I’m often asked if it’s safe to start growing common impatiens in our gardens again. What was once North America’s number one selling bedding plant and often touted as Mother Nature’s most perfect ...

When I think of color for shaded areas in the landscape, my thoughts immediately go to impatiens. Impatiens have been the go-to annual bedding plant for decades to provide bright, beautiful flowers in ...

Gardeners celebrate! The beloved Impatiens flower is back and it’s bolder, brighter and in no danger from being wiped out by downy mildew again. Yvonne Cunningham takes the new species for a test ...

Aside from their beauty and shade tolerance, there’s one key reason to go with Beacon Impatiens: disease resistance. In recent years, Impatiens walleriana flowers suffered from a major outbreak of ...

Your description indicates that you have had downy mildew on your impatiens. Downy mildew of impatiens has been observed in the United States since about 1994 but became more widespread and ...

When Impatiens walleriana Beacon arrived on the garden scene as the first bedding impatiens to beat downy mildew, it felt as if we were getting back to normal. This bestie for shade once again ...

This time next year, a new generation of impatiens will once again take its rightful place in shade gardens all around the world. With the announcement last year of the breakthrough sequencing and ...

Impatiens used to be our favorite and best-selling annual flower. They bloomed like crazy, flowered reliably even in deep shade, and were cheap, too. Then a disease swooped in midway through the 2012 ...

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With the proper care, impatiens can bloom continuously until the first frost. The right light, watering, and feeding schedule is key to extending blooming. Cutting back end-of-season leggy growth can ...