The South has a love affair with flowering plants, but they must be able to take the heat.
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Impatiens Are Easy to Grow
Impatiens care is easy for the entry-level gardener.
Just drop by your local nursery and pick up a half dozen to plant in your bed or container.
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The soil temperature will have to remain a pretty consistent 75 degrees or else the seed could rot.
In frost-free areas, they will bloom year-round.
As long as they are watered, impatiens just don’t quit.
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you’re able to start by combining three to five in a large container set 6 inches apart.
They start small but can grow quite bushy by the end of summer.
balsaminais another species that differs in appearance from flat-flowered impatiens.
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They are characterized by erect branches with cup-shaped flowers that are sometimes spotted.
Blooms will appear either solitarily or in tidy clusters of two to three.
you might also find double-pet
Impatiens Come In Just About Every Color
Can’t quite decide?
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Why not try them all.
According to Bender, impatiens come in just about every color variety but blue is uncommon.
Pink, white, red, orange, and purplethere’s an impatiens hue to match every landscape.
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Impatiens Don’t Need Deadheading
No need toclip off faded bloomsthese flowering plants are self-groomers.
The only reason you’ll need to prune at all would be to reduce legginess.
Otherwise they’re good to grow all on their own with minimal intervention.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Impatiens are grown as annuals in most climates as they don’t tolerate frost.
Though they won’t come back each year, impatiens can live and bloom year-round in frost-free gardens.
Aphids and spider mites may feed on impatiens foliage, stippling leaves or causing them to curl.
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