From spring until autumn, semperflorens begonia, which is also known as fibrous, bedding or wax, begonia, is a warm season annual. They actually start to deteriorate as the weather gets cool this time of year. However, they do not necessarily need to be pulled out as their season ends. In sheltered locations or with protection from frost, they actually survive through winter as perennials. They are so easy to propagate by cuttings or division of overgrown plants that tired older plants can replace themselves with their own babies before they get too ugly.
The small flowers of semperflorens begonia can be white, red, or various shades of pink in between. Foliage is more often green or bronze, but can be reddish or variegated. The largest plants get only a foot tall. Denser dwarf types are half as tall. Semperflorens begonia likes rich soil and regular watering (when it is not raining). They prefer partial shade, but will take full sun if mixed with other plants that keep things cool and humid.
Tony Tomeo 
Love these begonias.
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I wrote about it for the gardening column, which is a polite way of saying that I am sometimes compelled to write about species or cultivars that I am not so keen on. I happen to be fond of the sort with simple green foliage and white flowers, and I also like the green foliage with pinkish red flowers, . . . and do not mind the green foliage with pink flowers. However, those with lightly bronzed foliage annoy me somewhat. Those with chocolatey bronzed foliage annoy me more. Chocolate foliage with pinkish red flowers looks like someone ate chocolate covered cherries and threw up. I would not say that for the gardening column, though.
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Ha! I used to like those bronzed-leaved begonias but now prefer the cleaner look of the green.
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Most of us prefer the bronzed sorts, with the green sorts merely to show off the bronzed sorts better.
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