SunPatiens Spreading Variegated Salmon New Guinea Impatiens

Other Names: New Guinea Impatiens, Busy Lizzie, Busy Lizzy

Group/Class: SunPatiens Series

Ornamental Features:

SunPatiens Spreading Variegated Salmon New Guinea Impatiens features bold salmon round flowers at the ends of the stems from mid spring to early fall. It's pointy leaves remain yellow in colour with distinctive dark green edges throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

SunPatiens Spreading Variegated Salmon New Guinea Impatiens is a dense herbaceous annual bedding plant with a mounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This annual bedding plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It has no significant negative characteristics.

SunPatiens Spreading Variegated Salmon New Guinea Impatiens is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Container Planting
• General Garden Use
• Border Edging
• Mass Planting
• Hanging Baskets

Plant Characteristics:

SunPatiens Spreading Variegated Salmon New Guinea Impatiens will grow to be about 30 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 30 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This annual bedding plant performs well in both full sun and full shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This plant can be propagated by cuttings.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.