Our hillside Begonia garden—the trick is in the height

If you have a garden on a hillside, stripe it with Begonias—the trick isn’t in the colors but in the height. Here’s the two-step formula we used here:

• Top row = tall begonias from the Dragon Wing series
• Bottom row = small begonias from the BabyWing series

This trick works because the Dragon Wings make the top of the hill even higher, and the BabyWings make the bottom even lower. It exaggerates the garden’s slope so the presentation is more dramatic. Choose your colors, and you are done.

In this garden, we underlined the very bottom of the hill with Ipomoea SolarPower, a dark and tightly growing sweet potato vine that stays bushy and doesn’t crawl very much.