Pass up perennials for annuals which are cheaper and give you a faster and longer show of blooms. Perennials are lovely in containers but they have to spend far more energy making sure they live to see another year so they tend not to bloom for nearly as long as annuals.
Bright pink blooms and shiny dark green leaves of a dragooning begonia.
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Celebrating gardens, photography and a creative life
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ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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a chat over the garden fence
There's always room for one more plant.
a little garden near Gawler
.....and nurturing my soul
Ministry of the fence 
