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Begonias in the Mist: Seeds
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Begonias in the Mist. Tuesday, February 12, 2013. 8220;Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”. 8213; Robert Louis Stevenson. We’re planting begonia seeds again. We’ll drop over 2 million little begonia seeds and hope for the best. Have you ever thought about seeds? Seeds are like little time capsules, little messengers of hope for the future. Planting seeds is to throw your lot in with the future. Little packets of information. 8213; L.M. Montgomery. A template....
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Begonias in the Mist: March 2014
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Begonias in the Mist. Wednesday, March 5, 2014. So we built a little greenhouse. We discussed it for years, my wife and I. My wife does not share my appreciation for greenhouses and did not want one of the repellent plastic things in her garden. We compromised. Let me take a little time to explain what we have built here. It’s a SierraGreenhouse. We settled on a little used hillside just down from the solar panels. Unused, except by deer. We excavated a pad in the hillside to accommodate the house. I loo...
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Begonias in the Mist: Breeding Scent in Tuberous Begonias
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Begonias in the Mist. Thursday, July 19, 2012. Breeding Scent in Tuberous Begonias. Happiness is a scented begonia. The Gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.". Breeding scent in tuberous begonias, and getting those begonias to market, has been both a real challenge and a real pleasure. Some of the original species used in the development of the tuberous begonia had scent (B. cinnabarina ,B. baumannii,. B foliosa var.miniata,. He cros...
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Begonias in the Mist: Begonia Breeding at Golden State Bulb Growers
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Begonias in the Mist. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Begonia Breeding at Golden State Bulb Growers. This post contains a lengthy description of our begonia breeding program, I am afraid it will be terribly boring for the general reader (and maybe everyone else too). When I became the begonia breeder for Golden State Bulb Growers (at that time the Brown Bulb Ranch) the Begonia x Tuberhybrida was already a well established product with a world wide market. The ideal flower is, however, sterile. I strive, as a...
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Begonias in the Mist: What's in a Name
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Begonias in the Mist. Tuesday, September 18, 2012. What's in a Name. Among the many varied tasks I was assigned during my first year working for the Brown Bulb Ranch was covering our logo on shipping boxes. All our boxes had, reasonably enough, our logo. We had spray paint that was exactly the color of new cardboard and I would turn our logo boxes into generic boxes. This puzzled me at the time. Wouldn’t we want the recipient of the boxes to know where the begonias came from? Because we considered oursel...
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Begonias in the Mist: Paul Carlisle
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Begonias in the Mist. Sunday, September 9, 2012. If you like tuberous begonias you should see what this guy does with them. Paul is a begonia grower extraordinaire. He knows all his tubers and their history. He has an incredible way with his plants. I first met Paul at the American Begonia Society convention in San Francisco in 2010. We had talked on the phone a couple of times before the event and he invited me up to speak to the convention. I liked him right off and we have kept in touch ever since.
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Begonias in the Mist: August 2013
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Begonias in the Mist. Friday, August 2, 2013. The Next New Thing and this years Pack Trials. Golden State Bulb Growers’ participation in the California Pack Trials. All the begonias for next season's harvest are already planted. I had hoped to write, in a timely manner, on all these activities, but it’s amazing how the days go when the pace picks up. The pack trials were very well attended this year. An upswing in our industry? California Pack trials are all about what’s new. 8220;Umm, no.”. Tuberous beg...
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Begonias in the Mist: Tuberous Begonias, Color Photos by Ansel Adams
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Begonias in the Mist. Saturday, January 26, 2013. Tuberous Begonias, Color Photos by Ansel Adams. 8220;The Mockingbird Flower”. September 19, 1950 Life Magazine. The text reads: U.S BREEDERS GLAMORIZE ONCE HOMELY BEGONIA. When Charles Plumier, the French botanist, came upon a strange new flower in the West Indies about 1690, he named it for Santo Domingo’s Governor Michel Begon and took home a specimen. The little wildflower has been turned into one of the most spectacular. These firms have developed so ...
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