These long-blooming beauties one of Martha's favorite plants.

With all the talk of downy mildew on impatiens, gardeners are searching for alternatives to brighten their shade gardens. Although nothing can really match the colorful show of Impatiens walleriana, ...

It's not required but will help increase blooms.

Watch young begonia plants flourish under sunlight as new growth develops vibrant color and texture. This garden update ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solenia Apricot begonia offers garden joy with the rarest color in the market. Years ago I had the opportunity to visit gardens in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red begonias in garden. The begonia is a much-loved perennial to have in a backyard. Not only is it relatively low maintenance, ...

In spring garden centers stock a tempting variety of brightly colored tuberous begonias that are hard to resist. Gardeners have a tremendous choice of flower color in shades of orange, pink, yellow, ...

We think we know begonias: those round waxen blobs with white or pink icing sold in six-packs; the speckled thing your grandmother grew or the gaudy plumed ornaments that thrive along the coast. But ...

All right, begonia lovers, there’s a new kid on the block with the crazy name: ‘Funky Pink.’ Hybridized by Benary Seed and picked up by Proven Winners, it’s an interspecific cross between the begonia ...

HAVE YOU noticed a dazzling new orange fuchsia in nurseries lately? Turns out this enticing mound of flowers isn’t a fuchsia at all, but a Bolivian begonia, which isn’t even kin to the fuchsias it so ...

When you spend all your time in a book, you think you know it. All the editors at Merriam-Webster know Webster’s Third Edition, but now that we’re undertaking a revision of the beast, we’re ears-deep ...

The year was 1956. I was 8 years old and my family was on vacation on the California coast. We were traveling up Highway 101 and came to the town of Capitola, near Santa Cruz. There along the side of ...