Flowers impatient, Annual Plant

Impatient flower has five types originating from species of the genus Impatiens plant annual and perennial, which originated in Africa and Asia. Type I. Wallerian is a species originating from Africa and are perennial, but cultivated as an annual because of sensitivity to frost. This plant has many branched shrubs are small, consisting of a thin stem, fleshy, almost transparent, light green, bearing numerous small leaves almost heart-shaped, pointed, serrated, dark or light.
 

In March and April, until the cool autumn first, this plant produces many flowers with a variety of different colors. Colors include white to pink, red to purple, and there are many varieties, hybrid or otherwise, with flowers striped, bicolor, and also double.
 

Impatiens wallerian Plant height can reach 30-40 centimeter, I. hawkererii "New Guinea" has a character of interest is very strong, with large elongated leaves, dark green, and the center of the flower in shades of white, pink and red. These plants tolerate sun better than I. Wallerian. This plant grows in the wild places of origin of perennial, and bloom almost all year round producing shrubs, evergreen. Uropean gardens cultivated as an annual flower bed in the garden or in pots.


This impatient flowers prefer locations in part shade or full shade, when placed in a spot that gets direct sunlight will cause rapid drying, cultivation in areas that are very bright cause retarded crop, which in the summer of watering frequently. They fear the temperature below 50-10 ° C, then grown as annual, or can be planted as an ornamental plant on cold starts, in fact, generally do not retain from year to year, as the rapid production of plants makes them cheap.
 
 

These plants require regular watering and do not let dry for a long time. If you want a constant and abundant flowering is recommended every 7-10 days to add a small dose of fertilizer for flowering plants, or you can mix the soil with slow release granular fertilizer, if you decide to grow impatient with him quite a bit of water 'not for summer days a short cold.
 

A good planting medium for the soil because these plants are fresh and light, soft and rich in organic material. They put themselves in the garden is planted in March-April, when all risk is past the ice, mixing the soil in the garden soil is balanced, rich in peat.
 

The cultivation is by cuttings in autumn or priamvera, or to seedlings in the nursery in the fall or late winter, so you have a small plant that is ready to be planted on arrival of spring. These plants are generally not easily affected by pests and diseases, although it may happen that the powdery mildew to grow on the leaves of plants grown in poorly ventilated areas, just lurk a few aphids on new shoots.