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Name
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New Guinea Impatiens 4.5"
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Price
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$2.49
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Brief Description
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4.5" New Guinea Impatiens for your garden, terrace, planter. They make attractive additions to the landscape when grown in containers at entrances, on decks and patios, or in window boxes.
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Extended Description
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Outdoor Container Culture – New Guinea Impatiens make attractive additions to the landscape when grown in containers at entrances, on decks and patios, or in window boxes. Choose pots at least 8 to 12 inches in diameter, large enough to hold enough substrate for a good root system, and to contain enough water to prevent wilting during hot, dry weather. Plants may need to be repotted into larger containers later in the season if they have grown large and begin to wilt between waterings. Guinea Impatiens can take more sun than the other types. In fact, New Guinea Impatiens have to have some sun to bloom well. A couple of hours a day, early or late in the afternoon. In excessive heat they can sometimes sometimes go out of bloom.
In coastal areas you will sometimes see regular impatiens growing and blooming, planted in the ground in full sun. How do they do it? If you start your Impatiens early in the growing season and let them get hardened off to the sun they can take a surprising amount. (Compare it to your going to the beach to get a tan.) They tend to shade themselves by putting out alot of flowers and leaves on the top. Look closely though, and you'll see they are yellow underneath with very few leaves. So, if you do plant them in the sun keep them well fed, they are under alot of stress. IMPORTANT, growing in the ground in the sun does not mean the same applies to your hanging Impatiens as a basket. When you hang up a basket, the heat and the sun hit the pot and the foliage and heat them up. Stress number one. You, being the nice person you are, see your plant wilting and immediately rush out to water it. Unfortunately this doesn't help, it just drowns the plant which is unable to take up the water. Add another stress to the list. The best thing you can do is take it down and put it in the shade outdoors.
Fertilizing: Use a slow release fertilizer or feed with a liquid fertilizer every two weeks during the growing season. For us this starts in about March and goes until around the beginning of November. Of course there are exceptions to this, but you get the idea.
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