Begonia grandis (pink) Low Stock this fast-growing shrub flowers not

this fast-growing shrub flowers not in spring or summer like a well-behaved plant but in autumn and into early winter

timed to the spring run of shad up the rivers

and give a darker backdrop to set off the green

betraying the citrus kinship at once

soft-textured juvenile-foliage form with an unusual and well-documented history

Begonia grandis (pink) Low Stock this fast-growing shrub flowers notHardy begonia is the surprise of the shade border: a true begonia that survives a cold winter. Begonia grandis carries large, pointed, olive green leaves lit with red veins and flushed deep rose red beneath, and in late summer and fall hangs loose clusters of soft pink flowers on red tinted stems, a cool, luminous note when most shade plants have finished. Native to eastern Asia, hardy begonia rises each year from tuber like roots and spreads gently,