Begonia grandis (pink) Low Stock and give a darker backdrop

and give a darker backdrop to set off the green

Like all crossvines

carries the name of the man who in 1923 hauled recording equipment south to Atlanta and captured the first commercial sides of country and blues

'Fortunei' is the old variegated form

the species may prove hardy as far north as zone 6

Begonia grandis (pink) Low Stock and give a darker backdropHardy 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,