Re: Impatiens capensis

> I would appreciate any suggestions for propagating this Impatiens species
> from seed. I have tried starting it indoors at room temperature, but
> all the seeds got moldy and rotted. I have also started them outdoors in
> March, but without success as well. Maybe they need a longer period of
> oscillating temperatures and  I should start them outdoors now already?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would like to have this
> jewel in my garden.

You're trying to hard!  :)

I've found that just tossing the seed on the ground in the fall gives me
more than enough plants come spring.  And they'll keep coming back until
they're almost weeds...  :)  Seriously, every spring I go out and thin
them to just a handful of plants, because otherwise there are too many
(numbering in the hundreds).  They're extremely easy to pull and it only
takes 15 minutes or so, but they seed quite readily.

A very close relative, Impatiens pallida, was our Plant of the
(semi-)month in Sep '97:

   http://www.mallorn.com/pom/Sep97/

This covers indoor propagation as well.

Chris

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