#Rex begonia

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Rex begonia leaves

[thebotanicalarcade]

Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique, 1859

[deadhead-greenpinky]

Couldn’t say no to this begonia, she had to come home with me. I think this reignited my love for houseplants.

[floraaurora420]

My begonia babies doing their best ✨

[velveteengreen]

Rex Begonia 'Fairy'

Managed to get this babe to bloom! Absolutely gorgeous silver and pink on the leaves

[ryanscabinlife]

Oh hey! Didn’t notice this lil baby is blooming! I mean, it’s nothing to write home about but the fact that I got this rex begonia as a single leaf propagation last winter is so incredible to me. Plants are so fascinating 😭 you’re doing great sweety!

2-Oct-2022

[percyjacksonwriter]

For years I thought your icon was a bantha from Star Wars and this is the first time I’ve clicked on it to see the full picture to realize it’s not

Nope, just a close up picture of a leaf, a Rex begonia leaf to be exact.

[jagalart]

Escargot Patron reward for the amazing SilverGhost, thank you as always <3

[dramasetter]

La pianta più cazzuta che abbia mai avuto.

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Pretty leaves!

[thebotanicalarcade]

n208_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe A Gand :chez Louis van Houtte, eÌditeur,1845-1880. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27803795

[softpine]

I recently went to a Farmers market and got some cute art prints! What are your sims getting/looking forward to at the Farmers Market??

i just went to the farmers market this weekend actually!! i think beth and asa would go specifically for the fruits & vegetables because they like to cook, but cara would tag along just to eat at the food trucks. idk if most farmers markets have this or just mine, but there's always this lady who sells a million houseplants (i'm a regular lol) and stevie would be buying at least one every time she goes. elaine and jada would mostly just want to get a little coffee and walk around looking at the crafts and stuff :3

and actually mikaela (and casper or danny if either of them are in town) could be selling some vegetables of their own, but they tend to stick to roadside stands because they don't really need the extra money so it's a lot of work for minimal profit. but sometimes mikaela will do it just for fun

[floraaurora420]

The gonie babes. Obsessed.

[mandsleanan]

Remember how the pandemic social distancing made everyone go a little nuts?

Animal shelters were emptied, horses fresh off the track were being snatched up sight unseen for thousands of dollars, and state and national parks' traffic has surged to the point that it's harming them.

And then you have the Houseplant Hobby.

The demand for houseplants was already on the rise before COVID-19, and it shot up another 18% during the pandemic. And vendors responded by increasing prices 15%, with plans to continue to do so for at least 2021.

You see this vine? Pretty, isn't it?

Rex begonia vines (Cissus discolor) were always kind of an intermediate-level (Glasshouse Works considers them difficult) houseplant, which is what they are half the year if you live north of Zone 9. None of this has changed, except now more people want them and are willing to pay more.

When I bought my pair of vines back in 2016, they were maybe...eight bucks apiece for a 3" pot? Seven years later, they seem to average about twice that for a plant of the same size, and the 2" is eight bucks. Remember what I said about the price inflation?

While browsing live plants at a reptile expo, (Same one where we picked up Mulberry) one of the vendors had a single cutting on display for....$15. Not a starter. Not a rooted cutting. A string of vine fresh off the plant, for 15 USD.

If that seems like bullshit, it is. Look at Mulberry's stupid face to cleanse your brain:

For clarity, I don't recommend paying for the majority of cuttings, at least not beyond shipping expenses. There's always the chance they'll just fail, especially when you tack on the stress of transport. Buying cuttings is popular on Etsy, where vendors will charge you starter plant prices for each one, in addition to shipping and sometimes handling charges.

Anyway, I was so pissed off at the blatant price-gouging that instead of putting the overwinter clippings in the compost, I'm going to try to propagate them all.

I've never tried to propagate this species. We'll see how they do.

[sunshineram]

it looks so polite. such a sweet little smile :)

[vestiges-of-light]

I've killed three houseplants since October, my fourth is shaky, and I'm starting to feel like the antagonist in that "it sounds like you're feeding shelter cats to coyotes" post