"Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants."
Rex Begonia
(texture portrait)
Rex Cultorum Begonia
Monday, December 06, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Thank you for the honor, dear BLOTANICAL friends
( musings of a 'HO-HUM HOUSEWIFE' )
About Me
Blog Archive
Bloomfield Village, MI
2009 BEST MICHIGAN BLOG
Thank you for the honor, dear BLOTANICAL friends
Followers
Posts
Facebook Badge
FOOD HAUNTS
- 101 Coobooks
- Barefoot Contessa
- Beyond Salmon
- CHOW (Food.Drink.Fun.)
- Cook's Thesaurus
- Cooking with Amy
- Dinner Tonight
- Dog Hill Kitchen
- Food & Wine
- Food and Paper
- Foodista
- Kalyn's Kitchen
- Key Ingredient
- La Tartine Gourmande
- Luna Pier Cook
- Memories in the Baking
- Michigan Lady Food Bloggers
- Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea
- Mother's Kitchen
- My French Kitchen
- Nigella.com
- Once Upon a Chef
- Once Upon a Plate
- One Perfect Bite
- Simply Recipes
- Smitten Kitchen
- StarChefs (magazine for cuinary insiders)
- Suite 101
- Sunset (Food-Wine)
- The Wooden Spoon
- Wine Blog Watch
- redacted recipes
GARDENING HAUNTS
- A Chef in the Garden
- A Gardener in Progress
- A Photographer's Garden
- A Study in Contrasts
- A Way to Garden
- American Peony Society
- An Artist's Garden
- BG Garden
- bloomingwriter
- Blotanical
- Clay and Limestone
- Colors of the Garden
- Curbstone Valley Farm
- Dave's Garden
- Defining Your Home Garden
- Dirt Simple
- Dirt Therapy
- Does Everything Grow Better in My Neighbor's Yard?
- Doug's Garden Blog
- Dragonflycorner
- Dung Hoe Gardening
- Edith Hope's Garden Journal
- Fairegarden (Frances)
- Ferns of the Northwoods
- Fine Gardening
- Flower Hill Farm
- Flowergardengirl
- Flowers & Weeds
- Fresh Dirt (Sunset)
- Garden Bloggers
- Garden Designers Roundtable
- Garden Endeavors
- Garden Faerie's Musings
- Garden Girl
- Garden Humor
- Garden Rant
- Garden Voices
- Garden Walk Garden Talk
- Garden Wise Living (Arlena)
- Gardening and Yardening (Michigan)
- Gardening with Confidence
- GardenJoy4Me (Joy)
- Gardenology
- Gatsby Gardens
- Gingerbread
- Gotta Garden
- Greenish Thumb (Wendy)
- Heirloom Gardener
- HGTV Gardening
- High Altitude Gardening
- Hoe & Shovel
- Home & Garden Showplace
- Hydrangeas! Hydrangeas!
- In the Garden Online
- International Flower Bulb Centre
- iVillage Garden Web Forums
- Kate Smudges
- Let's Go Gardening (uk)
- Life in Robin's Nest
- Lilacs and Roses
- Mama Mia Days
- Mich's West Coast Journal
- Michigan Forest Association
- Michigan Garden Websites
- MONROVIA
- Mouse & Trowel (2010)
- Mr. McGregor's Daughter
- MSU EXTENSION
- Muddy Boot Dreams
- My Garden Guide (Plant Encyclopedia, Gardening Resources, Tutorials, FAQs)
- My Secret Garden
- Nancy's Garden Blog
- National Gardening Association
- Natuure Rambles (Kanak)
- Natuure Rambles (Kanak)
- Northern Michigan's Native Plants
- Notes from a Cottage Garden
- Nutty Gnome
- Orchids
- Our Little Acre
- Our Little Corner of Paradise (Wildlife Gardener)
- Perennial Garden Lover
- Perennial Plant Association
- Philip's Garden Blog
- Plant Whatever Brings You Joy!
