(Palm-leaved Begonia)

Palm-leaved begonia, a robust Brazilian native, is a tall, shrub-like tender tropical perennial with breathtaking palmate leaves. Each hand-like leaf - made up of 11-20 smaller leaflets that are fleshy and sometimes rippled - is often described as cannibis-like. The leaf stems are a contrasting pink to pink-orange. In spring, long floral stems arise and display creamy white clusters of flowers that are fragrant. Begonia flowers are either male or female, with male blossoms opening first.

Palm-leaved...

(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...

(Begonia)

Tall, thick, upright and unbranching stems with attractive, glossy dark green and purple leaves makes Begonia multinervia a lovely but large tropical plant for the warm garden or house. Considered a tender perennial, this native of lower Central America becomes a tall clump as new stems arise only from the root mass, always without branches. The thick, smooth oval leaves are slightly toothed on the edges, glossy bright green above, and purplish underneath. The leaf stem petioles are lightly...

(Sweet Begonia)

An elegant tropical perennial, sweet begonia is has glossy, succulent leaves and graceful pendulous white flowers that offer a faint pleasant fragrance. Originating from the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, this large semi-woody begonia is actually considered to be a subshrub. It has a mounding yet rambling habit and is one of the few begonias that can tolerate full sunlight. As long as temperatures are warm and growing conditions right, it will flower nearly year round.

Sweet...

(Fuzzy Leaf 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...

(Grapeleaf Begonia, Thick-stemmed Begonia)

Attractive green leaves with a light glossy finish and shaped like a more rounded grapeleaf, Begonia reniformis displays upright, wipsy clusters of white flowers intermittently year round. A tender perennial native to Brazil, this species is regarded as a thick-stemmed begonia, growing tall, fleshy stems that rarely branch and can become quite wood-like with age.

The leaves are bright medium green and held out on love, grooved petiole stems in a horizontal manner. Each leaf blade is...

(Begonia, Thick-stemmed 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...

(Begonia Family)

Distinguished by its rosette of stiff, smooth, slender reddish-bronze leaves and by its ornamental, inedible fruit, this evergreen terrestrial bromeliad from northern South America is a close relative of the commercial pineapple. The purplish-white flowers and small, reddish, pineapple-like fruit appear on a stalk that arises from the center of the leaf rosette.

Red spineless pineapple needs a well drained soil and full to partial sun. Insufficient sunlight will result in dull green rather than...

(Belamcanda)

(Blackberry Lily, Leopard Flower)

The fruits and flowers of this charming, but heavily self-sowing, perennial add appeal to the summer garden. Blackberry lily is an old fashioned flower that originates from Russia, China and India. It forms upright clumps of stiff, sword-like leaves of medium green. In summer, tall, airy, branched stems appear topped with orange lily-like flowers with red and yellow markings. These are followed by clusters of small, round, glossy black fruits that look much like blackberries.

Drought tolerant...