The last tour of the American Begonia Society Convention was a visit to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Begonia Species Bank and Collection. They hold the largest collection of begonias in North America, including hundreds of species and rare cultivated varieties. In 2015, the FWBG became the first botanic garden in Texas to receive accreditation for its Begonia collection through the Plant Collections Network and currently has the only accredited Begonia collection in the nation.
This part of the garden is not open to the public and they have strict protocols in place to protect the collection.
Begonias grow in the wild throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and often face loss of habitat from deforestation, logging, mining, and agriculture. The FWBG Begonia Species Bank serves as insurance against their extinction. Additions are constantly being made to the collection through propagation and the acquisition of new species.
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| A few statistics on begonias! |
There are many begonias in the collection and here are a few that caught my eye!
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| B. Martha Stewart |
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| It's always great to see these two in a Botanic Garden! |
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