Mid-Atlantic Gardening: DO YOU HAVE SOME SIGNS OF SPRING 2013? #3, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
JB--You make me blush----"I would NEVER have a plant that is messed up????"
Of course I can--I just would never post it or photograph it.....

YES! That is my Imps. Hanging basket from October of last year. Sad--no?
I think by then I had already heard about this disease and realized i have seen it for
TWO years already on my Impatiens,,,,
SO--I took a picture to show the DG world what this disease will do to your flowers.

sadly--I will have to think of something else to border a couple beds with.
Will, probably, go with petunias....as these beds get a lot of AM sun. Begonias too--maybe...

These are from July, 2010. Same area--different shots.....E. side of my house.
The little bed with the pot on it is where i used to have a Birch Tree--which died--and was cut down.
Now the stump is almost gone--rotted out--the pot on it is held up by stacked bricks...
See the last picture--taken a couple of weeks ago....It will be planted again--just don't know with what.
This was always my Coleus/Impatiens bed.....Full of Downy Mildew Fungus spores--i am sure!!!!

I just LOVE how Impatiens "meld" into the spaces they have--to complete the picture......
So do all the Coleus--together--they form a colorful mass of beauty/.

No more this.......:o(( Gita