To beginning gardeners, impatiens can be a great confidence builder. Inexpensive transplants planted after the last front in spring or early summer grow to knee-high mounds of showy flowers in a ...

Every spring presents me with a monumental challenge – how to get non-stop color in my front yard flower bed. The bed gets half-sun, half shade, so anything that needs full sun wimps out. For years, ...

Impatiens have long been our go-to plant for shady flowerbeds. The common garden impatiens (Impatiens walleriana) thrive in shady to partly shady locations and typically cover themselves with colorful ...

Q: I've had that disease that killed my impatiens this year. I've heard that SunPatiens are a type that's resistant to the disease, but I've also read they can become leggy in shade. The front of my ...

Impatiens is a long-blooming shade plant that flowers all season and requires minimal care. Impatiens are a mainstay in shade gardens, where color can be tough to come by. Keep them well-watered and ...

Once upon a time, coleus and impatiens were shade garden standbys, but not anymore. For several years, large-leafed sun coleus has been available and just this year, SunPatiens, which grows in full ...

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 ...

When Louisiana gardeners think about sunny summer flower beds, we know exactly what we want. We are looking for a bedding plant that thrives in the stifling heat and intense sunlight of a Southern ...

Though I plant SunPatiens every year, I still go through “shock and awe” with their color and performance. Just think — more than 150 days ago we planted several gallon-containers of Compact Orange ...

* 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 of ...