Begonia Parade 2

 
Here is the second group of begonia pictures from the 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show. Today's focus will be on color variation in the leaves. Although, sometimes it's hard to choose whether to focus on colors or textures. I have a couple more for tomorrow with definitely interesting textures, but you could make a case that I should have saved this first one from today for that group.

In any case, begonias are amazing in their variety of leaves (let alone some of the great, pure colors of the flowers). You could group them by shape, color, or texture.

This one is Begonia 'Marmaduke.'



I've encountered Begonia 'Looking Glass' before, in an all-white garden at the 2011 Philadelphia Flower Show. But this picture shows it much better, by itself.



Next we have green with red spots in Begonia 'Harmony Ray Glow.'



The solid and intense red color in these leaves is sometimes seen in the simple bedding plants you can get at any garden store in the spring, but this is Begonia 'Manaus.' And this one took a blue ribbon, and two special recognition awards from the American Begonia Society.



Let's flip the colors from above. Now we have redish leaves with green spots in Begonia 'Kit Kat.'



Today's last one is a tiny specimen in a terrarium. Its color and shape almost make it look like a coleus. This is Begonia 'Rex Cultorum.'



Plants are amazing. There are almost 400,000 species, let alone the varieties within the species- such as begonias- once the gardeners start tinkering with them. I'll never run out of things to learn.

In other news: today was a complete loss. I couldn't sleep last night and felt like crap all day. Could not get moving at all. Of course the risk is that I'll wake up at 9 pm and repeat the cycle all over again tomorrow. But I hope not.

	See Begonia Parade 1
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