Impatiens flowers.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHXLOtDtbQgAE8MILSJaldF3_pnBB6j4Dsno7GQeWhm4l2K6gtZxYvpJn6K5UcuOgygusrLRiFd22zk_foiYAdn7YElE-8BTfKVldxfASQeD8vB3jlb0Jlfi4MwaYhKMK0tJUJd0I5XB7/s1600/Impatiens+flowers..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHXLOtDtbQgAE8MILSJaldF3_pnBB6j4Dsno7GQeWhm4l2K6gtZxYvpJn6K5UcuOgygusrLRiFd22zk_foiYAdn7YElE-8BTfKVldxfASQeD8vB3jlb0Jlfi4MwaYhKMK0tJUJd0I5XB7/s320/Impatiens+flowers..jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPxWSzJHqjB36qE9no_EXO4NDeu3CpmQr1GlmX0Ma7TN0V-L7xGTIyn60Xm4ECXtSo-tX5KDud8bD_WaqJAqrDhicqJVLHwQqJCQGaOIJKuxSGuaw_VGwGt-ny8b9dnj5Qo7Kntn-Q4TFt/s1600/Impatiens+flowers.+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPxWSzJHqjB36qE9no_EXO4NDeu3CpmQr1GlmX0Ma7TN0V-L7xGTIyn60Xm4ECXtSo-tX5KDud8bD_WaqJAqrDhicqJVLHwQqJCQGaOIJKuxSGuaw_VGwGt-ny8b9dnj5Qo7Kntn-Q4TFt/s320/Impatiens+flowers.+(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBPTkUqpqoeylwDD371BzVtgJM0W-OV6BJVVif33YhQoyMpk5UaA-RARr9Roc-XXC8cBoNhytEjX8ilAIT36NOBVKhLhUFjrJ4d5MqQJk9W6-uCL9yWFX4U-dxxgVASYufW2LxGr4Jw1A/s1600/Impatiens+flowers.+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBPTkUqpqoeylwDD371BzVtgJM0W-OV6BJVVif33YhQoyMpk5UaA-RARr9Roc-XXC8cBoNhytEjX8ilAIT36NOBVKhLhUFjrJ4d5MqQJk9W6-uCL9yWFX4U-dxxgVASYufW2LxGr4Jw1A/s320/Impatiens+flowers.+(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgklDwyL2dALp45SUO5o_ga-wUYJBY_Kq7eV5fet41dCNDN89AMEvRyOdLDG545eEjKQdfaCz2uDPisjMafC2HVq9AoL_i_C49hw1U1obsFPuXCj-cxJhXaSbwapZqrtawI3833ShWxokJ5/s1600/Impatiens+flowers.+(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgklDwyL2dALp45SUO5o_ga-wUYJBY_Kq7eV5fet41dCNDN89AMEvRyOdLDG545eEjKQdfaCz2uDPisjMafC2HVq9AoL_i_C49hw1U1obsFPuXCj-cxJhXaSbwapZqrtawI3833ShWxokJ5/s320/Impatiens+flowers.+(3).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbBL72VOSX4pwGyZhPcvCwF5wzwYdHezww8-PIkR-7_zfKuI-9FIjt2bHXOGc3CVDs5Azx5bP_yaFmkRnU0bZNcLKyuIEdoe8y0AGslbnRfSGwksRoUKB0-BtBmzoeEe_TGgqtvWKHHdz/s1600/Impatiens+flowers.+(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbBL72VOSX4pwGyZhPcvCwF5wzwYdHezww8-PIkR-7_zfKuI-9FIjt2bHXOGc3CVDs5Azx5bP_yaFmkRnU0bZNcLKyuIEdoe8y0AGslbnRfSGwksRoUKB0-BtBmzoeEe_TGgqtvWKHHdz/s320/Impatiens+flowers.+(4).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The wide range of flower colors includes red, orange, salmon, rose, pink, white, violet, and lavender blue. New Guinea Impatiens also offer exciting variations in leaf color.</span> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Impatiens are used for edging shady beds, massing under trees, window boxes and hanging baskets.</span></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impatiens thrive in filtered or partial shade and must have protection from hot afternoon sun to maintain their colors. The soft, fleshy stems wilt quickly when in need of water. Plants grown in the soil under trees will need extra water and fertilizer since they are competing with the tree roots.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All types do best in a rich, moist soil mulched to maintain adequate moisture. Feed monthly with a water-soluble fertilizer</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impatiens are an easy-care annual that develop a beautiful shape without pinching or pruning and do not require flower removal to be covered with fresh blooms.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impatiens seed should be started indoors six to 10 weeks prior to planting outside. After the last chance of frost, harden off your impatiens, and then set the plants in the garden. A quicker way to get impatiens is to purchase transplants from a local nursery or garden center. Space tall-growing varieties 18 inches apart and compact varieties 8 to 10 inches apart. The closer they are planted, the taller and leggier the plants grow.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impatiens may be grown in containers. Use a soil-less growing mix for good drainage. Impatiens grown in containers need more frequent watering and possibly more fertilizing than those grown in the garden.