Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. oopoontongoo / Getty Images Begonias are beautiful tropical plants perfect for growing in shade gardens or under a shady porch.

With over 1,800 species and hybrids, begonias are a staple plant in homes and gardens across the country. From the cane begonias with their delicate drooping blooms to the bold rex begonias with their ...

Keep these beauties cool, and they will show off their blooms all summer long.

Jill Maybry demonstrates how to propagate various types of begonias. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Memphis Botanic Garden Horticulturalist Jill Maybry demonstrates the ...

Of all the easiest plants to propagate from cuttings and grow for free, begonias shine because of their amazing variety of 2,000 species and multiple forms of propagation through cuttings. Best of all ...

I have had a wonderful time over the years propagating plants of various kinds. It gives me so much pleasure to take a leaf, a seed or a branch and watch it grow into a replica of the original plant.

Perusing plants in a nursery is a lot like dating. Some you cotton to, others just can't catch your eye. Begonias and I were always a mismatch. Couldn't, for the life of me, understand what others saw ...