Begonia Double Stars & others

Think it has been as good a year for Begonias as for Roses
Have sweet dreams like that one, and Iceberg brings back memory's one of the first I grew along with Peace ,
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Your basket looks great wonder variety of garden flowers and roses gorgeous

Lovely photos of your flowers , my roses have done very well this year also.

Really lovely show of colours G'finger,your Begonia's have done you proud and the roses are gorgeous.
I found it has been the Fuschia's that have taken a long while to get started and the beds and borders had a long time between the spring display and the summer ones, we had weeks whereby although not particularly sunny weather, we just didn't get any rain, then of course it came and forgot to stop for days on end, quite nice and colourful now though...

You have some super plants GreenF, your roses are fabulous ?

Lovely pics, and you have made me drool over the Crocosmia George Davison - those especially caught my eye :)

Lovely selection of Roses, and the Begonias look great in the basket.

Everything is looking good. Love the double star begonias. ill be looking for those.

Thank you for your kind comments. Most of the roses are ones I had before in another garden, it felt like old friends returning when I bought them. The giant daisy stopped me in my tracks so had to have that, flowers are 5ins across!
I'd like to overwinter the begonias as I really like the spiky shape & colour of this variety but not had any joy with previous attempts.

Storing the tubers in a cardboard box wrapped in newspaper in the basement worked for me

I'll have to keep trying, GG said he thinks these basket ones are so floriferous they don't get time to make good tubers.

Not really, the tubers must have their resting period. The challenge is preventing mold growth, but you don't want them too too dry either, or they turn to dust. I find my cool dark basement closet the perfect solution.

They will sprout little 'eyes' like potatoes when they are ready to wake up, but you want to make sure all threat of frost is past before planting them out.

Lovely Echinacea. The above parts of the Echinacea purpurea are used in herbal remedies; the roots of Echinacea pallida are used to treat influenza symptoms.
A pretty plant that earns its keep and your "Art's Pride" is big and beautiful.

Ah you might have just hit on what I've been doing wrong, all this time I have been drying them off, dusting with yellow sulphur & packing away in coir, peat, wood shavings or whatever dry material I can find. When I unpack them they just crumble.

Eirlys, there is no conclusive evidence showing that echinacea products treat or prevent the common cold, cancer or anything else, its modern use for the common cold began when a Swiss herbal supplement maker was "erroneously told" that echinacea was used for cold prevention by Native American tribes.
It's one of those myths that has stuck.

I agree with you regarding the Begonias, ours have been good this year, roses not so good., unfortunately....btw a fantastic choice of roses, hope they all do well for you...

DD, They have all put on significant growth & flowered away, some still have buds but as it's colder doubt those will open.
I thought I had lost my dahlias but one appeared & has put out some buds but so late in the year unlikely to flower now - so disappointing.

Do you leave them in the ground?

I always mean to dig them up but somehow I rarely do so they end up taking their chances.

Beautiful selection you have there.

Thank you, 3d, glad you like it.

I certainly do lovely collection of Roses to.