Re: [SG] IMPATIENS

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• Subject: Re: [SG] IMPATIENS
• From: B* C* <e*@MCIUNIX.MCIU.K12.PA.US>
• Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:39:45 -0400

Bobbi--

Most of the houseplants I grow are fairly tidy.  Christmas cactus, clivias,
and hoyas are my main ones.  I haven't grown brunnfelsia; abutilons are not
long-lived enough (maybe I just kill them off!)--

Beth Creveling
Perkasie, PA   Zone 6

At 10:35 AM 10/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Beth, what houseplants do you have that are NOT messy? My aspidistra and
>sanseveria are not messy but just about everything else I grow indoors is!
>I happen to especially love flowering plants indoors, and constant
>grooming is the price you pay. Impatiens are not that much worse than,
>say, Brunnfelsia or Abutilon. Christmas cactus is fairly tidy to grow,
>come to think of it.
>
>Bobbi Diehl
>Bloomington, IN
>zone 5/6
>
>On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Beth Creveling wrote:
>Don't you folks who winter over impatiens find them terribly dirty?  I
>have done it successfully, but found that they dropped so many flowers,
>leaves, and stems all over the floor that it wasn't worth it!
>

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