"Charlie Pridham" wrote


"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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Picked up a plant at Hughenden Manor NT garden, obviously supplied by the
gardeners and unlabelled, and as I suspected it is Begonia southerlandii.
So far I haven't been able to find out much about this plant and it's
growing requirements so do any of you grow it or know of it?
I've also noticed that in the axis of the leave stalks little bulbils
seem to have grown, can this plant be propagated from those as with
enough plants it would make the most superb hanging basket for a N facing
wall.



Obviously a bit late to be planting this outside but next spring if it goes
in the ground its a reliable spreader.


Thanks Charlie, I do have a spot that it might like in the garden so when
I've built up enough I'll give it a go. Very pretty little plant, jewel
like, in the same vein as Cyclamen hederafolium and coum. Do you have it
hanging down as it seems to like or just covering ground?
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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