so looking foward to spring... new plants??? what???? Catalogues???? so pretending not to look!!!!!

this year I hope to have an RU here in my garden !!!! I miss you guys...

my current window winter garden!!!!

that would be great Kassia!!!... looking good.. that is some skinny begonia though

would you believe that skinny begonia came from you???? yeah... it was a gorgeous plant and the poor thing just fell apart when I changed to a bigger pot... well I did not believe it was going to survive ... but aleluia it has started to grow again... it's very elegant right now... but it will be fat one day!!!! lol... just you wait!!!!

of course it will!!... always better to get a new plant cutting off an old tuber anyway

HI Kassia! Good to see you!!!
Pay no attention to BEGONIA QUEEN, we can't all have the touch.

Hi Kassia,

Nice to see you!!

she brought it inside... better than me!!!

I have a lovely pink one you gave me still going.

nice!!!

Hi Celeste!!!! Hi Poly!!!! nice to see you girls too!!!!

I am telling you, I have this love/fear attitude towards begonias... I am so afraid of becoming addicted to them... I really can't become addicted because I don't have room to bring them inside... only my bedroom window to have them in the winter - and I dont want them to die outside... oh well....

I have 2 strawberry ones... I love them... and of course I could not resist and got 2 new ones at Trader Joes last week... what can I do???? hopeless!!!!

Ah, I actually have some cuttings in water right now ... Allison what should I do ??? wait until is spring to plant them??? it has tons of new roots but I am afraid to kill it...

once you get them in soil.. make sure the first few weeks you keep them moist.. sometimes it's hard to transition from water to soil

Allison, look at the roots... do I need stronger roots than that??? I am in no hurry to plant it into soil... I just don't want to wait too long and loose the plant...
Can you believe that is the plant that detached from the tuber???? oh I was so mad!

Here is my window winter garden today...
Pretty succulents from my 2nd trip to San Francisco to see Zuzu & Sue in 2009 I think! I got them at Lone Pines ... oh I miss that nursery... wish I had that weather so I could grow all those succulents!

pretty begonia from Trader Joes!

Canadian mini rose (of course I can not not have a rose! - even if in the end I kill the poor thing)

strawberry begonia - love this plant

this is a plant (xtmas cactus) that refuses to die!


Do you guys find that plastic containers are better inside the house in the winter than clay or ceramic pots??? this is the 2nd year that I notice that my plants struggle less inside the house if they are in plastic than ceraminc or clay ... maybe is just me...

plastic holds the moisture better.. I think.. I like plastic or the coated Styrofoam pots for inside

I would wait a tad bit longer for those roots to get bigger.. so if any break off there will be some backups

never seen the coated styrofoam... sounds interesting...

I will definitely wait... what potting soil do you use????

I have been using coir mixed with pearlite .. and add in slow release fertilizer

where do you get it????

there are lots of places on the internet and local that have it.. but the stuff I have now came from a farm that closed down and he sold the lot of coir to me.. but every year there is a vendor at the flower show that sells it.. might be your cheapest price if you can find any at an event like that

https://www.google.com/search?...

I have amazon prime and have free shipping (was worth it for us) but be careful with the shipping costs if you buy online.. some places will double the fee .. the prime is worth it for something like this

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004D441ZO/

the block will expand to just about the size of a peat bale .. so it's not easy to do inside.. I either break pieces off and expand a small amount or do the whole thing in a big tub.. or they have the smaller bricks that would be easier to deal with inside

Hi Kassia!!!!

Sorry haven't been on here in AGES....it's been one crazy winter


Surprised to see these today, I was as giddy as a school girl, LOL last year they bloomed March 1st