Episode 281, part 1: introducing my top ten Begonias
On The Ledge
Jane Perrone
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
I introduce my top ten begonias, starting with the eyelash begonia, Begona bowerae - an absolutely brilliant and tough begonia species everyone can grow.
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| 0:29.6 | Music Hello and welcome to my Begonia Top 10, part one. |
| 0:51.0 | It all starts here with Begonia Bowery. |
| 0:59.2 | Yes, if you didn't listen to last week's episode, I'm doing a top ten of my favourite |
| 1:04.7 | begonias for the average room, and I'm parceling out the episodes one a day, Monday to Friday, over the next |
| 1:12.8 | two weeks. |
| 1:16.8 | Usually I put out a show every other Friday, but I wanted to do something a little bit different. |
| 1:23.6 | I've done this in the past where I've done a diva week and a trailing plants week, |
| 1:29.4 | but this time I am going to be profiling my top 10 begonias. Now let's just set the terms of |
| 1:36.6 | reference before we really get going. What do I mean by begonias? There's obviously got to be |
| 1:42.7 | some kind of narrowing down of the plants that I mention because begonias, there's obviously got to be some kind of narrowing down of the plants that I mention |
| 1:46.8 | because begonia is a really large genus. I am talking here about begonia that can be |
| 1:53.1 | successfully grown indoors in the average room. So I'm not talking about things in IKEA greenhouse |
| 2:00.6 | cabinets or under glass |
| 2:02.6 | closhes or in terrariums. I'm talking about plants that are in a room without any extra |
| 2:09.0 | protection. That will still look great if you look after them right. So this is going to be a mix |
| 2:16.2 | of cane, rex and rhizomatous begonias and I'll explain |
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