After a cool and rainy Spring, it’s getting warmer and sunnier.
Jewel weed, more commonly known as Impatiens, does not like the summer heat. So I took some pics of the Impatiens in the sun-room to capture them in all their jewel hues, before they start wilting.
~Eowyn
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Impatiens, as have many plants w/o the ‘benefits’ of genetic engineering, was diversified greatly since 1945. Last year someone brought a soft salmon-peach coloured one to our Meeting for Worship, but though I look for it at every plant vendor I’ve since visited, I’ve yet to find it. They’re one of the very few plants that adapt to most house climates and still bloom throughout the year! If you go to the Marin County Municipal Building [one of Frank Lloyd Wright's last commissions], there may still be the largest indoor planting of impatiens I’ve ever seen: a planter filled w/cascading impatiens about halfway up the end wall, a spectacular sight even if not covered in thousands of blooms!
New Guinea Impatiens go on my deck every summer and they bloom from May until October. I plan to get them next weekend since we will get a hard freeze Tuesday night. The hummingbirds are back, and they LOVE them, and Carolina Wrens often build nests for their eggs in them.
I, too, love impatiens. I didn’t know the hummingbirds were attracted to them; that explains why we’ve always got hummingbirds on the deck. Thanks for the photos…
Where did you get that beautiful urn style planter? I LOVE it!!!
From a yard sale! LOL