How Design Impatients In The Garden

Here are a few ways to use them.

How design impatients in the garden. Impatiens are a popular garden flower often seen as edging or used for splashes of color in window boxes. They are beautiful annuals that grow easily and are great for summer plantings every year. Although techinically tropical perennials these plants are grown as annuals in all but the warmest regions zones 10 to 12.

With their quick growth habit and abundant bloom production impatiens are great choices for your garden. Some varieties also offer double flowers that look almost like mini roses. Set impatiens in the garden in spring when all danger of frost has passed.

Begonias and impatiens prefer the cool moist environment beneath the dappled canopy of trees and perennials and do not tolerate hot dry winds. Impatiens when to plant impatiens. Arrange the next groups of plantings according to size color shape and texture for maximum effect.

In the end designing your landscape with impatiens is very much what works best for you. Impatiens flowers take their name from the latin impatiens meaning impatient. Both types also prefer morning sunshine and.

Best planted in groups of a dozen or more. The impatiens genus one of two genera in the balsam family of plants has many dozens of species two of which are common garden plants. From its garden impatiens parents it inherits the higher flower density shade tolerance and spreading habit typical of garden impatiens.

That means that each plant will tolerate more shade and cover a much wider area than will the more upright new guinea impatiens. Space impatiens 6 to 12 inches apart. Most commonly impatiens come in softer pastel shades but some species come in warm colors like yellow coral and orange as well.