Every spring presents me with a monumental challenge – how to get non-stop color in my front yard flower bed. The bed gets half-sun, half shade, so anything that needs full sun wimps out. For ...

They can be grown as perennials but require warm, tropical weather only found in USDA Zones 10 to 12. ... SunPatiens is a hybrid type of impatiens that is fairly new to the garden market.

Stop and smell the May flowers, plant Sunpatiens, add micro-irrigation. ... consider some of the larger growing perennials like red orchid bush (Bauhinia galpinii), Turk’s cap, Tibouchina, ...

*Scientific name: Impatiens x hybrida ‘SunPatiens.’ *Growth habit: An upright to round evergreen perennial growing to 3 feet tall and wide. The leaf color depends on the variety, shades of ...

Here’s PennLive garden writer George Weigel’s Plant Pick of the Week for this week: * What it is: Clematis is a popular and ...

You can combine them in perennial gardens with coreopsis and rudbeckia for a wonderfully complementary color scheme. But I have also seen that some incredible partnerships can be made with SunPatiens.

From perennials to annuals, ... SunPatiens. Despite having the word "sun" in its name, this beautiful bloom can grow in the shade, although it also thrives in full sun.

Because of their heft, Sunpatiens might be better suited to border plantings for seasonal color or to add to perennial beds as fillers until a freeze knocks them down. They seem so tough, I'll be ...

New this year are the SunPatiens plant and Tasti-Lee Tomato. Local Farmer Terry Picha ... This year''s Birch Island Woods Plant Sale will have varieties of annuals and Minnesota hardy perennials.