My Collection Of Impatiens

I have a small collection of Impatiens. I want to show it and tell about the different varieties of these plants in my garden.

A bit of history. Since the 19th century, people have known Impatiens because these unpretentious flowers bloomed on the windowsills of many houses.

Waller's Impatiens, double, Fiesta variety.  

Their flowers, towering above the leaves, create the impression of a bouquet.  

Fiesta variety

In Russia people called Waller's Impatiens 'Wet Ivan'. The plant received this name for the droplets of sugary liquid that protrude at the edge of the leaf. 

For abundant and long flowering, the plant received the English name of "Busy Lizzie". The Austrians call it 'Beautiful Viennese girl', comparing a flowering plant with a beautiful girl. 

 

 Waller's Impatiens, single, pink

 

 

Waller's Impatiens, single, white with red center

Waller's Impatiens' flowers are irregular, red white yellow or bicolor, simple or double. They are single or collected in loose inflorescence. The fruit is a juicy, oblong, multi-seeded capsule that opens with five curling leaves.

 

Here are Garden Impatiens or Balsamina Impatiens, or touch-me-not.  An erect annual plant of a pyramidal or spherical shape, up to 70 cm in height. 

Garden Impatiens, pink

Stems are branched, break easily. The flowers are large, irregular, simple or double, from white to purple.

Garden Impatiens, red

 

Also known as rose balsam or garden balsam, blooms in June - September. The fruit is a capsule with brown seeds. The original fruits, when ripe, "explode" at the slightest touch, scattering seeds at a distance.

 

Garden Impatiens, purple

Waller's Impatiens are my favorite indoor plants. Every year I take them out into the garden and they bloom well outside. I love to decorate containers, hanging baskets and flower beds with them. 

 

Fiesta varieties (Impatiens walleriana Fiesta®). These perennial plants have very decorative double flowers of various colors (more than 16), there are variegated forms. Due to their resistance to cold, I plant them in open ground. 

 

 

Waller's, Fiesta variety, double

 

Impatiens New Guinea, they have large flowers of various colors that bloom throughout the year - white, red of various shades, lilac, pink. Leaves of intense color from bronze to bright green.

 

Impatiens New Guinea (Impatiens hawkeri), single, purple

I grow all of my Impatiens in tubs. Outdoors they can be placed even in a fairly dense partial shade, since it is undemanding to lighting. But I don't do this.

Have you ever grown the Impatiens in your garden? What's your experience?