Begonias for Foliage Follow Up

Each month on the day after Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, the incomparable Pam Penick of Digging hosts foliage follow up to remind us of the important role that foliage plays in our gardens.  This month, I'm featuring a few of my begonias with beautiful foliage. 

This is the newest in the collection.  Alison and I both grabbed one of these beauties at Flower World on a recent visit.  We also grabbed breakfast at the Maltby Café and I'm still full!  (BTW Alison, one of those sweet rolls is still in the refrigerator, we've only made it through one!)

Begonia luxurians before the wind came up and knocked a brugmansia on top of it.



Providing festive color in the garden in the summer, these also make happy house plants in the winter. After a mild winter, if the gardener forgets to bring them inside, they've re emerged from their pots but not until very late in the season.  It's so hard to get good garden help and the firm currently employed here, Me, Myself and I, are a lazy lot prone to taking afternoon naps in the summer and ignoring uninteresting tasks in the garden.