If you have shady areas in your landscape, you are likely familiar with a very popular, reliable and commonly grown summer bedding plant called impatiens (Impatiens walleriana). These tender perennials, grown as summer annuals, have amazing stamina, flowering continuously from March or April until we replace them with cool-season bedding plants in the fall.
If they are not removed and the winter is mild, as last winter was, they can live through the cold and provide another year of colorful flowers.
Sadly, a new disease is coming on the scene that may well make this reliable plant far less dependable in our gardens.
Disease found in New Orleans
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