#purple impatiens

[bleaksqueak]

I've put a decidedly Halloween twist on my desk's right hand side, considering that the stores are putting all their pumpkins out. Bog Witch to Halloween Party City mode: Engage! (The shaky hand is a feature, not a bug.)

[uxbridge]

Clematis getting a little too crazy in the wildflower patch

[petalodys]

🪻 ❛ ⠀ purple plants. ⠀ ❜

botanical photography ┊ (©petalodys)

[faguscarolinensis]

Bombus impatiens on Echinacea purpurea / Common Eastern Bumblebee on Eastern Purple Coneflower at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[redwrencreative]

Happy 8th day of Pride Month! We’re celebrating Bigender Pride today with a Purple Honeycreeper and a wreath of Impatiens Flowers 🩵🤍💜🤍🩷

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Succulents Part 5--Garden Impatiens

Succulents are a wide variety of plants, spanning multiple orders. Some have succulent leaves while others have succulent stems. Cactuses are succulents, but not all succulents are cactuses. Defining what exactly makes a succulent is a little tricky. For example, cabbage leaves are considered by some to be succulent, but tulip and onion leaves apparently aren't.

All photos mine. Unedited.

Impatiens are stem succulents. I once brought home a whole tray from the garden centre I worked at because they were going to be thrown out, having dropped all their leaves. But the stem bases were still strong and I thought they deserved a chance. My grandmother set half aside, saying they would make it for sure. She separated out another quarter, saying she wasn't sure. And the last quarter she thought probably wouldn't make it. But she watered them all and paid special attention to them and as it happened the whole tray made it!

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[webweabings]

LET US LIVE LIKE FLOWER

Flowers: White Franklinia (Franklinia alatamaha); // Purple Delphinium (Delphinium elatum); // Orange Pansy (Viola x wittrockiana); // Green Hellebore (Helleborus argutifoluis corsicus); // Pink Impatiens (Impatiens walleriana); // Blue Flax (Linum usitatissimum)

[plantanarchy]

hiya! i work in/manage a greenhouse too (maybe half the size of yours i think?) i was wondering if you had any favorite basket or planter combos you made up this year!

i did a few combos i really loved- antique double salmon geranium with a fern and baby tears pilea

peachy keen verbena, double orange superbells, salmon sunpatiens, vista bubblegum petunia, and silver falls dichondra

really im just a sucker for everything in the peach/salmon/coral/pinks

Yeah!! It's hard to remember to take pictures but this year my favorites have been pinks-blue-yellow but also purples with silver.

In total I designed uhhhhh ~350 cone hanging baskets, ~450 planters of varying sizes, 140 big coco fiber baskets, and 50 big moss baskets. Most of those had 10 of each design. So??? Almost 1000 different designs.

So it is tough to choose a favorite lol or remember which was which.

I really like Salvia Icon Blue as a central thriller, then Petunia Miss Marvelous and Dekko Lavender Eye and Lobularia Stream Lavender as fillers, plus Dichondra.

Also I used Big Eeze Geraniums with Dekko petunias again for the big combos and that worked very nicely! Dekkos are a little smaller so resemble Callies but are more vigorous and less aphid-prone. A combo of those with trailing coleus fills in a huge basket well. Also Diamond frost as a filler. Lysimachia sunburst as a trailer.

Bridal Veil and swedish ivy as shade trailers! Spider plants as well! We have stock plants of all three and they grow super wonderfully. For smaller planters, wire vine, though I didn't use much this year.

And my classic and best selling mix is just. Dragonwing begonia, mixed seed impatiens, and ipomea or trailing coleus. I've found that most customers prioritize lots of colors and flowers over anything else in terms of planter design so impatiens mixes are a big seller even though they're pretty basic

Also, I went heavy on the double impatiens this year. I hate them so much they are so messy and dramatic once it gets hot in the greenhouse but they grow fast and fill in so nicely.

If I could get begonias to grow quickly enough, I'd use them, because I feel like they're the real mvp of summer baskets for longevity but unfortunately, I'm growing for looking good pre-Mother's Day. Anything but dragonwings just can't compete in a mixed basket in early spring.

Anyway lol

[forsythi-amitie]

hi i'm back from the dead enstars gave me more flowers to stare at. enstars is slowly turning me into a person who can identify any kind of flower just by looking. i hate it here. Aria: ...the flower of a lemon tree. fuck you man this took me forever. Hiiro: Nasturtiums. this one was easy. Mayoi: Impatiens, aka touch-me-not my first thought was forget-me-nots because they're blue but turns out they're the wrong shade of blue! also the shape is wrong. incredible. anyways i found a close match? Impatiens can come in a blueish-purple shade, similar to the ones on his mic, and the shape of the petals match too. at least i think.

