Impatiens Flowers

If you are keen to add character to your garden and create a swish landscape design, here is an opportunity to do so. Opting for Impatiens flowers would be a wise decision on your part. Your garden should perpetually remain green, but it also craves to get crazily colorful. These flowers colored in striking shades will give your garden the look that you wished your garden could achieve. Your garden would thank you deeply for doing such a colorful favor!


Lay your hands on some hardy yet colorful facts about Impatiens flowers. Here they are:

• Impatiens flowers are aboriginals of Eastern Africa and bloom in abundance throughout North America.
• It is a popular annual that provide a dash of color to your garden throughout the year, thus being an active bearer of flowers in all seasons.
• In scientific nomenclature, the flower is called Impatiens Walleriana. The common name for this plant is 'Busy Lizzy'. This, however, is a strange case of identity where the scientific name adorns the cap of predominant usage, eventually becoming a common 'scientific' name.
• Impatiens don't encourage a frequent feed of fertilizers. To witness a prolific growth pattern of flowers, it is suggested that the soil assumes complete dryness in between the watering cycles.
• The foliage has a thick, bulky appearance that promotes a phenomenal flower burst.
• The height range oscillates between 8 to 21 inches and the mature spread ranges between 12 to 18 inches. As it is an annual plant, the bloom begins with early spring until winter strikes. It requires intermittent watering cycles and should be ideally planted in shaded or partially light deprived areas.
• Impatiens could be used for making hanging flower baskets. They also serve as garden borders or ornamental plants and bedding plants.
• Impatiens flower bloom in variegated colors, vibrant reds, soft yellows, baby pinks, rich purples, and creamy whites. All in all, the flower colors are to die for!
• Well-drained soil fortified with the properties of humus encourages foliage that is rich and thick.
• The care includes trimming a small part of their botany. The method of pruning their stems will also prove purposeful. This will give the foliage an overall look of freshness.
• Impatiens flower essence is used to relieve pain. Impatiens instead of morphines possessed a supreme power to heal and relieve pain. Its magical properties of healing were discovered by a famous authority on medicine by the name of Dr. Bach in the year 1928. its essence also helps one to get rid of irritability, impatience, mood-meter swings, and oscillating behavior patterns. It is also a helpful remedy that assists one to deal with stressful and tension filled situations.

Impatiens flower diseases are of two types: 1) Bacterial; and 2) Fungal.

• Impatiens bacterial disease causes sudden withering, decaying and collapsing stems of the plant and a yellow tint on the underside of the stem. These are indicators that the Impatiens are affected by bacterial infections.
• Impatiens fungal disease causes brown colored bumps and spots on the stems and leaves, decaying stems with yellow pigmentation on the foliage. These are signs that point toward the plant being invaded by a fungal disease.
• Get rid of the plant as soon as possible by using garden tools. Wash the garden tool with hot water and bleach to remove the disease.
• A good spacing strategy and effective weed control measures can prevent Impatiens flowers from countering bacterial, and fungal diseases.

So what are you waiting for? Splash your garden with colors that are vibrant and full of life. Keeping in mind, these pointers, facts and the given taxonomy of the flowers, caring for them and seeing them bloom, is indeed, not a far-fetched idea!