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Mon, Sep 15, 14 at 9:59
| It always amazes me how few people grow these plants when they're undemanding shade plants with attractive leaves and quite impressive fall flowering. Of course, I guess the stigmata of growing something that looks like your grandma's angelwing begonia, might be hard to live with :) Myself, I hope to accquire some B. sutherlandii next year to add orange to the shady spots. |
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- Posted by sweet_betsy z7 No AL USA (My Page) on Mon, Sep 15, 14 at 10:58
| Mine is blooming now--a bright spot in my rain-starved, ratty-looking fall garden. |
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- Posted by pitimpinai z6 Chicago (My Page) on Mon, Sep 15, 14 at 14:29
| I don't grow them. I have very little shady area in my garden now that we lost a large street tree from the front of my house. :-( My Colchicum was pushing through this weekwend. It will make a big show for the next month. Sedum 'Autumn Joy' is in its pink glory. Those and Aster, Geranium Rozanne, Miscanthus 'Morning Light', Hosta June, Halcyon, Blue Angel, Kossa Regal and Blue Mouse Ear are the only things that don't look ratty and tired like the rest in my garden right now. |
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| I had some for years--even a couple of volunteers but last Winter they croaked--not a smidgeon to be seen. |
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| B. grandis lasted a couple of years for me, but apparently even moderate winter cold here was too much for it. Very nice plant though for a mostly shady border. |
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| I accquired it when I was in college (way back in the 80s) and know I transplanted some to my new home back umm say fifteen years ago. It since died out at parents house (but then it was untended and unwatered). It seems pretty reliable here, though I have seen a late frost kill the tops once or twice (but it does resprout at ground level). |
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