- Potager (Linda)
- Prairie Rose's Garden
- Pride of Place Plants
- Proven Winners (Flowering shrubs)
- Proven Winners (plants & grasses)
- Red Dirt Ramblings
- Roses and Stuff
- Royal Horticultural society (RHS Plant Find)
- Shabby~Chic Cat's Gardening Close~Ups
- Soliloquy
- Studio G
- Sustainable Gardening (Garden Blogs by region)
- Sweet Home and Garden Chicago
- Terra Farmer
- Thanks for 2 Day
- The American Hosta Society
- The Gardener Guy (Paul James)
- The Herb Companion
- The Idiot Gardener
- The Inadvertent Farmer
- The Michigan School of Gardening
- The Obsessive Gardener
- The Patient Gardener
- The Vermont Gardener
- The Whimsical Gardener
- Things I Love
- Thyme for Herbs
- Toronto Gardens
- Two Women and a Hoe
- Tyra's Garden
- Vert Pom
- View From The Pines
- Voice in the Garden
- WISNIK WOODS
- Wisteria and Cow Parsley
MICHIGAN HAUNTS
- ABSOLUTE MICHIGAN
- Black Star Farms
- Bowers Harbor Vineyards
- Brys Estate Vineyard and Winery
- BUILDINGS of DETROIT
- Chateau Chantal
- Chateau Grand Traverse
- Detroit Area Blogs (mlive.com)
- DNR (Wildflowers)
- Gill's Pier Vineyard & Winery
- Good Harbor Vineyards
- Good Harbor Vineyards
- HUBBARD LAKE Sportsman & Improvement Assn.
- L. Mawby Vineyards
- Leelanau Wine Cellars
- Left Foot Charley
- m.live.com
- Mich Wine (online consumer guide)
- MICHIGAN AUDUBON SOCIETY
- Michigan Historical Markers
- MICHIGAN LIGHTHOUSE CONSERVANCY
- MICHIGAN LOON PRESERVATION
- Michigan Morel Madness
- MICHIGAN WINE COUNTRY
- mlive. com
- model D (DETROIT)
- MSU Turf Weeds.net.
- MyNorth.com (Northern Michigan)
- NORTHERN MICHIGAN BIRDING
- Peninsula Cellars
- Pure Michigan (Official Travel & Tourism Site)
- Pure Michigan Connect
- The Leelanau News Blog
- THE OJIBWE PAGE
- Time & date. com ~ The World Clock (Sunrise and sunset in Detroit)
- TIMELINE of MICHIGAN HISTORY
- Wickwood Inn Bed & Breakfast (Saugatuck)
- Willow Vineyards
PHOTOGRAPHY HAUNTS
- "Macro Art in Nature" (Michael Brown)
- 365 Photo Project (Rick)
- Antelope reflections (Chad)
- Art Wolfe
- BFK Photography (Bernie Kasper)
- Count Your Chicken! We're Taking Over!
- David Perry Photographer
- Digital Photography School
- Finding Another View (Scott)
- Flower, Nature & Macro Photography: A matter of how you see it (Kala)
- George Lepp Imaging
- iMac's Photos from the Minds Eye
- Kim Klassen Cafe
- Mark Graf (Nature) Photography
- Mike Moats (Tiny Landscapes)
- Monet Nagler (B/W photography)
- Paper Bird
- Picture Imperfect (Krista)
- Red Willow Photography (Lisa)
- Shadowhouse Creations
- The Ansel Adams Gallery
- The Halsted Gallery
- The Ruins of Detroit (Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre)
- Views From My Camara
- What Karen Sees
- World's Best Photography Blog (Scott Law)
READING & WRITING HAUNTS
- "Keys to Great Writing" (Stephen Wilbers)
- "Pen On Fire"
- Birchbark Books (Louise Erdrich)
- Book Wire
- Elmore Leonard
- Kathy's Publications
- Midwest Book Review (Writer Resources)
- NaNoWriMo
- Poets & Writers
- Readerville (The social life of the mind)
- Springfed Arts (Metro Detroit Writers)
- The Blog of Henry David Thoreau
- Thomas Lynch (Poet & Writer)
- Traverse (Northern Michigan's Magazine)
- Wooden Horse Publishing
- WRITER'S DIGEST
HONORABLE MENTION HAUNTS
- A Drop in the Bucket
- Blogger Play
- Boomer Turn-Ons
- Cabs Creative Corner
- Creative Services (Basil Anthony)
- Daily Painters of PA (Susie Morrell)
- fuel digital (jilly randall)
- Our Mush Push
- Susie Morrell (fine art)
- The Cloud Appreciation Society
- VIDEOJUG (life explained on film ~ US edition)
- You've Got To Be Kidding Me
Shadow House Creations
All photos are copyright the photographer, and may not be used without written permission.
