Question
Are you supposed to pull up begonias in the winter? We bought
a new house and have extensive begonia beds? I live in the
Texas.
Answer
Without knowing what plants you have, all I can offer is vague
advice; yes keep them watered, but just. Being soggy this
time of year is a death sentence for most plants. Any of the
plants that have maintained green foliage will need some light;
a window or somewhere close to one will do.
You may or may not get these plants back the following year;
tropicals like New Guinea impatiens are not going
to survive that treatment and annuals like regular
impatiens don't come back period, so check the tags and let
us know.
The begonias I suspect you have are B. grandis (syn. B. evansii
or B. grandis var.evansii), or hardy begonias, and while you're
at the northern side of their range, you still should get
them back most every year.
That said, I was sitting at a lunch with a nursery owner
from your neck of the woods at a trade show, and I empathised
about the horrble ice storm and cold temperatures they were
having, and was suprised when he beamed back, "Hell this
is great! Means they all gotta replace their annuals now!"
Which is my gentle way of telling you, in some harder years
you're going to have to do some begonia replacement and every
so often Mother Nature will require you to re-plant the whole
lot. But for the moment, don't do a thing...
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