Re: Hardiness of Begonia grandis 'Alba'?

Hello Frank,
    As if just so happens..... I will be giving a slide presentation and
talk at Fernwood this coming February 8th. "Ten Months of Bloom in the Shade
Garden". Will be my first trip up and over to see Fernwood. If you get a
chance and it is not too far from you come say hello. Invitation applies to
any of you in that neck of the woods.
    I took a pot of Begonia sinensis in trade this past summer. Never did
get it into a location in the garden. Hopefully still in the holing area
waiting for its new home. I have not taken the time to look up photos of the
various species ... is there all that much of a difference in appearances
between them??
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message -----
> Begonia sinensis is as reliable as grandis.  I could have given you some
> since I have been pulling them up and composting them for years.  They
> spread as prolifically as grandis.  I have tried other clones  as well as
> alba with no success at all.  I grew sinensis from seed about ten years
ago
> so I know that if I could get seeds from some of the other clones I could
> grow them.  Once you have grandis though it is hard to know what you are
> pulling up.  I had a fall crocus with a good bloom still in bloom up till
> Christmas.  If my AIBO robot could only pull weeds.  I got my original
> Grandis from Kay Boydston at Fernwood in Michigan in the 70's (?)
> Frank Cooper
> zone 5
> central Illinois

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