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purpleinopp said:Happy to suggest, and love to talk Begonias. Our school never tries anything so interesting.

Your dragon wing is a perennial, but unless it is brought inside to protect it from winter, it can't survive perennially in your location.

Tiffany, begonias are sold as annuals in our neck of the woods. And bringing any plant indoors means certain botanical death, under my care. I have a brown thumb indoors and a green thumb outdoors.

Calif_Sue said:

Unless she is certain that is the exact cultivar, the name Dragon Wing is a common name for many begonias. The one you linked is from a registered series, Dragon Wing®, with a cultivar name of 'Bepared'

Well, now I'm thoroughly confused. Sue, is there a cultivar with the word "dragon" in the name? Bc I'm 100% positive that "dragon" was on the tag, and "wings" might have been too, but I'm less positive on that one. I'm inclined to believe that the nursery just used the general name. 🤷

Here's what they looked like, pre-pruning.



They were stunning when I received them, but both of them wound up a bit scorched by brief morning sun exposure, with dry soil, while waiting in the wings to be transplanted in to a normal pot, bc they came in this idiotic pot design, making it difficult to keep them properly hydrated



So, I had a couple of days of debilitation, last week, when temps were in the mid 80's, and I didn't remotely think to ask someone to water them. Hence the reason to prune.