Re: Impatiens Downy Mildew, read it & weep

**S* R* <s*@hotmail.com>**

Impatiens downy mildew? Oh man, it's a disaster. Airborne, can't stop it. Sad, sad, sad. Also affecting some native Impatiens spp. around the world.
Have been researching intensively, talking to experts worldwide, wrote a blog entry for Birds & Blooms online (don't think it's up yet) as well as a feature for a newspaper.
Click on the scary magenta "Sky Is Falling" box on this page to read one piece and see a couple of staggering photos:
http://sallyroth.com/
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. But nonetheless, Happy Spring, everybody! Aspens bursting buds two months early up here in the Rockies :)

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> The March/April issue of The American Gardener has a couple of short pieces about the problem.
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