Asian Tulips | Beautiful Flower For Your Life !

• Icy Blue New Guinea Impatiens
• Miniature Licorice Plant
• Oyster Plant
• Purple Oxalis

Each summer Rich and Luann travel to Ball Seed Days in Chicago to choose the latest and best plants to offer our customers.  This year they have discovered several new annuals to be the highlight of your containers and annual displays this coming season.

This great combination features the new Icy Blue New Guinea Impatiens. Enormous light periwinkle blossoms set above compact dark green foliage will glow in a shady setting.  These flowers especially stand out against the rich dark purple foliage of Purple Oxalis.   Oyster plant is a unifying element with spiky lavender variegated leaves in colors that range from almost white to bright purple.  Finally, set off the entire collection with the draping delicate silver foliage of Miniature Licorice Plant.

I like to collect Impatiens, both Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) and Spotted Touch-Me-Not (Impatiens capensis), but it can be trying. I carry a 12” x 20” x 5” pan into a nice big patch of plants and knock the tops of the plants into the pan.  Seeds fly everywhere but a goodly amount fly into the pan, many ricocheting off my face.  In a big patch of them, there are usually several holes that I can stumble into and, if I’m lucky, I won’t spill too many seeds.

After the seeds are collected, I place them on a window screen to dry out.  At this stage of the process I should hire a cat to watch over them. The mice found my seeds this year, stole all of them and stored them around in different caches in my cars and trailers.  The neat part of this was that they cleaned them very well and when I started to find the caches, they were filled with only the good, pure seeds. Unfortunately, they did not separate the two species of Impatiens so I could not sell them.  Oh well; there is always next year.

The Impatiens are called Jewelweeds and also Touch-Me-Nots.  They are called Touch-Me-Nots because when the seed is ripe the pod will blow apart and throw the seed many feet away.  Kids love triggering this and can be entertained for long periods of time with a patch of Jewelweed.  If you have ever seen a Jewelweed plant in bloom with dew hanging on it, the reason it is called Jewelweed is obvious. Taking cue from the mice, I have eaten Jewelweed seed and have found it to be rather tasty, reminiscent of sunflower seed.   The next time you find some Jewelweed, rub the seed coat off and a beautiful turquoise blue inside will be revealed.  That in itself makes it worth growing them.

Impatiens There are several cultivated plants, of which the most common and most have a long history of cultivation is the balsam. It is also known as henna, because it can be used to paint fingernails, also known as impatient, as its name is impatient seeds of Chinese medicine, was called impatient is because the dose of the seeds can cause diarrhea, eager to find places. The rest is the introduction of several plant species in foreign countries, many of China’s cultivated ornamental plants from abroad, not our country is not rich in plant resources, because of our introduction to the domestication of wild plants and the cultivation of new varieties of research and extension capacity, etc. can not keep up abroad, Direct introduction may come to save R & D costs on the economy, but the biggest problem might be the potential threat of biological invasion.

Introduced Impatiens these types of Chinese names a bit confusing, its Latin name is more non-professionals is not known. Not Guannameduo, anyway, is called the balsam on it. These photos are for my students to learn to learn flower preparations. To prepare for what you want.

Impatiens has many of the colors you speechless, this tiny flowers grow so how does a variety of colors? We have lamented the magic of nature. In fact, in the Qing Dynasty “Impatiens spectrum” recorded in China reached more than 200 varieties of Impatiens.

Impatiens, alias henna, impatient, daughter flowers, Goldilocks. Balsaminaceae, annual herb. Stems erect, height ranging from 30 ~ 80 cm, stem hypertrophy juicy and smooth, the Ministry of enlarged section, showing green or dark brown. Stem color and color-related. Leaves alternate, narrow lanceolate, thin serrated edge. Duo Duo or a few single flowers clustered axil, sepals 3, two smaller side, followed by a large, extended outwards into the distance. Petals 5, there are two pairs of He-Sheng, it may be three, or plena, white, pink, red, purple or variegated, sometimes there are stripes and spotted petals. Flowering 6 October. Capsule pointed oval, seed round, brown, ripe, easy to burst on their own.

Country of origin, India, south of the country, Malaysia. Cultivated widely around the world. Hi warm chills, request a sunny, suitable for deep Chaorun, loose and fertile, well-drained slightly acidic soil. For a herbaceous. The flower is cultivated widely in one of the people. The Qing Dynasty “Impatiens spectrum” recorded in China reached more than 200 varieties of Impatiens.

Impatiens likes hot chills, adaptable, able to self-broadcast reproduction. Full grass can be medicine, flower attending Snakebite, Gray cited pain; roots and leaves can be scattered by the blood pass.

Planting essentials:

1. Qingming before and after sowing, after sowing, do not casing, cover film to keep warm and prevent Daochun Han;

2. Likes the warmth and plentiful sunshine, cold intolerance, bogey sun exposure, hi humid fear of drought, waterlogging bogey. Insufficient water easily falling leaves. The soil adaptability.

3. Germinating soil temperature :22 – 25 ℃ germination days :5-8 days

Growth optimum temperatures :16 – 22 ℃ sowing to flowering :60-70 days

Annual erect succulent herb, also known as henna, henna dye, Xiao Taohong so. Because of its flower head, wings, tail and feet Alice Ju Ran, such as Feng-shaped, it is also called Goldilocks. Impatiens Balsaminaceae annual herb flowers, native to China, India and Myanmar.

Impatiens

Morphology

Impatiens stem height 40-100 cm, fleshy, thick, vertical. On the part of the branch, with soft wool or near smooth. Leaves alternate, broad or narrow-lanceolate, up to 10 cm or so, the top gradually sharp edges sharp teeth, base wedge-shaped; there are several pairs of glands near the petiole. The flower shape of butterflies, colored pink, red, purple, white yellow, throwing, etc., good variation. Some varieties able to open with a number of kinds of colors on the flowers. Impatiens multi Rosa xanthina, plena is called phoenix ball flowers. According to the ancient flower spectrum loading, Impatiens more than 200 varieties, many varieties have been lost. Impatiens good because of mutation, through artificial cultivation of choice, has produced some good varieties, such as the five-color take the lead phoenix, peanut stem the entry side, flowers large and Se Yan, there are 10 such kind of Kam. According to pattern different types can be divided into roses, camellia type, carnation-type and so on. The flowering period is from June to August Impatiens, knot capsule, capsule spindle-shaped, with white hair, mature shells split into 5 volumes of fruit rotation flap; seed majority, spherical, black, seemed to Peach, mature outside the Shells burst on their own, will the seeds pop, since the broadcast propagation, seed collection and therefore is timely.

Habit Features

Impatiens likes the sun, fear of wet, heat is not cold, fitness was born in loose fertile slightly acidic soil, but also resistant infertile. Impatiens adaptability, easy to transplant survival, growth rapidly.

Should be watered once a day during the growing season, hot summer, should be watered two times a day, rainy day attention to drainage, in short, do not make Pentu dry or stagnant water.

Impatiens strong survive, adaptability is good, generally very few pests and diseases. If the temperature is high humidity, there powdery mildew, 50% of the base can be used Thiophanate 800 times of wettable powder spray control. In case of leaf spot, 50% carbendazim wettable powder can be used 500 times of control. Impatiens major insect pests are red hawk moths, their larvae will bore through the Impatiens leaves. If found to have this pest can be manually capture elimination is