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Hi. My name is Kirsten Segler from The Greenery and in this short segment, we
want to talk about
these large trailing type begonias. We class them as vegetative
begonias.
Fairly new on the market and they've just been
trialing out as awesome types of begonias, sorted to replace some of the
varieties that hasn't been around for a while, the double blooming non stop tuberous
yet way more bulk and volume. Out of these, they're mildew resistant. It's
on real. As you can see right now, this is the second week of September
and they don't have any signs and mildew on
most to these. Maybe just a little bit starting here on this one. I will do a small
introduction on
these varieties behind me the next minute or two. One of the first varieties to
come on to the market
in this family of begonias, as this one here,
as another basket in the far side. These are the same variety.
This one's called Bonfire and if you like a firecracker type flower to it,
extreme vigor,
no deadheading on this one. You just can't beat it.
And the other thing I didn't mention in the intro about these types of begonias is they take a lot more Sun
than that typical begonias can. We've been working with them
on the northwest side of the house
and even on the plain west side and they've done
extremely well in that case too. Moving moving along this way,
this one is called Million Kisses Elegance.
Real soft pink look. A
little more compact as you can see this one is. Just a
really nice performer. As always trialed out
very good for us. Like this one,
it was our first year this year doing this one and holy cow!
A more darker red than the Bonfire. A shorter,
stubbier type flower but a little broader to it.
It's called Sparkled Scarlet. Again, no signs
of mildew on this. Just an awesome looking
long basket. Now you don't have to
just plant these in hanging baskets. We use them in mixed
hanging baskets or planters. On the edge of a planter, just put a plant in
there
and we'll maybe show you a couple of clips later on in this feature of
what i'm talking about. They sort of drape over the edge
and give you a little bit of color in a shade planter or half-day sun, half-day
shade
containers as well. This one here
close to the middle, great
little addition, great black leaves to it with the contrasting
orange firecracker type flower.
Given a couple names, I believe the most common one
is Glowing Embers and another name is "Sparks Will Fly"
and it's a burby introduction and
like I said, our first year selling it
and it was very popular mainly because of
its dark foliage. It works very well for wall bags too.
We do a fair bit of wall bags for this variety. It's a really good seller that way.
The Bon Bons; this is the Bon Bon Cherry. I think I've actually mentioned this in our
top performers of 2012.
It was in there, we had a Bon Bon mixed baskets.
And again, well here it is.
Flowering all season long. Used a lot again in wall bags because it is a little
more compact.
Kind of a neat eye to this one.
Yellow double part to the
the center. So more of an open flower on this variety.
I just love it. And another new selection,
we just started doing this one this season. As they've got a kind of
darker leaf to it as well but that same kind of narrow,
long leaf with the draping flowers.
And this one is called Million Kisses
Amour and it pretty sure will become one of our best sellers
like the Bonfire. Another type of more of an open-faced
flower to it. Some blush on the back,
white on that side of the petal.
It's called Angel Falls Soft Pink.
Angel Falls Soft Pink. And again,
no mildew on it, lighter green leaf to it.
A little more of a typical style
look to it like the traditional type begonias.
But again, it's a perfect ball habit to it and I think this one will do well
in wall bags too.
Well that's a wrap on the varieties we have hanging here.
So again, if you had a lot issues with mildew
which we'll be hearing from customers. Mildew season are getting more and
more
prevalent over the past few years
with the old-fashioned type begonias,
well then you should give these a shot because
for mildew resistance, nothing
has done better than these type of begonias.
There is one variety we didn't mention in this segment because we actually didn't have a
hanging basket left to the end the season to
trial out but we do have it planted in some mixed planters
around the back so come on and follow me and we'll show you how great it looks in that
situation.
And here we go. This begonia is called the Dragon
Wing begonia. And I think it's been around longer than the Bonfire.
A little more upright habit to it. So it doesn't have that long, soft trailing habit
like the
varieties that were hanging in the display there. It sort of has
rigid stocks that come up like this and then
that's why it works perfect in this situation. We've kind of got your
soft trailing plants around the front and then as a
backdrop in front of your centerpiece, you can use the Dragon Wing
to sort of come out in this habit and
as you can see, it kind of have that leaf that's shaped like a dragon wing
and these nice, dark red clusters of flowers that will come out
from the side branches.
And my favorite part about this variety of begonia is
as fall approaches, you will get
the leaves turning almost a bright red especially if they're located
again
in a situation, really getting some sun.
This begonia can take at least a half day of sun. So this starts
turning red on the edge and that red color will move into the center
of the leaves. Just really great type of
begonia.