Dear Helen: I found that my begonia tubers had already produced long sprouts when I opened their shoe box in my cold room. Until the second week of this month, the winter weather had been very mild.

If space is available, the baskets holding the tubers can be placed in a frost-free storage place, ideally at temperatures ...

Hanging-basket begonias will often flower through October. The tubers store well in cool but frost-free conditions. Dear Helen: Even though I planted them a bit late, my hanging basket begonias have ...

For many years, begonias have been considered out of fashion - viewed as gaudy and a little too much. While Victorian bedding ...

I never used to bother with digging and storing summer-blooming bulbs, such as dahlias, gladiolus, elephant ears, and more. I thought it was too much work. But last fall I was in a friend’s garden and ...

Q. I’ve been surprised at how long the tuberous begonias I have in hanging baskets have been in bloom. They are still full of flowers, but there must be some point at which I’ll have to bring them ...

After more than 40 years I don’t often get asked a new gardening question. On the occasion that I do, it is usually about some new plant or a new tool or technique. So it was a bit of a surprise last ...

Angels are not a common preoccupation of garden designers, but they might well be if a designer is working in a conceptual milieu where narrative is important, and the client is an institution with a ...

SUMMER-flowering bulbs and corms, such as gladioli and begonias, need to be dug up within the next few weeks so they can be safely stored for the winter. Although you can take a chance and leave them ...

Gardeners who prize dahlias, cannas and gladiolus are faced with a choice: buy new every year, or dig them up, store them over the winter, and replant them each spring.