South African Garden and Home – September 2019

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NEW BEDDING IMPATIENS

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ALICE SPENSER-HIGGS

PHOTOGRAPHS

BALL STRAATHOF

Thanks to the new,

highly disease-resistant

bedding impatiens

summer gardens can

once again be filled with

these easy-flowering,

colourful shade lovers

is back

The

R

emember when summer shade

gardens were ablaze with

impatiens? The spread of the

fungal disease downy mildew

put an end to that, and despite the

introduction of interspecific hybrids,

nothing quite filled the gap.

NEW GENERATION

IMPATIENS

That gap has now been filled by two

new-generation Impatiens walleriana

varieties, Beacon and Imara, which

deliver the same bold, bright colour of

the original busy Lizzies.

Both of these are described as highly

disease resistant. In all respects, they

mimic the traditional walleriana

impatiens as fast-filling compact bedding

plants, with a similar flower size and

flowering season from early summer

until the first frost.

Beacon ‘White’ and ‘Orange’