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Glad to hear you're keeping your photos on here - love begonias and I really enjoy all your shots. I use Flickr as well. It's so easy to use and, as you say, it's not just garden related - you can create sets of photos on there ... gardening could be just one set. Will be looking out for Marksbegonias on Flickr as well.

i must bring my begaonias in for the winter. thanks for the timely reminder.

I'm glad that you like the photos. I shall have to try to sort my flickr photos out a bit better and put them in sets, before i loose track of what i have on there.
Good luck getting your plants in, i don't think we've had a real frost yet. I've found the stems go all soggy and disintigrate if they're left out too long.

Nice to have you back, Mark! We are the BEST on GOY!!! I've grown begonias for the very first time - 'Aromantics' and 'Candy Frills'. Now all I have to do is keep them safe until next year! :-))

Glad to be back, and you're right GOY is the best - it's much better to be informed when there is a comment, then i can read it and have the opportunity to reply, if appropriate.
I must say i hadn't actually left, but due to lack of time i haven't been on here as much lately. But i'm not bothering to put all my picture up at gardeners click now, so that will save some time.
I will put my picture on flickr, though i may not put all my pictures that are on here onto flickr as well - but flickr is super fast at uploading pictures.
Good luck with your Begonias, by the way.

Thanks. Any advice from our expert please? (YOU!) lol.

I would never class myself as an expert, but i'm certainly happy to offer any advice that helps.

Thanks, Mark. :-)) Would the tubers/corms be best in dry compost, or in sawdust for the winter? In the shed - or greenhouse?

I know that a lot of growers keep their tubers in dry peat / compost over winter. I've not heard any say they use sawdust, but it may well work.
I tend to keep my tubers in seed trays, with an elastic band round to hold the right label with the right tuber, where i can see them. I check them over regularly for any sign of the vine weevil. If they are there you will see little holes in the tuber, and there is likely to be a little pile of what looks like sawdust (it's the tuber where they have burrowed into the tuber). Once you get vine weevil they move from tuber to tuber meaning you loose a lot, if not all of your stock. I would check from time to time even if you do bury them for the winter. The little white grubs are what do the damage, i believe they will eat the roots of any plant, especialy in tubs or pots.
I haven't had any problems with not keeping them buried, they seem to start OK usually, as well as they did when i kept them in peat anyway. They don't all always start.
I always keep my tubers in my heated greenhouse, but they should be Ok anywhere providing the frost doesn't get them. I've heard some growers saying they take theirs into a spare room in the house.