Tatsumi: Aster(?) ...i genuinely had no idea what they were for the longest time. i'm not certain but they look similar to asters, so that's what i'm going with. sue me.

I refuse to analyze these any longer shiratori aira and his fucking lemon blossoms will kill me. They were on all of their outfits too! i'm just an idiot!

[fourthage]

21 April 2024

Spent my Christmas gift cards today. In the front went four coleuses. The Chocolate Velveteen blends in with the dirt, but it’s between the large bleeding heart and the birdbath base. Spiced Curry is dead center, Coleosaurus (which is a fantastic name) is just above the purple coral bell on the right side. The Great Falls Yosemite is tucked between the nandina bush and the alliums on the stair side of the path.

Filled both over-the-railing planters with impatiens. Went lavender and light pink this year.

In the back, I filled in no-man’s land with annuals. Got two more lantana (yellow and white with yellow centers), and three angelonia (pink, white, and purple).

And filled the last empty spaces between the flagstones. White Star Creeper in the middle, County Park pratia around the big paver.

Chives and alliums about to bloom.

[s-lycopersicum]

is there a flower you could recommend to a girl who has murdered several of her mom's plants as a teen and has like one small windowsill that gets evening sun of space (ideally something one can easily grow from a seed so she can see the cute sprouts)

Ooh! Let's see...

I think the greatest limiter here is the amount of sunlight. I know some plants that can grow in partial shade that are more sought because of their foliage, like the silver ragwort (Jacobaea maritima) or the purple shamrock (Oxalis triangularis).

This last one grows some incredibly cute flowers, btw! It is grown from bulbs, but they do let out cute sprouts as well!

But one you'll hear about a lot when it comes to that characteristic is the Impatiens! The one I had experience with (Impatiens balsamina) was more sun-hungry, but there seems to be a lot of variants that do well in shade, and still looking quite colorful!

[elesianne]

I had the best Saturday today because yesterday I got a seed catalogue in the mail and so I spent hours today choosing annual flower seeds for the coming summer 💜 It may be -20 c/-5 f outside right now, and the summer may be many months away yet, but today I could practically smell the summer and the flowers 🌼🌺🌻

I chose callistephys chinensis 'duchess ice blue', rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrina 'cherry brandy', brachycome iberidifolia 'little missy', antirrhinum majus 'antiquity' mixed, impatiens walleriana 'safari' mix, cosmos bipinnatus 'xanthos', zinnia elegans 'purple prince', lathyrus odoratus 'balcony' mixed, tagetes patula 'yellow jacket', scabiosa atropurpurea 'black knight', callistephus chinensis 'milady'

I'm also sowing seeds that I bought last year - more cosmos, zinnias and others.

[unnervinglyferal]

My current list of native plants that I should plant, I have no idea if these are already on the land

Which is why I need to survey it

And see if we have any other invasive plants, currently we have: the multi flora rose, the honeysuckle, and the stupid fucking mile-a-minute vine that I’m pulling tomorrow

I can’t remove the giant fields worth of multi flora roses or the giant honeysuckle bushes right now but I can get rid of that stupid fucking vine before it takes over the damn yard

Anyways here’s the list of surprisingly a lot of edible plants and wetland plants that are native and I should plant:

Rubus odoratus — flowering raspberry

Vitis riparia — river grape or Vitis labrusca — fox grape

Rubus recurvicaulis — arching blackberry

Viburnum opulus — highbush-cranberry

Aquilegia canadensis — red columbine

Impatiens capensis — jewelweed, spotted touch-me-not

Lobelia cardinalis — cardinal-flower, red lobelia

Comarum palustre — marsh-cinquefoil, purple marsh-locks

Ranunculus caricetorum — swamp buttercup, swamp crowfoot

Symphyotrichum ciliolatum — Lindley's American-aster

Adiantum pedatum — northern maidenhair fern

Thelypteris palustris — marsh fern

Woodsia glabella — smooth cliff fern

Dryopteris campyloptera — mountain wood fern

Calla palustris — water arum, wild calla

Erythronium americanum — American trout-lily

Lilium philadelphicum — wood lily

Cypripedium acaule — pink lady's-slipper

Juniperus communis — common juniper

Prunus serotina — black cherry

Rhododendron canadense — Canada rosebay, rhodora

Rhododendron groenlandicum — Labrador-tea

Ribes hirtellum — hairy-stemmed gooseberry

Morus rubra — red mulberry

Ribes triste — swamp red currant

Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry

Tilia americana — American linden

Vaccinium corymbosum — highbush blueberry

Sambucus nigra — black elderberry

Aralia nudicaulis — wild sarsaparilla

Matteuccia struthiopteris — fiddlehead fern, ostrich fern

Allium tricoccum — ramps, wild leek

Looks like you've got your work laid out for you, huh?

