sent by the end of March, that means if I am planting as tubers I can get them now and plant?
I bought plug plants of trailing begonias form Jersey Plants. I think it was free P&P and they were really cheap. They were really small when they arrived but I potted them on and they flowered that first year and made tubers.
Like Blairs says Vine weevils are a pest but when the the plants die down in the autumn i soak them in a solution of Provado VW killer. I've kept the tubers for two years now and some of them are about 5inches across now.
I've also bought plugs of pelagoniums form Jersey Plants before. Again very small but flowered well in first year.
Just looked at this years catalogue pelagoniums £14.99 for 180 plug plants
I WOULD BUY TUBERS AND THEY WILL LAST YOU FOR YEARS IF YOU STORE THEM OVER WINTER,IF YOU BUY PLUG PLANTS YOU WILL GET A VERY SMALL TUBER AT THE END OF THE SEASON,IT IS TO EARLY TO PLANT OUT YOUR TUBERS OR PLUG PLANTS GROW ON IN G/HOUSE OR WINDOW SILL.
Ok, tubers it is and they sell them at my lovely family GC so will probably go there. The plug plants, Bleepbleep you said I will get a tiny tuber at the end if the summer, so can that tiny tuber also be stored and then replanted next year? If not I think I will stick with my other bedding plants for general purpose and spend more on tubers.
I'm not planting any out yet don't worry, I'm just trying to decide what to do and it isn't easy....so much choice. Thanks guys/girls for your help, much appreciated
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I kept a deep pink flowered fibrous rooted begonia in a pot on a shady indoor windowsill for years - it always had flowers on it every week of the year - true to it's name semperflorens = ever blooming.
Really easy to take cuttings from too
http://voices.yahoo.com/how-cut-back-root-begonia-semperflorens-6905454.html?cat=32
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
try apricot shades for pots & hanging baskets buy tubers from Thomson & morgan
also try parkers for good value and cheep tubers and they useually get some bulbs
for buying from them
I will get there eventually!!!
Hi Tracey,
I bought plug plants of trailing begonias form Jersey Plants. I think it was free P&P and they were really cheap. They were really small when they arrived but I potted them on and they flowered that first year and made tubers.
Like Blairs says Vine weevils are a pest but when the the plants die down in the autumn i soak them in a solution of Provado VW killer. I've kept the tubers for two years now and some of them are about 5inches across now.
I've also bought plugs of pelagoniums form Jersey Plants before. Again very small but flowered well in first year.
Just looked at this years catalogue pelagoniums £14.99 for 180 plug plants
Begonias start at £14.99 for 180 plugs.
I WOULD BUY TUBERS AND THEY WILL LAST YOU FOR YEARS IF YOU STORE THEM OVER WINTER,IF YOU BUY PLUG PLANTS YOU WILL GET A VERY SMALL TUBER AT THE END OF THE SEASON,IT IS TO EARLY TO PLANT OUT YOUR TUBERS OR PLUG PLANTS GROW ON IN G/HOUSE OR WINDOW SILL.
GOOD LUCK
I'm not planting any out yet don't worry, I'm just trying to decide what to do and it isn't easy....so much choice. Thanks guys/girls for your help, much appreciated