They’re a deservedly popular choice for the summer garden, but if yours aren’t looking their best, you’ll be asking why are my impatiens leaves turning yellow? Impatiens – or busy Lizzies as they’re ...

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 attitude in the garden and other arenas of life. I ...

Affectionately named 'Busy Lizzie', impatiens are winsome, happy little flowers that, for many of us, conjure up nostalgic memories of days gone by. They're loved for their full-throttle flowering ...

Impatiens are known as bright, fun-loving bedding plants for growing in beds, containers, or hanging baskets for summer displays. They are readily available to buy, and many gardeners simply let them ...

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 used to be our favorite and best-selling annual flower. They bloomed like crazy, flowered reliably even in deep shade, and were cheap, too. Then a disease swooped in midway through the 2012 ...

Your description indicates that you have had downy mildew on your impatiens. Downy mildew of impatiens has been observed in the United States since about 1994 but became more widespread and ...

Soprano impatiens made their debut this year, and I can truthfully say I wish every flower I planted was this easy to grow. They arrived in 2022 with four colors: Orange, Bright Red, Violet Shades and ...

Q: I've had that disease that killed my impatiens this year. I've heard that SunPatiens are a type that's resistant to the disease, but I've also read they can become leggy in shade. The front of my ...

The sky was not falling. Of that, Mary Hausbeck was certain. Yet everyone from backyard gardeners to large commercial plant growers were fretting three years ago about their wilting impatiens, many of ...