Try not to break your back and don't get burned in the sun.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

My Garden Flowers Part 8

All photos mine.

In order of appearance:

211. White Avens (Geum canadense) This was here before I got there and as she's native she survived the purge I did of the weeds.

212. Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida) I didn't plant this, but she's in lots of places now and she's not always this orange, often leaning more toward amber, but she is always very pretty.

213. Tall White Lettuce (Prenanthes altissima) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

214. American Red Raspberry (Rubus strigosus) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

215. Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

216. Barren Strawberry (Waldsteinia fragarioides) The leaves look a lot like strawberry leaves, the flowers look like if strawberry flowers were yellow, and they make a red berry! But it tastes woody and bland. Hence the name. I still want to make a jam of them if I ever get enough of them, though.

217. Tufted Hairgrass (Deschampsia ceaspitosa) Don't mind the bull thistle behind it that I wasn't able to remove, but the foliage of the grass is a nice blue-green and the flowers are, well, tufts.

218. Largeflower Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) The flowers are always bowed as if wilting. They're springtime flowers only.

219. Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) One of the only two Impatiens species native this far north. The flowers of this one are orange. She likes moist to wet spots and can handle full sun to full shade.

220. Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata) Yellow flowers in summer, dark red leaves in autumn.

221. Thicket Creeper (Parthenocissus vitacea) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

222. Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

223. Black Cherry (Prunus nigra) Not pictured as I haven't got pictures yet.

224. Woodland Sunflower (Helianthus divaricata) A sunflower that can handle shade! Not heavy shade, but a considerable amount.

225. Fringed Willowherb (Epilobium ciliatum) I didn't plant this, but she has cute tiny flowers and she has tasty leaves.

226. Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum) Little star-shaped white flowers become candy-striped red berries.

227. Narrow-Leaved Wild Leek (Allium burdickii) Like her close cousin, A. tricoccum, she only matures enough to flower after seven years, so this is special.

228. Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

229. Common Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris vulgaris) A common garden weed but she's native to my range of acceptability for my garden, so she stays wherever she's not in the way.

230. Bog Bean (Menyanthes trifoliata) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

231. Red Wakerobin (Trillium erectum) Her stem broke the first year I had her. I was afraid she'd die but I was able to splint her and she survived to flower again the following year for this picture!

232. Marsh Violet (Viola palustris) Small round leaves grow close to the ground and flowers come up on stalks a few inches above. As the name suggests she prefers things wet.

233. Duck Potato (Saggittaria latifolia) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

234. Purple avens (Geum rivale) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

235. Maypop (Passiflora incarnata) I got two cultivars and they sadly didn't survive the winter. Maybe the wild type would fare better if I could get my hands on that.

236. American Bur-Reed (Sparganium americanum) Fluffy ball flowers. She likes things moist to wet.

237. Heart-Leaved Alexanders (Zizia aptera) She's not quite as showy as her cousin, Zizia aurea, but a nice little plant in a moist to wet area.

238. Canada Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

239. Oval-Leaved Milkweed (Asclepias ovalifolia) Her second flowering year. She's considerably shorter than most milkweeds. Her cream-coloured flowers are a lovely addition to a garden. Especially if you're tempted to get the white cultivar of swamp milkweed, oval-leaf milkweed also likes wet areas and is well-behaved. Why not get her instead?

240. Redbud (Cercis canadensis) Not pictured as I haven't got pictures yet.

[tropic-havens]

Native to eastern East Africa, from Kenya to Mozambique, impatiens was recently introduced to Tahiti as an ornamental plant for its beautiful, colorful white, pink or red flowers

Initially this plant was named “Sultan Impatience” in honor of the Sultan of Zanzibar. Its botanical name has since been revised to impatiens walleriana , but it has retained the name Sultana in Anglo-Saxon countries. She also goes by the names of Impatiens, Impatience, Balsamine and Bizzy Lizzy.

Impatiens is a relatively fast growing perennial herb. Its stems, fleshy and sips of sap, can reach between 50 cm in height. Its leaves, oval and finely toothed, are green and shiny with a central vein. The flowers appear in groups of two or three in the upper part of the plant. They are asymmetrical and flat, have between 2 and 5 cm in diameter and have five petals in shades of pink, red, purple, white, and even two-tone in some varieties. The fruits are capsules containing numerous seeds which explode when touched.