Copyright © 2006-20024 THE VILLAGE VOICE
23 comments:
Rex begonias are beautiful, and you showcase them so well, Joey! Mine are staying in the garage for the winter.
Thanks, Tatyana. These are 2 newbies that look lovely with both my cranberry and pink poinsettias. I hope they last till spring!
Joey, I like how you made that first photo look like an oil painting.
I grew some rex begonias summer before last.....not very successfully.
donna
Dearest Joey, There are such a wide variety of Begonias and the ones you show here are very dainty and charming. The coloured foliage is particularly fine.
For years I despised the large flowered hybrids but now I rather like their buxom blowsiness. How tastes change.
I love the texture portrait. And the foliage shots in the collage are beautiful!
As usual, great photos. I hope it makes it to Spring too.
Happy snow today.
Shouldn't 'Rex' be the antithesis of such a delicate specimen?
Anyway, it's a beautiful and dainty flower, no matter what its name.
I hope your Monday is as perfect as this begonia, Joey!
Joey, I have had several Rex Begonias through the years, and I am doing something wrong by them.
Maybe they require more water than I am giving them, leaves brown and die off. Another challenge!
Eileen
Great way to highlight a plant. Did you see Ficurina's post on the Beefsteak Begonia? Carolyn
Thank you, Donna. We shall see how these lovelies do on my sunporch. Hopefully, they will be happy :)
Exactly why i choose these beauties, dearest Edith. The foliage is a perfect compliment to my other holiday plants. I am also fond of buxom blowsiness of tuberous begonias, especially in containers.
Thanks Kanak ~ how kind!
Even though only a dusting, I'm not ready for the blustery winter weather, Lindalou. Plus we are heading UP NORTH to the cottage today where they are expecting more snow. And I worry about my poor daughter on crutches who broke her leg on Thanksgiving :(
You are so clever, dear Marysol :) Thanks for the wish ... I could use a perfect day!
Hum, Eileen. We shall see with these ... should be interesting. It's been some time since I've adopted a begonia as a houseplant.
Thank you, Carolyn. I must visit Ficurina and check out her post.
I absolutely love your begonia collages Joey!
Thanks fun photo friend, Kala. We sure both enjoy life behind the lens :)
Hello Joey, your begonias are very beautiful and that collage magnified their beauty. I love begonias too but it is difficult to maintain in our area, with hot long dry season.
I'm not a begonia fan - but I am a fan of the top picture in this post. It looks as if it has been printed on tissue paper.
Esther
Gorgeous foliage! I'd like to add a houseplant or two this winter, and this begonia looks like the perfect choice.
I hear you, Andrea, and thank you. This was purchased as an indoor plant to compliment other friendly faces. If all goes well, it will then vacation outdoors in spring.
I like that, Esther! I sometimes get bored and enjoy tweaking :)
And that is exactly what this plant is about, Rose ... foliage ... and why I purchased it.
Beautiful collages my friend.
Yippee I'm back in the land of Blggers, my friend.
So missed you, dear imac, and thank you! Your creative dreams, on hold, must have been a nightmare. Welcome back :)
My begonias NEVER look like this! As usual, your editing is fabulous!!!
An honor, dear Karen. Thank you, fun photo friend :)
I've not had good luck with them in the past, but you inspire me to try again!
I think gardeners often overlook these begonias, but as you mentioned, their foliage is what is most remarkable. Far more spectacular than their blooms. Beautiful images again Joey, I love the effect on the first photo!
Linda, I have no clue how these will perform for me inside until spring, only time will tell! All I know is I love the foliage that quiets what might be a gaudy holiday arrangement :)
Thanks, sweet Clare. The foliage is handsome and suits my fancy :) The tiny hidden flower is quietly awesome and why I wanted to focus on what might be overlooked.
Post a Comment