The Seasonal Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's
Impatiens
Part 1: April-June
Bob Jensen at Trinity University
Impatiens --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens
Among the first flowers of spring are the
phlox and bleeding hearts in our rock garden
But early perennials bloom for a
disappointingly short time
After which the impatiens take over to give us color until October in the rock
garden
My favorite outdoor annual is what Agway
calls "Impatiens for the Sun."
I think they're also called New Guinea Impatiens
They grow very well in these mountains as long as you give them lots of water
Erika and I have beautiful perennials in
our gardens ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits//SummertimeFavorites/EarlySpringtime/EarlySpringtimeSet01.htm
We also have beautiful wild roses that take almost no care
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Roses/Wild/Set01/WildRosesSet01.htm
But our perennials (except for roses) are
flashes in the pan that only bloom two or three weeks
I prefer the annuals that must be planted fresh every season and will bloom the
entire season
I've tried various types of annuals in our pond gardens and rock garden
For example, I've tried beautiful alyssum, snap dragons, lilacs, lupine, and yellow bidens
You can see some of our lupines, irises,
and tulips at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Lupine/Set01/LupineSet01.htm
Erika spends most of her time at war with
the Japanese beetles on her domestic roses
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Roses/Domestic/Set01/DomesticRosesSet01.htm
As the years pass by for us in these
mountains, my favorite annual is the "Impatiens for the Sun"
Agway begins selling the seedlings in early April and by the middle of May
nurseries up here are all sold out of impatiens for the sun
But we can have hard freezes into early June in these mountains
Hence I must purchase my seedlings in early April and keep them on tables and
tarps in our living room and bedrooms
I generally by pay around $500 for all my impatiens seedlings, a few of which
are shown below:
In May I bring in fresh new soil and mulch
in our gardens
While the early perennials are still in bloom
In very early June I plant my impatiens
seedlings in the pond gardens south of our cottage
I also put the largest seedlings in the
rock garden on the north side of the cottage
In less than two weeks the seedlings
commence grow and commence to bloom
Meanwhile Erika's domestic roses are blooming nicely
And they keep growing and blooming from
June into September
In winter everything is white and frozen, but
then this is another season
Here I sit reading and waiting for winter "to pass."
In the next editions of Tidbits I will
show the Impatiens seasons for June-July and August-October
In October they die and are then buried in a land fill
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Bob Jensen's
photo set on White Mountain Hiking Trails ---
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Set01/HikingTrailsSet01.htm
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 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
Bob
Jensen's Blogs ---
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
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---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Our
address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
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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