Variegated Double ImpatiensImpatiens 'Pink Ice'
(im-PAY-shuns)
This is the Impatiens that I got the 40 flats of yesterday. It is all going to one house. I have never used the Variegated Impatiens on this large of a scale before so it going to be a bit of an adventure. In general I like variegated plants but some are too garish. This Impatiens is really tasteful and dainty so the variegation really works well. I did some other planting including some Japanese Iris ‘Sensation’ (Iris enstata), ‘Magnus’ Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), ‘Becky’ Shasta Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum 'Becky'), Tioga Double Impatiens, Assorted Dahlia, ‘Profusion’ Zinnia and a 12 flats of Begonias.
As I was planting the Scarlet Begonias the Jerry Garcia song kept going through my head. When I got home I had to put the song on my Ipod. Since I hadn’t listened to the song in a long time the words were a little different than I remembered but it is still a great song.
Here are a couple of the verses:
“She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes,
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls.
Well, I ain’t always right but I’ve never been wrong,
Seldom turns out the way it does in a song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.”
Words by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia
That is one thing I like about having an Ipod is my complete CD collection is at my fingertips. I didn’t have to rummage through all the discs (several hundred) to find the song I wanted to listen to. I just dialed it up. ‘Scarlet Begonias’ was followed by ‘Scarlet Fever’ by Kenny Rodgers and ‘Scatterbrained’ by Jeff Beck alphabetically. Talk about three different worlds.
Variegated foliage of 'Pink Ice'I am working today at the small farm. I bought some perennials and have to finish the clean up and do some more corrective pruning. This week I have two more houses to open up and then I will have to start making some return visits to the houses that I have already been working on. This week is the last Sunday I am working for a couple of weeks. I feel like the photographic season is passing me by. Other than a couple of quick snaps at work or the nurseries I have been visiting I really haven’t had a lot of time to take pictures. In way that has been good since I have had to try and make those pictures count.
3 comments:
These are so beautiful. Not only these even the previous ones too. Whenever I visit your site, I don't know which to gaze at. It is a treasure of flowers here.
I still am researching on which Indian plants to post on. Not an expert like YOU, you see. :)
THat is a nice impatiens, I'll look around for it, here, haven't planted impatiens in several years. love the blue 'azalea', too! I didn't know they came in that color.
Down here it is only a couple of weeks away from "Sugar Magnolia" season (Magnolia grandiflora). The song is already playing in my head.
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