Hello and welcome to Deva Week part four. Yes, we're still going. I hope you're enjoying

these bite-sized episodes with tips on

caring for the plants that sometimes cause us house plant keepers a few headaches. And today's

plant is begonia maculata, YTI, the polka dot begonia. That features in the On the L the ledge logo so we couldn't miss out on this one

and joining me today is daniel from melbourne who is the face behind the instagram account minsterra

and i'll put a link to that account in the show notes where you can have a look at some

gorgeous begonia maculata whitey eyes, which Daniel has been growing.

So he's clearly the right person to be talking to about taking care of these plants.

One thing I've noticed doing these interviews that all the people I speak to say, well, I don't find it that hard to grow.

Well, of course, you don't find it that hard to grow. Well, of course,

you don't find it that hard to grow because you're the expert on growing this plant. For the rest of us mere mortals, we will continue to struggle. But Daniel was really helpful in highlighting lots of

issues to be aware of with this plant. So let's crack right on and hear from Daniel

about how to make your begone immaculata whitey eye happy. Daniel, we are here to talk about

a certain spotty plant that features on the on the ledge logo. So I thought it was important

to include it here you are on your

instagram i've seen your minsterra instagram there are some beautiful pictures of this plant

begonia maculat and whitey eye so where do we start with this one i see a lot of people putting

this on their instagram when they first buy it and it looks kind of nice

and then it doesn't appear so much anymore which may give an indication that sometimes this

plant is a little bit tricksy can you tell us where people go wrong for me it's never been a

particularly divory plant but I can understand because it is different in its care

compared to a lot of those other aeroids that people tend to collect on Instagram.

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