Episode 281, part 9: Begonia 'Thurstonii'
On The Ledge
Jane Perrone
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today I consider the only shrublike begonia that made it into my top ten: Begonia 'Thurstonii'.
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| 0:29.6 | Music Hello and welcome to part nine of my top 10 begonias. And today's begonia is begonia Thirstonia. |
| 0:51.8 | The first begonia in the top 10 that I don't currently own. Consider this a call-out. |
| 0:57.5 | For anyone in the UK who has begonia Thirstonia and wants to do a swap, get in touch. Because I would |
| 1:04.6 | love a piece of this begonia and I'm going to explain why it's made its way into my top 10. Oh and thank you to |
| 1:13.2 | Andrew who took up a free trial of the legend level of my Patreon and then became a member. Welcome |
| 1:20.9 | Andrew. Great to have you on board and I will be recording a bonus episode on begonias for Patreon which will be going out |
| 1:30.3 | next week which talks about some of the bologna's that didn't make the list and why |
| 1:35.2 | yes I am looking at you bagonia luxury ants |
| 1:38.9 | begonia thirstonia is a hybrid begonia that is classed as a shrub-like begonia, and this is the first in the top ten of |
| 1:53.0 | borgonias for usual room conditions that counts in this category. So it's pretty obvious what that means. |
| 2:00.8 | Shrub-like, it gets big and shrubby. It doesn't |
| 2:03.4 | grow a single stem. It tends to bush out and get large. This bologna can get up to about a |
| 2:12.2 | meter tall. If you've never come across the shrub-like bologonias, I'll stick something in the show notes from the American begonia society, which gives you some examples and descriptions. |
| 2:23.1 | If you know begonias, other shrub-like begonias you might have heard of include begonia Listerda and begonia Metallica. |
| 2:31.3 | And, interesting, we mention Metallica, because in fact, Metallica is one of the parents of Thurstonia. |
| 2:39.2 | I think we can safely describe begonia Thurstonia as a heritage begonia. It was first brought onto the |
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