</span></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Problems</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generally impatiens are trouble-free in the home landscape. Diseases can include damping-off during germination, fungal blights and rots, and viruses. Spider mites, thrips, mealybugs and aphids may infest New Guinea impatiens.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cultural control methods can easily prevent most problems from developing. Grow plants under optimum conditions to keep them healthy.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impatiens are highly susceptible to moisture stress. If the plants are allowed to wilt, they will drop leaves and flowers. Keep them well-watered, but not soggy, at all times.</span></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Species & Cultivars</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Impatiens:</b> Impatiens - also known as Sultana, Touch-me-not, and Busy Lizzie (<i>Impatiens wallerana</i>) - is the best known species, with its mounding habit, long bloom and incredible range of colors. The common name Touch-me-not was given because the slightest touch will cause the ripe, full seedpods to burst open scatter their seeds into the wind. Impatiens often reseed in the garden, but the seedlings will gradually return to producing tall plants with a mix of colors unlike those originally planted.mpatiens range from 8 inches to 2 feet tall. Many cultivars will be taller than descriptions in catalogs in hot southern summers. Heat-tolerant cultivars will remain more compact. Flowers are from 1 to 2 inches across. Taller plants produce larger flowers. Flowers can be single, semi-double, or fully double blooms that look like miniature roses. In addition to the many brilliant solid colours, impatiens are available with markings in star, picotee and mosaic patterns.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impatiens cultivars are usually sold as part of a series with similar growth characteristics and a wide range of color.</span></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 3.2em; margin-right: 3.2em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Accent' series are dwarf, large-flowering and have outstanding summer-long flowering in shade.</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Blitz' series has very large 2½ inch blooms on uniform compact plants. They are drought-and heat-tolerant.</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Carousel' has the largest percentage of double blooms of any double impatiens. The compact, well-branched plants flower freely.</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Dazzler' series grows 8 to 10 inches tall and is best in shade. Compact plants have large blooms and enormous flower production. Ideal for containers.</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Impact' series are extra early with a dwarf compact plant habit. Being extremely heat-resistant, they will flower almost continuously through the entire season.</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Impulse' is a compact series that does well in heat. They grow to 12 inches tall.</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Super Elfins' grow 8 to 10 inches tall and are a very popular series. They are known for abundant bloom and compact habit even in heat.</span></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>New Guineas:</b> New Guinea Impatiens (<i>Impatiens hawkeri</i>) have leaves that are large and brightly colored bronze or purple with yellow or pink midribs. They have larger showy flowers in various colors and are usually grown from cuttings.<span style="line-height: 18px;">New Guineas are often promoted for growing in full sun. Unfortunately, they need so much water to do well in full sun that few gardeners can keep up. New Guineas grow best where they will receive morning sun and afternoon shade. An eastern exposure is ideal. Gardeners who can water the plants </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">very</i><span style="line-height: 18px;"> frequently may want to try them in full sun.</span></span></div></div>

Impatiens flowers.

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