Tip of the Week — 5/27/08
Posted in Gardening Tips on May 27th, 2008 by Sonia Uyterhoeven – Be the first to commentAnnual Affairs
Sonia Uyterhoeven is Gardener for Public Education at The New York Botanical Garden.
For nonstop color in the garden, you really can’t beat annuals. For those of you who are not blessed with bright sunshine, last year we featured quite a few begonias in the Garden and I have a deepening respect for the plants.
We planted a number of Rex Begonias as an ornamental ground cover. During the latter half of the summer I would make flashy floral centerpieces by combining the begonia’s bright foliage with the silver-pink swirls of roses and hydrangeas. When I lived in Massachusetts, I used to keep my dappled borders bright with the nonstop begonias (tuberous begonias). The apricot and pinks were so beautiful that I would add them to shady containers to complement my coleus and fuchsias.