{"id":3213,"date":"2019-11-07T00:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T08:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-847\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:41:35","slug":"overwintering-tuberous-begonias","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/overwintering-tuberous-begonias\/","title":{"rendered":"overwintering tuberous begonias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Will Nonstop Begonias overwinter here in Seattle and do well in subsequent years? Mine are in a north-facing shaded area with good soil drainage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Sunset Western Garden Book<\/em> (2007), it is possible but not always easy to overwinter tuberous begonias such as the &#8216;Nonstop&#8217; series. Most people use pots and bring them into a cool, dry, dark environment (such as a garage) for the winter. Others put tubers in the ground but dig some in fall to overwinter in a cool shoebox full of sand. Sometimes they can survive our Seattle winters in the ground, but that is not a sure thing. For example, neighbors of mine lost their last winter despite a blanket of mulch they hoped would protect them. Freezing weather kills them, and the damp soil doesn&#8217;t do them any good either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Nonstop Begonias overwinter here in Seattle and do well in subsequent years? Mine are in a north-facing shaded area with good soil drainage. &nbsp; According to the Sunset Western Garden Book (2007), it is possible but not always easy to overwinter tuberous begonias such as the &#8216;Nonstop&#8217; series. Most people use pots and bring them into a cool, dry, dark environment (such as a garage) for the winter. Others put tubers in the ground but dig some in fall&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/overwintering-tuberous-begonias\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">overwintering tuberous begonias<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[936,68],"class_list":["post-3213","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-begonia","keyword-cold-protection-of-plants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/3213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}