Hardy Tropicals UK

I remember seeing previous threads on begonias. Can anyone recommend some good long flowering colourful ones please? ....shade tolerant best.

I like the ones called Bonfire or similar. Masses of orange flowers all summer long.

I had these all summer long,

Yellow
Red, both called cascading Begonias.

Easily begonia luxurians no contest really.

Really like the plant in hanging baskets but will not grow well for me.

Those were in pots Rob,

Hanging basket:

Buy one ready to make up at a DIY store...or..

Buy one empty basket

One green liner that needs trimming do not try a small liner or the compost falls out

Compost a good one is Wessex

Water retaining crystals for the blazing summer we will experience again.

Plants

Fuchias
Begoina trailers
Petunias
Any cascading/pendulum plants
A centerpiece plant.

They sell them near by when the time is right absolutely full of floors with no gaps.

For flowers I have Begonia tuberhybrida, they flower all season until about -2C, and are semi drought tolerant. There are upright and trailing types

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Yorkshire Kris wrote:I like the ones called Bonfire or similar. Masses of orange flowers all summer long.

I second Bonfire, I bought them as plug plants a couple of years ago and they provided a great display all summer.

Thanks everyone. Now where is the best place to buy the plugs please?

Thompson and Morgan is where I get mine from.In fact I just put an order in today. They have got some half price as well. I have ordered begonia non stop, 70 plug plants for £9.99 and Begonia x tuberhybrida 'Illumination Mixed'
Half-hardy Perennialx72 plug plants for £19.99. I had these last year for my baskets and the colours were amazing and they were full of flowers and lasted for ages. Well worth the money

I had tuberhybridas, mine flowered until January, though I wouldn't recommend keeping them flowering that long as in doing so I have killed it... You are best cutting down foliage and flowers in mild winters like the one we just had

stephenprudence wrote:I had tuberhybridas, mine flowered until January, though I wouldn't recommend keeping them flowering that long as in doing so I have killed it... You are best cutting down foliage and flowers in mild winters like the one we just had

Just let them go dry, and they go dormant with the stems falling off

dorothy wrote:Thompson and Morgan is where I get mine from.In fact I just put an order in today. They have got some half price as well. I have ordered begonia non stop, 70 plug plants for £9.99 and Begonia x tuberhybrida 'Illumination Mixed'
Half-hardy Perennialx72 plug plants for £19.99. I had these last year for my baskets and the colours were amazing and they were full of flowers and lasted for ages. Well worth the money

Thanks I will take a look.

Dave Brown wrote:

stephenprudence wrote:I had tuberhybridas, mine flowered until January, though I wouldn't recommend keeping them flowering that long as in doing so I have killed it... You are best cutting down foliage and flowers in mild winters like the one we just had

Just let them go dry, and they go dormant with the stems falling off

Indeed, should have dug them up in November/December, however I left them in and they grew towards late January into early February - I think I must have over grown them, depleting them of their resources and they have withered and died (not having the appropriate resting period).