Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I first learned about fabulous annual flowers called “impatiens,” I thought I’d heard the word “impatience” — a term that pretty much sums up my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the east side of the house, against a fence and under a very old apple tree, sat a moss-covered wine barrel planter. The barrel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shady spot in a garden with a wood chair - Chiyacat/Getty Images Choosing the right plants for your shade garden can be tough, ...

A puzzling plant disease may dethrone one of the most popular and reliable flowerbed plants in North America, the garden impatiens. A relatively benign condition known as impatiens downy mildew has ...

Impatiens are cheerful, mounded annuals that provide precious and steady floral display in shadier corners of the patio and border and look great in containers. But they are so good, folks with ...

Usually when I hear the phrase "poor man's ..." used to describe a plant I'm a bit wary as to how fabulous it can be but such is not the case with Impatiens sodenii, dubbed "poor man's rhododendron." ...

Some impatiens plants in this garden lost their leaves to downy mildew. (Purdue Department of Botany and Plant Pathology photo/Janna Beckerman) Download Photo WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Home gardeners ...

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My mom has always had an extensive container garden. A huge collection of porch planters, hanging baskets, pots and troughs, all filled to the brim with annuals and scattered around the yard and patio ...