New Guinea impatiens: Exotic but easy, I found out last year, when I caved in to my horticultural lust for this hybrid. The variegated leaves of dark green and creamy yellow and magenta are almost ...

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 ...

* What it is: Impatiens used to be America's No. 1-selling type of summer shade flower until a deadly powdery mildew disease hit in 2012.The disease sticks around in the soil and kills most kinds ...

Impatiens are cheerful, mounded annuals that provide precious and steady floral display in shadier corners of the patio and border and look great in containers. But they are so good, folks with ...

We also grow the brightly colored New Guinea impatiens (I. x hawkeri), but they are best with 70-85-degree days and 55-65-degree nights.Native to the island north of Australia, these hybrids have ...

Knowing how to deadhead impatiens as the flowers fade is your ticket to non-stop blooms all summer long. They're one of the best container plants for shade, so don't be afraid of popping them in a ...

Sakata Seed did the same thing with SunPatiens, taking a plant adapted to the shade and breeding and selecting a sun-loving version of it. SunPatiens are hybrid impatiens that more closely ...

Impatiens downy mildew has been found in greenhouse plantings in several states throughout the U.S. since 2004. It wasn’t until 2011 that the disease started appearing in landscape beds.

As with many impatiens species, these showy flowers feature attractive slender spurs. This tender perennial is an ideal shrub for a shady spot in your garden and can even manage in an area with ...

Those larger plants are generally sold in pots, but at Wenke's retail store, those are available in flats at the same price as regular impatiens, with 12 plants per flat instead of the 48 held in ...