{"id":131,"date":"2010-01-04T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/01\/04\/big-begonias\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T11:59:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T16:59:46","slug":"big-begonias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/01\/04\/big-begonias\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Begonias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S3CWza-oClI\/AAAAAAAAAHY\/rj8dM-S5JnA\/s1600-h\/DSC_0826.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436010560395676242\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S3CWza-oClI\/AAAAAAAAAHY\/rj8dM-S5JnA\/s320\/DSC_0826.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>The Benary &#8216;Big Begonia&#8217; series are a hit, &#8220;begonias on steroids&#8221;, some gardeners may say. Individual flowers are twice that of other bedding begonias. Colors are vivid with three cultivars currently available . &#8216;Big Rose Bronze Leaf&#8217; is my personal favorite. (pictured)<\/div>\n<div>Begonias grow best in well drained, humus-rich garden soil. Provide tender -loving care for the first 4 weeks in the spring, and plants will bloom non-stop through a long hot, dry summers into the first hard frost autumn. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Plant the Big begonias in full sun or partial sun (a minimum of 5 hours of sun recommended). Disease and insect pests are rarely an issue for these tough, non-stop flowering annuals. Do not plant begonias in the same garden spot more than 3 consecutive years to avoid buildup of soil pathogens.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benary &#8216;Big Begonia&#8217; series are a hit, &#8220;begonias on steroids&#8221;, some gardeners may say. Individual flowers are twice that of other bedding begonias. Colors are vivid with three cultivars currently available . &#8216;Big Rose Bronze Leaf&#8217; is my personal favorite. (pictured) Begonias grow best in well drained, humus-rich garden soil. Provide tender -loving care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[985,674,806,602,630,705,706,646,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}