Plant Details:
Scientific Name: Begonia interspecific
Common Name: Interspecific Begonia
Blooming Season: Early Spring, Spring, Late Spring, Summer, Autumn, Late Summer
Plant Habit: Spreading
Characteristics: Drought Tolerant, Water/Rain tolerant, Heat Tolerant, Shade Tolerant, Low Maintenance
Fertilize: Every two weeks
Spacing: 12 - 20" (30 - 51cm)
Height: 6 - 10" (15 - 25cm)
Width: 20 - 27" (51 - 69cm)
Exposure: Shade, Sun
General Information: Nice spreading, trailing habit for use in ground beds and baskets. Fills in fast with lots of color.
Grower Information:
Unique begonias to complete your program!
Hula Spreading Begonia is fast to fill in landscape beds, creating a blanket of high-impact colour! Hula looks amazing in hanging baskets and mixed containers, providing an opportunity to offer a more premium product.
Plug crop time: 6 to 8 weeks
Transplant to finish: 5 to 7 weeks for Spring timing
- Hula is a unique spreading type of begonia that is highly branched and covered with flowers.
- Its trailing habit is perfect for baskets and containers.
- Provides an instant performance advantage for landscapers, with masses of flowers showing on top.
- The series is daylength neutral and it is the earliest interspecific begonia to flower, with timing similar to BabyWing®.
- The high number of flowers provides great colour impact.
- Hula starts to spread at an early stage and, along with early flowering, it provides growers with a high-quality, attractive, salable plant that is covered with blooms at retail, in both hanging baskets and smaller pot sizes.
Mix of red and white blooms. The white variety has bigger flowers and is whiter than the current blush variety. White is not available separately.