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Grumble! The two big urns flanking my front door were just starting to look the way I'd imagined them when IÂ planted them. The sweet potato vine was trailing and curling just so, the coleus and spikes were tall and stately, and the mocha-leaved begonias were blooming brightly.
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But their zenith was short-lived. Last week the begonia in one pot started to look shriveled and sickly. I don't know if it was the withering heat wave a couple weeks back -- or all the water I dumped on my pots trying to compensate. Either way, the begonia up and died over the weekend, leaving a big, blank hole in my showcase container.
What to do? Normally, I'm too cheap to invest in any new annuals this late in the growing season. But this is such a prominent spot that I know it's going to bug me to look at that blank, blah hole every day, especially when the begonia in the pot next to it is still blooming.
I perused a couple of garden centers over the weekend to see if IÂ could pick up a mocha-leaved begonia with pink flowers, to match the one I had, but the pickings were slim indeed. And rightly so. It's mid-August, after all.
Do you fill plant holes this late in the summer? Have you come across any mocha-leaved begonias still languishing on garden-center shelves? What would YOUÂ plant in this empty space?
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