Strawberry Begonias Blooming Slow April Zone 7
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| Saxifraga stolonifera Strawberry Begonia flowers |
The photograph is inwards our dorsum garden nether an oak tree where vi plants became a ground-cover iii feet deep too 6 feet broad inwards 2 years.
Saxifraga stolonifera, whose native hit includes China, Nippon too South Korea, is non a strawberry, nor is it a begonia. Sometimes it's called Strawberry Geranium, too.
It's mutual coldness hardy solely inwards zones 6 to nine too thrives inwards total to part-shade. And, it is non bothered yesteryear insects or disease.
The cite Saxifrage comes from saxum (rock) too frangere (break) to illustrate the plant's mightiness to scramble over rocks. Stolonifera refers to the fact that the institute spreads yesteryear stolons, creating plantlets everywhere they trail.
In colder zones than ours, they are grown equally houseplants inwards hanging planters where the plantlets are allowed to hang over the border of the pot.
Plant Delights Nursery offers them for sale if you'd similar to larn them growing inwards containers or nether a tree at your home. Their explanation of the cite is slightly different, "The cite saxifraga comes from the Latin for "stone-breaker" equally certainly species alive on rocks too post their roots downwards into the fissures, causing them to cleft opened upwardly fifty-fifty more. The genus saxifraga is a closed cousin to other ornamental perennials including mukdenia, boykinia, bergenia, too astilboides. The Japanese swallow the leaves of Saxifraga stolonifera, fresh or cooked."
Now you're hungry to convey some, aren't you? If y'all are inwards Muskogee, I'll portion closed to plantlets alongside you.