Double Impatiens 'appleblossom'

Wow..., it looks huge ! Alot larger than the colored double impatien blooms. It looks like a gardenia. I'll have to look for some of these here.

Thank you FC. I am so happy with this one. The blooms are a little larger than the old Ike half dollar coin. And really impressive with all these petals. They are growing happily here and already reseeding as well I'm seeing.

You certainly have picked a winner there GT !

GT:

What type of fertilizer are you feeding those Impatiens?
This is one large flower!

I just started to fertilize two weeks after this. I only give a flower booster of miracle grow once every two weeks. It hadn't received anything when I took this. I'm really impressed with this variety altogether. I do feed super thrive hormone with the fertilizer. I don't usually feed more than twice a season, but I wasn't seeing flowers and such quick enough this year to fulfilll me. (really I had a slow start). :-)

GT:

Thanks for the fertilizing advice! Your plants are really responding
very well!

Remember my 24 hour sun as well. That is a big contributer. Also, our angle through the atmosphere gives our garden almost exclusive yellow and green spectrum light which is a summer growth promoter, so things really get big.

GT:

That's the secrets...LOL!

That's really interesting about the yellow and green spectrum light...however, the 24 hours of sun is not part of the natural cycle of plants though.

They never rest. Its true.

GT:

Most of the native plants and trees, I assume would be used to the 24 hours of daylight. However, the non-native plants would be affected differently...that's just my educated guess...although your beautiful healthy plants seem to prove me incorrect! : > )

Most are happy enough, unless the evening chill is just too cool. They just grow actively all season. Native's difference is that they must freeze each year to perform. And/or they sprout after a time period not from warmth. Non-natives are lost from early warmth starting them too early. And of course some thing don't survive freeze at all.

GT:

Does it ever get close to freezing during the summer?

It can snow, but thats is all unusual, not common. If you live on the permafrost, then you might have risk all summer. That is lower ground.

GT:

WOW! That's incredible! I can't comprehend snow in the middle of summer...it just doesn't compute in my brain! LOL!

It is bizarre to be in. Those are sad summers. I lived in lower ground and lost things mid summer two years there. Always sad to think, its chilly and step outside and see things all grey and hanging. But a good summer like this one, there is just heat and sun all day and night. August is the rain month, so I might not see much more of it. There are even a few autumn leaves starting to show. Surprizing is the hawaiian families that move here. "Why?" I always wonder. :-)