Up close, it's just so many red and yellow wax begonias.

Wax begonia foliage is succulent and does not wilt easily.

Wax begonias (shiny leaves, small flowers in white, pink or red) like filtered light.

Instead, I plant wax begonias annually for bits of color in perennial borders or window boxes.

Wax begonias also bloom unstintingly and are forgiving of neglect.

Oh, yes, and wax begonia flowers are edible.

Justin shook his head as he looked at the yellow-brown leaves of a withered wax begonia.

Familiarity breeds contempt, which may be why old-fashioned wax begonias are so seldom used in modern gardens.

Wax begonias can also be grown indoors.

The most reliable low-cost bloomers for shade are wax begonias and common impatiens.

The wax begonias had been drowned, all right; on close in- spection the thick leaves were almost mushy.

This isn't your grandmother's wax begonia.

My rule of thumb for watering wax begonias in the garden is not to do it unless I notice the foliage starting to bleach out.

But, back then, cannas were in the same category as marigolds, bright red bedding geraniums and wax begonias.

Wax begonias are unstinting in their bloom and make a bright splash of color, even if the individual blossoms are not particularly spectacular.

The old-fashioned bedding begonias, or as they were once known, wax begonias, were not too much to get excited about.

The leaves do not exceed six inches, and the flowers are no larger than those of the common wax begonia used so often as a bedding plant.

The fibrous-rooted begonias are often called wax begonias because their leaves are so shiny and the flowers continue all summer.

These days, I prefer single plantings - a series of pots each holding just browallias, wax begonias, evolvulus or dianthus.

It seems that the pattern is always tulips in the spring, and in the summer it's always wax begonias, which I happen to detest.

Begonias of the semperflorens group (or wax begonias) are frequently grown as bedding plants outdoors.

But what belongs in the annual flower bed is a fibrous-rooted begonia, commonly known as a wax begonia or wax plant.

Mr. Bleam sipped his cabernet, gracefully ignoring the white wax begonias that someone had apparently just planted at the base of the stone wall.

Cuttings from wax begonias, impatiens, coleus, marigolds, geraniums and salvias are some annuals that clone easily this way.

Wax begonias and violet plants were arranged about a small berm covered with staghorn feros and dwarf varieties of evergreen.