Many-faced Begonia - Decoration Of The Winter Garden

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Many indoor flowers open their buds only in the autumn-summer period. Begonia blooms from July to December. But there are such varieties of begonias that continue to delight flower growers throughout the winter, without stopping to dissolve the petals in January and February, passing this baton to other flowers only in March-April. What kinds to decorate your windowsill, so that even in the middle of a fierce winter, you have bright lush bushes of flowering perennials behind your glass? Now you will find out about it

Varieties of indoor begonias

For those who want to decorate their winter garden with plants blooming in January-February, the following begonias are suitable:

• always blooming;

• noble;

• lotus-leaved;

• alfalfa begonia;

• gray-green-leaved;

• hanging begonia;

• fuchsia-shaped.

If you are not familiar with a flower such as begonia, the following information will come in handy. The perennial includes several varieties. This is:

1. Decorative flowering plants.

2. Decorative leafy flowering perennials.

3. Ampelnye, that is, with twigs and shoots hanging from the pots.

If you would like to decorate your apartments as luxuriantly as possible with flowering plants, then naturally, you should choose the first option.

Ampelous also tend to bloom profusely. But for their needs, suitable conditions should be arranged. For them, there will already be little window sill, especially if heating radiators are located nearby. In this case, you will have to build hanging pots, put a special stand or nail a shelf for flowers.

Ornamental leafy begonias can also bloom. However, their main value is bright leaves of unusual contrasting colors, covered with intricate patterns. And the flowers themselves do not carry any special decorative value. They look plain and pale.

What types of begonias bloom in winter

Let's take a closer look at the types of bush decorative flowering begonias that bloom their buds in the middle of winter.

And the first on this list is the noble begonia. This is one of the best varieties for indoor cultivation. She dissolves rather large semi-double pink buds. If it has not bloomed for you in the middle of winter, perhaps you got one of the early flowering varieties. And you need to look for a late variety.

Fuchsia begonia is a very unusual flower. Unlike other, more common varieties of begonias, which look like miniature roses, this perennial is distinguished by small drooping inflorescences with crimson-red petals.

Begonia alfalfa is distinguished by both the unusual color of the leaves and the shape of the inflorescence. Above, the leaf plate is strewn with gray spots or silvery stripes between bright green veins. And the underside of the leaf becomes a rich red-brown hue. The inflorescence looks like a bunch of viburnum. Petals from pale pink to bright carmine shade.

Lotus begonia also has unusual foliage. The platinum plate has a regular green top and a pink bottom.

Always flowering begonia is a species that has a large list of beautifully flowering varieties:

• begonia Shragme and Gother Kind - for lovers of bright red petals;

• begonia Rosa Erfordi and Rosa Midea - blooms pink buds;

• Begonia Weise Erfordi - has the most delicate pink-white flowers.

Now let's take a closer look at ampelous plants. What is the decorative feature of the glaucous-green-leaved begonia is indicated by the very name of the perennial. It has unusually colored foliage. But it also blooms very beautifully - dissolving delicate red petals. Hanging begonia is a real waterfall of glossy green leaves and white flowers.

And if you do not have begonias yet, but you have long dreamed of it, then now is the time to engage in its reproduction.

• in January-February, begonias are propagated by dividing rhizomes;

• from February to March, you can sow seeds;

• and since March, flowers are propagated by leaf and stem cuttings.

Each year, the perennial is transplanted into a new pot.