Impatiens
Impatiens: Stunning variety of colors. Have a shady spot in your border. Call on the Impatiens to give you lots of color.
| Impatiens | Annual |
|---|---|
| Bloom Time | Later Spring to Frost |
| Light | Light Shade to Dense Shade |
| Water | Well Drained Soil - Humus Soil |
| Diseases | Mold, Wilt, Leaf Spot |
| Pests | Caterpillars, Mites, Aphids |
| Propagation | Seed |
| Color | Any except Blue |
| Zones | 10 - 11 Annual Elsewhere |
Impatiens - Fiesta Burgundy double
What would we do without impatiens?
If you have a lot of shade in your garden, Impatiens will be one of your choices that you will not want to pass.
They're the old reliable's for shade gardens when you want eye-popping color all season long.
These brightly colored flowers come in single, semi-double, or double and are borne either singly or in clusters on the stems.
They are excellent as bedding plants and I use them as edging plants as well.
If you have planters or containers available, be sure to place various Impatiens in them as well.
If you have a bright spot indoors, you may be able to grow them all year as an indoor plant.
The quickest and easiest way to propagate Annual Impatiens is by seed in the spring.
Select a sunny border are and dig deep, mixing in cow manure to provide rich light soil. I use my Troy Bilt Roto-tiller to fluff-up and aerate the soil, prior to seeding, so the roots will grow quickly and deeply. It is phenomenal what a difference this makes for annual Impatiens.
Impatiens - Fusion Glow
With the many colors and color variations available with Impatiens you can use them as border plants an have great variety within one species.
Use in annual groupings and as edging plants too. They really prefer a light shade and will do best in those conditions.
Spacing: Space 10" - 12" apart when planting
Fertilizer: Use an all-purpose once a month.
Water Requirements: Daily.
Wishbone Flower:
Create a subtle textural contrast by mixing in wishbone flowers with your impatiens plantings
Begonia:
Big, beautiful tuberous begonias are a great accent to impatiens, especially double-flowering impatiens.
Browallia:
Mix blue browallia with pink, white, or lavender impatiens for a steady show of soft color all the way to fall
Sweet Woodruff:
Galium odoratum. Use flowers to make May wine, leaves to flavor drinks. Ht. 8" in partial shade or full sun. Perennial in zones 3-9.
Impatiens - Fanfare Orchid
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Fanfare Orchid impatiens (Impatiens 'Fanfare Orchid') is a trailing impatiens to 20 inches that produces orchid-pink flowers. It has better sun tolerance than most.
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Fiesta Burgundy double impatiens (Impatiens 'Fiesta Burgundy') bears beautiful double burgundy-purple flowers on 16-inch-tall plants.
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Fiesta Ole Peppermint double impatiens (Impatiens 'Fiesta Ole Peppermint') bears beautiful double pink-and-white flowers on compact, 12-inch-tall plants.
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Fiesta Ole Purple Stripe double impatiens (Impatiens 'Fiesta Ole Purple Stripe') bears purple-and-white double flowers all summer long. It grows 16 inches tall and 1 foot wide.
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Fiesta Pink Frost double impatiens (Impatiens 'Fiesta Pink Frost') features variegated foliage and double pink flowers all summer long. It grows 16 inches tall and 1 foot wide
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(Impatiens 'Fiesta Purple') bears beautiful double purple-pink flowers on 16-inch-tall plants.
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Fiesta Salsa Red double impatiens (Impatiens 'Fiesta Salsa Red') bears double rose-like flowers on 16-inch-tall plants.
Impatiens - Fiesta White double
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Fiesta Stardust Pink double impatiens (Impatiens 'Fiesta Stardust Pink') bears double pink flowers stippled with white. It grows 16 inches tall.
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Fiesta White double impatiens (Impatiens 'Fiesta White') shows off double pure white flowers. It grows 16 inches tall.
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Fusion Glow impatiens (Impatiens 'Fusion Glow') bears golden-yellow flowers with an orange throat. It grows 16 inches tall.
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Fusion Heat Coral impatiens (Impatiens 'Fusion Heat Coral') bears coral-orange flowers with a yellow throat. It grows 16 inches
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Fusion Infrared Apricot impatiens (Impatiens 'Fusion Infrared Apricot') bears apricot-pink flowers with a yellow-orange throat. It grows 16 inches tall.
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Fusion Sunset Peach impatiens (Impatiens 'Fusion Sunset Peach') bears warm apricot-peach flowers. It grows 16 inches tall.
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Pixie Pink Bicolor mini-impatiens (Impatiens 'Pixie Pink Bicolor') bears many small creamy-pink flowers splashed with darker pink on 12-inch-tall plants.
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Super Elfin White impatiens (Impatiens 'Super Elfin White') bears pure white flowers on compact 10-inch-tall plants.
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Swirl Coral impatiens (Impatiens 'Swirl Coral') bears soft salmon-pink blooms with darker coral-pink edges on 12-inch-tall plants.
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Swirl Pink impatiens (Impatiens 'Swirl Pink') bears soft pink blooms with deeper pink edges on 12-inch-tall plants.
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Tempo impatiens (Impatiens 'Tempo Series') bears flowers in a very wide range of shades on compact 8-inch-tall plants.
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Xtreme Rose impatiens (Impatiens 'Xtreme Rose') bears large, bright rosy-pink flowers on 12-inch-tall plants.
