New Guinea Impatiens

Don't you just love the colors???

Hello my friend : ) WOW! They are beautiful! now where do I get some?lol!

Hi right back atcha!!!
Your local nursery!!!!!!
Lowes carrys them here as well!

mmmm gotta keep my eye peeled ; }

Definitely,I eye catchers!

very pretty... love the colors...

I have them in a 17inch pot,along with a cordyline indivison,the trunk is about 3ft or so,and the foliage of it shades the impatiences,I wonder if I turn the pot around,where the impatiences can get several hours of sunlight,they would get much more flowers and bigger in size? Or would they fry?

Gorgeous combination of colors, there!
Never thought of combining them....great idea!

Thanks Nan
Have you ever overwintered these before?

I believe I tried once, with not so good results! LOL!
Spider mites...need I say more?! :(

Spider mites, what might that be!!!!LOL

I saw lots of impatiens while trekking in Papua New Guinea recently. What I noticed was that they grew in the mountains in the wet jungles. There they don't experience high temperatures, nor do the temperatures drop very low. This is what would make them more difficult to grow in low land areas where you get greater temperature fluctuations. That would also be compounded if there is also low humidity.

The photo is an impatiens in the Owen Stanley Ranges in PNG.

TB,were they growing in the shade or sun?
They don't like the heat here in Kansas,even though they get plenty of water,semi shade,but enough light to get blooms.
There is at least 20* or more temperature change from day and night,I find these a challenge here to grow for me.

They were mostly in shade or filtered sunlight. Some were more out in the sun but that wasn't usual. There's often a lot of cloud cover but when the sun comes out it's intense, being only about 8 degrees off the equator. Even so, with the high altitudes the temperatures wouldn't go much out of the 10 to 25 degree celcius range day or night and the humidity most likely wouldn't drop below 60% - 70% at the driest time. Maybe there are other species which grow there in the low lands but I never saw any.

Thanks,thats just about what I was thinking,but wanted your input to be sure.