Garden Detective
Jessica Damiano's award-winning garden blog gets to the root of things.
Downy mildew of impatiens, basil widespread
Photo credit: Newsday / Julia Gaines
Impatiens are usually among the easiest bedding and container plants to grow in the Northeast. Give them some shade, some water, and they look like the photo above, rewarding you with colorful flowers all summer long. But, according to my mailbag, these workhorses aren't doing so well this year.
After publishing a column recently that addressed a reader's difficulty getting her impatiens...
