Celebration Tropical Peach New Guinea Impatiens

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

Group/Class: Celebration Series

Brand: Ball

Ornamental Features:

Celebration Tropical Peach 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 dark green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Celebration Tropical Peach 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.

Celebration Tropical Peach New Guinea Impatiens is recommended for the following landscape applications;

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

Plant Characteristics:

Celebration Tropical Peach New Guinea Impatiens will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 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 does best in partial shade to 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.