Summer 2018 saw my front porch filled with flowers along with the yard and my favorite were the Angel Begonias.
Angel Wing Begonia
They have a beautiful, delicate pink cluster bloom.
I want to make sure I have more of these come spring so I’ve plucked stems from the plant which I’m storing upstairs in our guest room.
The leaves of this plant are shaped like angel wings and gives it the name of Angel-Winged Begonia.
I bring all of my house plants in the house in mid-September and take them back outdoors in early June. To start the plants I pinch stems close to the center of the plant and any that are growing really fast and getting leggy. I’ve done this to my Prayer Plant and Goosefoot Fern.
Pothos stems starting in the kitchen window.
Prayer Plant starts in the kitchen window.
I don’t add anything to the stems to get them to start and usually in 10-14 days new roots are showing at each notch of the stem. In the spring I’ll plant all of the stems of each plant in large individual pots. The pots will have a good quality potting soil and two tablespoons of epsom salt and they take off. By August the Angel-winged begonia will be full of bloom if not before and the prayer plant will have delicate white blooms. I love growing plants.
House plants in the guest room.
House plants and different cacti in the upstairs foyer.
Some of my houseplants here were grown from debris removed from landscapes in the Los Angeles region. Several specie of Ficus are grown as evergreen shade trees and hedges there. (There are a few that I have not been able to root.) A pair of Ficus benjamina reached the ceiling and flared out over the dining room. A lemon gum eucalyptus did the same in the parlor. That might be why birds so often tried to nest in my home.
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