Impatiens walleriana
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Habit | herbaceous
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Height: | ⇕ | 15 cm"cm" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15. to 60 cm"cm" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 60. |
Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial, annual |
Bloom: | ❀ | early spring, mid spring, late spring, early summer, mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall, early winter, mid winter, late winter |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun, part-sun, shade |
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Water: | ◍ | wet, moist, moderate |
Features: | ✓ | flowers, houseplant |
USDA Zones: | 1 to 12 | |
Flower features: | ❀ | red, orange, blue, purple, multicolored, pink, white, single, double, everblooming |
Very popular garden plant. Perennial and everblooming in mild winter climates. Grown as an annual elsewhere, or dug up and brought indoors to overwinter. Seed pods snap open, shooting seeds around, which may germinate fairly easily.
ExpandRead about Impatiens walleriana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Cultivation
Keep moist and out of strong winds. May get leggy, in which case trimming may strengthen the plants. Otherwise they usually require little intervention.
Propagation
Seed or cuttings. Volunteers are common where the conditions are appropriate.
Pests and diseases
Fairly pest free.
Varieties
In a rainbow of colors, more double flowered varieties have become more widely available, as have bicolored varieties.
Gallery
References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Impatiens walleriana. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Impatiens walleriana QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)