The Specialist Team of three gardeners Cindy, Rachel, and Tobias are constantly evolving the collection of plants on display in the Begonia House. They consider different ways to arrange plants in interesting and creative dsiplays around our more permanent plants and very rare and special species. Approximately 600 plants are used over 15 displays.
To keep things interesting for our visitors, there are two times a year where the displays get switched out – summer and winter. The reason behind this is so that plants can be propagated and grown from existing stock to prepare for the right season. For the summer period, propagation begins in March. For the winter period, like we are heading into now, the plants were propagated back in August last year.
It’s all about the long-term gain –some of the filler plants taking six to eight months to grow while the larger plants can take eight to twelve months!