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Shade Container Fail: Rex Begonias - August 2021

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Sharing a note about Rex Begonias here in my garden diary .  I bought a few different cultivars of them and really LOVE them.  Unfortunately, they all failed.  For different reasons.  But, they all failed.  I want to try them again next year, but have learned a few lessons.  First, a little bit of learning about Rex Begonias.  I put them in containers on our front porch and back patio.  They're on this list from Garden Design of good shade plants for containers .  And, I think they are "good".  They are knock-outs looks-wise. But, they're not easy to care for (imho).   First, let's talk about the back patio failure.  I had these lovely pink/peach begonias in the white container on the stairs.   Earlier this year, we had a hard cycle of first drought, then an extended period (around the 4th of July) of rain.  It turns out, this container had a plug in the bottom of it.  It *has* a whole, but we were using it as a sort-of display container last year with a nursery c