Impatiens Planting Combinations

Combine Impatiens with other Flowers

• Impatiens can be placed nearly anywhere in a yard or garden to add spatial depth, color and simplistic beauty to the landscape. They can even be mingled with other types of flowers to create a symphony of flora in the yard.

  Roses are especially beautiful surrounded by impatiens. The best way to arrange impatiens and roses is to create a border of impatiens around the rose garden. By planting them in this way, the color of the impatiens will lead the eye to the beauty of the roses. Contrasting white or pink impatiens with red and pink roses is one option.

  Petunias are another flower that mix well with impatiens. Planting contrasting mixes of these blooms along a sidewalk or between a vegetable garden and a tree will add color and texture to the green space by filling in "dead" areas with color.

Combine Impatiens Together

• There are a variety of ways to group impatiens. Consider planting impatiens along tree borders. This is good because impatiens do not require a lot of light, and can thrive in the soil beneath any tree.

  Choosing a single color is one way to make a restful garden space. While a single color can be restful, a riot of contrasting color adds both depth and variety to the garden. Impatiens can be single or dual colored so when using a color theme, choose one brilliant or stand-out color–a deep purple for example–and three or four coordinating colors, which will add to the intensity without being too distracting to the eye.

  Impatiens can also be arranged according to size: dwarf, medium and tall. By placing dwarf impatiens at the garden border and tall impatiens behind you'll create an exciting visual landscape.

How To Arrange Impatiens Containers

• Consider a container garden of impatiens, especially if you don't have much green space but you do have a large patio or porch. Grouping impatiens by container can create the same visual effect that arranging the plants in the ground will, but in a smaller space.

  A low container box is a good way to plant dwarf impatiens. Because these containers are low to the ground and the plants are smaller, this will create the first level of the garden. Choose medium impatiens to plant in hanging baskets around the perimeter. To add height to the container garden, place either medium or tall impatiens in containers of different heights: a large tub or a multi-level container arrangement, for example.

  The beauty of impatiens is variety. These annual flowers die in the fall and are replaced in the spring, so one summer you can focus on pink, the next purple or even a variety of color combinations to bring your garden to life.