Another exciting brand new flower opened up today: Impatiens namchabarwensis!
Found only in a very limited range in Namcha Barwa Canyon in the Indian Himalayas, this species is a small branching shrub that grows as a sensitive perennial, or annual in areas that experience frost. It is a very rapid grower (I only started seeds maybe 3 months ago and they includes the stratification time) and forms these lovely indigo to almost sapphire blue slipper-shaped blooms, in large numbers once it’s fully established. I’ll have to be careful when the seedpods develop though as, like many of its relatives, they’re explosive when they ripen.
#impatiens #flowers #nature #botany #plants #educational #horticulture #gardening #rareplants
Found only in a very limited range in Namcha Barwa Canyon in the Indian Himalayas, this species is a small branching shrub that grows as a sensitive perennial, or annual in areas that experience frost. It is a very rapid grower (I only started seeds maybe 3 months ago and they includes the stratification time) and forms these lovely indigo to almost sapphire blue slipper-shaped blooms, in large numbers once it’s fully established. I’ll have to be careful when the seedpods develop though as, like many of its relatives, they’re explosive when they ripen.
#impatiens #flowers #nature #botany #plants #educational #horticulture #gardening #rareplants




















