Hometown hero Begonia, a.k.a. Alexa Dirks, is one of the country's best-kept secrets, but hopefully not for long! With two studio albums to her name, the singer-songwriter has been making the ...

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The word begonia transports many of us back to the 1970s and 80s. Memories of angel-wing polka-dot leaves on windowsills come to mind, as do visions of multi-petalled summer bedding planted en masse.