Part 3 of My Favorite Annuals in My Gardens
--- New Guinea Impatiens
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
Although we have quite a few
perennials (lilies, phlox, bleeding hearts, peonies, wild roses, etc.), I'm
disappointed
in perennials that are mere flashes in the pan for a few weeks. I've
experimented with various longer-blooming annuals and
have come to relish the New Guinea Impatiens otherwise known as Impatiens for
the Sun. They are blooming slightly when
I plant them in June and in about six weeks they are blooming magnificently for
until the first heavy freeze in October.
Because we have so few plant
nurseries and demand is heavy in a planting season that begins June 1 each year,
I purchase my 200 impatiens seedlings in early May and protect them from late
snow storms.
This means I have to spread tarps and set up temporary tables in our very sunny
living room ---
A May 2012 sunrise in our living
room
On or around June 1 each year I dig
these seedlings into three flower gardens around our cottage
This is the South Garden
Erika didn't want me to take this
picture beside a young lilac bush
In the West Rock Garden I planted my
impatiens amongst the blooming phlox
A few weeks later the phlox blossoms were gone, and the impatiens came on strong
The key to good impatiens is lots of water and no frost
Up here we have a deep well and no watering bills
In the North Garden in 2012 I
featured red impatiens and marigolds
The marigolds bloomed into late October alongside the impatiens
This is the North Garden about six
weeks later
I also planted a few impatiens by
beside our garage entrance
This is the South Garden about six
weeks later
Erika tends the roses while I tend
the impatiense
I've got the easiest job by far
Life has it's seasons. After the
first hard freeze in October my beautiful impatiens begin to resemble me
I line the back of my Jeep SUV with
tarps and load the impatiens with the help of my tractor
And I dump them down below in a
mulch pile at the Franconia Recycling Center
My dead impatiens have nice
mattresses to sleep on
New Guinea Impatiens --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens_hawkeri
Impatiens hawkeri is a New Guinea Impatiens species that is one of the sources for the popular New Guinea hybrid impatiens. It was the first of the New Guinea species, collected in Papua in 1884 by Lt. Hawker R. N. It was popular in the 19th century as a greenhouse plant. After its discovery, fifteen further New Guinea species were discovered, which were later determined to be different forms of I. hawkeri.
Impatiens --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens
Impatiens is a genus of about 850–1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and tropics. Together with Hydrocera triflora, impatiens make up the family Balsaminaceae.
Common names include impatiens, jewelweeds, touch-me-nots, and, for I. walleriana) in Great Britain, "Busy Lizzie", as well as, ambiguously, balsams. As a rule-of-thumb, "jewelweed" is used exclusively for Nearctic species, "balsam" is usually applied to tropical species, and "touch-me-not" is typically used in Europe and North America)
The Seasonal Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's Impatiens
Part 1: May-June
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet01/ImpatiensSet01.htm
Erika's Roses and the Seasonal Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's Impatiens
Part 2: July-August
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet02/ImpatiensSet02.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
WhiteMountainHistory.org ---
http://whitemountainhistory.org/
Over 70 Historical Photographs ---
http://photos.whitemountainhistory.org/AlbumHomeView.aspx
Blogs of White
Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02242409292439585691
Especially note
the archive of John Compton's blogs at the bottom of the page at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/
AMC White Mountain Guide: Hiking Trails in the White Mountain National
Forest ---
http://books.google.com/books/about/AMC_White_Mountain_Guide.html?id=V6-hFq6yHcAC
Find Hiking Trails --- http://www.traillink.com/?gclid=CPPLy8-wt7ECFYNx4AodR2QAsQ
Seven Mile Ford Farm (Wes Lavin) ---
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Photographs of Vergennes (Oldest Village in Vermont) http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=bixby
Historic Barn Etchings Tell Tale of
Hard-Working Children ---
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What Goes on in a Garden? --- http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0
Photographs of Vergennes (Oldest Village in Vermont) http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=bixby
Historic Barn Etchings Tell Tale of
Hard-Working Children ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/historic_barn_etchings.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
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Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
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