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, ...

SunPatiens are a type of impatiens hybrid designed to thrive in full sun, making them ideal for both containers and flowerbeds. While impatiens are popular annual flowers, traditional varieties often ...

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 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 ...

SunPatiens has made it through the rigorous testing to now be named a Louisiana Super Plant. Let's give them a warm, or better yet, an extremely hot and humid welcome to this prestigious group of ...

You may find it hard to believe, but should you plant some of the new SunPatiens this year, you may actually have them blooming for 240 days. I know of no other plants that can match this type of ...

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 ...

It’s about time to say goodbye to all those impatiens. They are probably not looking so great anyway, especially if they are getting a lot of sun. But if you really love them, May doesn’t have to be ...

People who like the flowering habit of shade-loving impatiens will be happy to know more about the impatiens that go where no impatiens have gone before – into full sun. “That’s what you get with the ...

The color that always catches my eye in the garden is orange. It is not subtle, it reaches out and commands your attention. Though it is in between red and yellow it is the hallmark color on the color ...

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 ...

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 ...