Marksbegonias' Inbox

I'd swear they were roses. So beautiful.

Lovely blooms, nice foliage.

These are beautiful.

What gorgeous leaves.

Morris Minor, brings back memories....

Very nice.

Is this the Euphorbia milii? So nice, love the colour.

Ohh I love those! Very special.

So beautiful! Is this in your garden?

Exquisite.

Fantastic, love those blooms.

So pretty, lovely colour.

"Unauthorised cuttings" ? LOL. What on earth are those ? I've never heard of anything so daft !

There's a beautiful colour on this one : o)

Beautiful orange.

You've got quite the fuchsia collection going on there now!

The garden police will be coming to see you!

That's different! I would never have identified it as a begonia.

Love it!

lovely colour

I've just seen Jaque's photo of Shrimp Cocktail. It's very pretty. Oh dear, The trouble with Fuchsias is the more I see the more I want !
Since I've lived here I've lost some of mine because I don't have anywhere decent to keep them in winter. So I'm going to a Fuchsia nursery near Barry today to get some replacements. Between the replacements and any others that will find their way into the trolly , and also my friend's who is just as fanatical as me, I hope there'll be enough room in the car . lol

Mark - BEWARE of T&M, won't you! Lots of us have had bad experiences with plants from them.

Hi, Re Fuchsias - "Shrimp Cocktail" - I've never heard of that one. It must be new. I'll look forward to seeing what it's like. "Dollar Princess" is hardy. I've got a photo of it, and two photos of "Swingtime", take a look if you like. I started growing them a number of years ago when a colleague brought some cuttings to work. Then I saw a new Fuchsia nursery near Carmarthen so I could buy often and over the years I've built up quite a collection. I find them addictive. Hope you enjoy them.

Knowing how successful you are with Begonias, Mark, I have no doubt that you will grow wonderful Fuchsias too. How you would transport Delphiniums in full bloom I really cannot imagine! Good luck!!!

So do I Gillian, but i just don't have anywhere to overwinter them, darn it !

I bought this one this year as well and accidently gave it away to a neighbour !! lol , its starting to flower and looks good , im not too worried il get it back at the end of the year to over winter it for her and get cuttings in the spring

My fuchsias are very slow to flower this year as well , but are starting to show buds at last , the Begonias on the other hand are amazing , never a dull moment with plants eh ? you never know whats going to heppen with them ! lol

Are you straying from begonias into fuchsias?
The ones you ordered look great, will be exciting when they flower and you can post your own photos.

Like you Mark I love Fuchsias. I've got about 140 diferent varieties. But they're all hopeless this year. I was going to post lots of photos of them but there are very few flowers as yet. I think it's because I don't have anywhere to keep them properly since moving here, and the weather has been so bad aswell. I've never entered them into a show. I would become a bag of nerves doing a thing like that.
Deep purple is a particularly showy one. Put photos of them when they flower won't you. I'd be interested to see what other varieties you've got. : ) As for Begonias I like them but don't have much success. I think the foliage leaf ones are my favourites, although I do like the pendulous ones aswell.

Gosh this really could get confusing, It's such a habit to use all these sayings that it takes some actual thought NOT to use them. Yet again I used something that I thought was universal (faux pas) I guess if I was 16 I'd have said "My Bad". lol Oh well, we are all products of our environments. Oh no again, stop it, stop it...lol