Begonias are beautiful plants that thrive in sunny summer gardens. Whether you’re after a large-blooming variety or a trailing option for hanging baskets, we’ve got everything you need to add sensational colour to the garden.
With the summer planting season almost upon us, it’s currently the best ᴛι̇ɱe of year to start planning your displays. Here are just a few of our favourite begonia plants for the new season, including tried and true varieties and brand-new picks!
Our Top Picks for Summer
Begonia Semperflorens Devil Mix
This wonderful mix of Begonia will produce a mixture of colours. They are perfect for growing as bedding and work extremely well in pots and containers on the patio, creating an overall combination of colour. Begonias are essential summer bedding plants, not ɱaпy plants are more reliable or flower non-stop until the first frosts like these will!
Begonia Non-Stop Mixed
Non-stop Begonias are a superb addition to any garden, producing compact and vigorous plants and bright flowers that can grow up to 7cm across. This amazing mixture will delight during the summer months; its vibrant blooms sitting happily against a background of crisp green foliage. Perfect for growing in patio pots, as bedding, in window boxes or at the front of a border.
Begonia Firewings Tricolour Collection
The ever-exciting Begonia Firewings Tricolour Collection provides a superb Bolivian begonia variety that one of the most vigorous and top performing of all trailing begonias on the market. Producing bright flowers with dark-green foliage from June to October. Highly suitable for growing in containers, especially since their pendulous blooms will trail happily, reaching lengths of 40-50cm.
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Begonia Apricot Shades
Begonia Apricot Shades produces double and single blooms in shades of apricot, amber and lemon, each of which will pour elegantly from containers this summer. This plant produces enormous cascading flowers that reach up to 15cm/6in across, ideal for growing in hanging baskets and containers. This colour selection almost seems to light up when the sun shines, brightening up the shadiest of areas! A must-have choice for any gardener.
Begonia Double Collection
Double-flowering begonias are extremely popular right now. Their large double-ruffled flower heads and compact size make them an easy choice, especially for those with little space in the garden. Can easily be grown in a container for a striking summer display! Our Begonia Double Collection provides a selection of gorgeous plants from this range.
Begonia Double White
After something that’ll pair happily with your existing flower display? The Begonia Double White is a striking elegant white shade, perfect for growing as a companion to more striking colours. Its double-ruffled petals and large size make for a striking summer plant!
What to Plant with Begonias
Busy lizzies & Impatiens
Busy lizzies and Impatiens are a superb companion for your begonias, regardless of whether they’re in containers, hanging baskets, or flower beds. Their versatile nature and an abundance of colour mean your begonias are in good company!
Coleus
If you’re in need of more foliage than flowers, coleus are a great shout. Their striking colours on simple foliage shapes makes for a striking display, and a perfect companion to your favourite begonia bloom.
Geraniums
Also known as pelargoniums, geraniums are a classic garden flower in the UK. Their bright colours and occasional trailing habit (depending on the variety!) will give a begonia a happy friend in the garden.
Fuchsias
Everyone knows how quintessential fuchsias are to a hanging basket. Although ɱaпy produces smaller flowers than the average begonia, the juxtaposition in size will give the begonia a good frontɱaп to provide extra colour, Plus, fuchsias are incredibly easy to grow and will attract pollinators in their droves.
How to Grow Begonias
Want to know more about growing and caring for your new begonia plants? We’ve written a whole begonia planting guide to help you do exactly that! Take a look and keep it to hand for when your plants arrive.