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Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Flower
Wax Begonia
Begonia semperflorens
Neat, glossy annual for sun or shade. Bronze-leaf types handle more sun.
Recommended uses
- Shade beds
- Edging
- Containers
- Plant type
- Annual flower
- Annual / perennial
- Annual
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Evergreen
- Sun
- Full sun to shade
- Shade tolerance
- High
- Water needs
- Medium
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer, Fall
- Bloom color
- Pink, Red, White
- Mature height
- 8–12 in
- Mature width
- 8–12 in
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- Medium
- Drought tolerance
- Medium