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James Burghardt
(Ponytail Palm, Variegated Ponytail Palm)
Heat and drought are no problem for this tough plant. Ponytail palm is a tall, palm-like plant that is not a true palm but is closely related to agave. It has an upright, fleshy, trunk-like stem that becomes swollen at the base, where is stores water. This is topped with clusters of long, curved, sword-shaped leaves that hang down giving the appearance of a pony’s tail. When mature, it produces panicles of fragrant cream colored flowers that are pollinated by bats.
Ponytail palm thrives in hot...
James Burghardt
(Easter Lily Vine, Herald's Trumpet, Nepal Trumpet Flower)
With dangling clusters of large white trumpet-shaped flowers in very late winter and into the spring, herald's trumpet is a spectacular vine perfect for smaller tropical gardens. A heavy, vigorous evergreen vine it is native to southern Asia from the Himalayan foothills southeastward into Vietnam. Here, its lily-like blooms appear in proximity to the Easter holiday, yielding another common name.
Rust-colored hairs are on the undersides of youngest leaves before they mature to larger oval or oblong...
Maureen Gilmer
(Begonia)
Adored for beautiful blooms and wildly colorful foliage, Begonia is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. There are over 1,500 species and more than 10,000 cultivars and hybrids. They are found all over the world but most originate from sub-tropical and tropical regions.
The plants come in many different forms. They are fleshy, herbaceous and may be annual or perennial. In habit, they can be shrubby, climbing, or epiphytic (tree-dwelling). The leaves are simple or compound...
James Burghardt
(Andrea Prado Rex Begonia, Rex Begonia)
This group, one of many in the begonia family, is prized for its astounding leaves, which amply earn the designation “Rex” (King). The leaves vary wildly in shape from whorled or curled like a snail to broad and much-divided. They vary even more wildly in color and patterning. These begonias produce sparse sprays of small pink or white flowers but the leaves upstage and conceal the blooms.
Modern Rex begonias are complex hybrids that derive from crosses between the Southeast Asian native Begonia...
James Burghardt
(Art Hodes Begonia, Rhizomatous Begonia)
Adored for beautiful blooms and wildly colorful foliage, Begonia is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. There are over 1,500 species and more than 10,000 cultivars and hybrids. They are found all over the world but most originate from sub-tropical and tropical regions.
The plants come in many different forms. They are fleshy, herbaceous and may be annual or perennial. In habit, they can be shrubby, climbing, or epiphytic (tree-dwelling). The leaves are simple or compound...
(Avalanche Begonia, Begonia)
This angel-wing begonia is renowned d for its dark leaves with spots of lustrous silver or pale silvery-pink. A tender herbaceous perennial, ‘Avalanche’ is classified as a cane begonia because of its branching, plump stems with prominent nodes, vaguely like bamboo.. Each leafis large, wavy edged, and has hundreds of spots. Some leaves have much more silver than dgreen, and all leaf undersides are a milky light green. In midwinter small white blossoms appear in loose clusters stems on the canes among...
James Burghardt
(Barbara Hamilton Begonia, Cane Begonia)
Adored for beautiful blooms and wildly colorful foliage, Begonia is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. There are over 1,500 species and more than 10,000 cultivars and hybrids. They are found all over the world but most originate from sub-tropical and tropical regions.
The plants come in many different forms. They are fleshy, herbaceous and may be annual or perennial. In habit, they can be shrubby, climbing, or epiphytic (tree-dwelling). The leaves are simple or compound...
James Burghardt
(Bashful Bandit Begonia, Rhizomatous Begonia)
Adored for beautiful blooms and wildly colorful foliage, Begonia is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. There are over 1,500 species and more than 10,000 cultivars and hybrids. They are found all over the world but most originate from sub-tropical and tropical regions.
The plants come in many different forms. They are fleshy, herbaceous and may be annual or perennial. In habit, they can be shrubby, climbing, or epiphytic (tree-dwelling). The leaves are simple or compound...
Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.
(Begonia, River Nile Begonia)
The River Nile begonia's stunning metallic pink and silver foliage is complemented by salmon-pink flowers by very late winter. This tender herbaceous perennial is the result of extensive hybridization and is classified as a rex begonia. Each upright leaf is comprised of many long, oval, jagged-edged leaflets that are silver with green veins, but have varying blushes of purple or pink. In the coolness of fall and winter the leaves tend to be much more pink. In very early spring small salmon to coral-pink...
