America's favorite shade annual is Impatiens, and this formula mix of four of the very best colors in the popular Xtreme™ series is certain to become your go-to for bedding and containers! Utopia Mix is just what you need to brighten shady areas and bring hummingbirds in on the wing!
Just 8 to 10 inches high and wide, this plant has an impact far exceeding its compact size. Mounded and very well-branched, it sets large 2½-inch blooms all over the fresh green foliage, facing upwards and open wide for maximum showiness. Expect the first buds to open before spring is out, and the final flowers to stretch into autumn in most climates!
This mix contains lavender, rose, salmon, and violet, a good mix of both warm and cool tones. Each color is a bit unusual for the Impatiens family, offering a nice alternative to the more commonly found red, white, and pink shades. All are very free-flowering, and need little attention from you to continue blooming for months on end.
Give Utopia Mix ordinary well-drained garden soil or a good quality potting mix (for containers). It needs little special treatment, and is quite tolerant of extreme heat and humidity. (Hence its series name!) This is one plant that won't melt out in those gruelling August days, and can survive heat waves that last for weeks.
Make Xtreme™ Utopia Mix an integral part of your annual beds in partial to full shade, and grow a few extra to tuck into mixed containers, the front of the foundation, and other patches of bare soil that inevitably creep into even the most well-planned gardens! You will find this annual a carefree choice that always looks good.
Sow seeds indoors in late winter in a warmish (70-75°F) room. Do not cover; they need light to germinate. If starting them in the Bio Dome, which we recommend, just place one seed on the top of each Bio Sponge instead of dropping it into the hole. Germination can take up to 3 weeks, but once the seeds sprout, they grow readily.
Transplant when the seedlings have at least 2 sets of true leaves and outdoor temperatures are about 65-80°F during the day and no colder than 55° at night. Impatiens is quite low maintenance, but give it well-drained, rich soil and feed it well for quickest and best flowering. Deadhead for even faster rebloom! Pkt is 30 seeds.
With its vigorous habit and prolific flower display from summer to frost, it is used in borders, in bedding and edging situations, in planters and hanging baskets, and as a houseplant. Habit is rounded from 6-30 inches high and wide, with green leaves from 11/2-4 inches long. The open-faced flowers are 1-2 inches in diameter, single or double in petal arrangement, and in colors of white, pink, orange, salmon, red, and lavender. Flower colors may be solid or bicolor
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
America's favorite shade annual is Impatiens, and this formula mix of four of the very best colors in the popular Xtreme™ series is certain to become your go-to for bedding and containers! Utopia Mix is just what you need to brighten shady areas and bring hummingbirds in on the wing!
Just 8 to 10 inches high and wide, this plant has an impact far exceeding its compact size. Mounded and very well-branched, it sets large 2½-inch blooms all over the fresh green foliage, facing upwards and open wide for maximum showiness. Expect the first buds to open before spring is out, and the final flowers to stretch into autumn in most climates!
This mix contains lavender, rose, salmon, and violet, a good mix of both warm and cool tones. Each color is a bit unusual for the Impatiens family, offering a nice alternative to the more commonly found red, white, and pink shades. All are very free-flowering, and need little attention from you to continue blooming for months on end.
Give Utopia Mix ordinary well-drained garden soil or a good quality potting mix (for containers). It needs little special treatment, and is quite tolerant of extreme heat and humidity. (Hence its series name!) This is one plant that won't melt out in those gruelling August days, and can survive heat waves that last for weeks.
Make Xtreme™ Utopia Mix an integral part of your annual beds in partial to full shade, and grow a few extra to tuck into mixed containers, the front of the foundation, and other patches of bare soil that inevitably creep into even the most well-planned gardens! You will find this annual a carefree choice that always looks good.
Sow seeds indoors in late winter in a warmish (70-75°F) room. Do not cover; they need light to germinate. If starting them in the Bio Dome, which we recommend, just place one seed on the top of each Bio Sponge instead of dropping it into the hole. Germination can take up to 3 weeks, but once the seeds sprout, they grow readily.
Transplant when the seedlings have at least 2 sets of true leaves and outdoor temperatures are about 65-80°F during the day and no colder than 55° at night. Impatiens is quite low maintenance, but give it well-drained, rich soil and feed it well for quickest and best flowering. Deadhead for even faster rebloom! Pkt is 30 seeds.
With its vigorous habit and prolific flower display from summer to frost, it is used in borders, in bedding and edging situations, in planters and hanging baskets, and as a houseplant. Habit is rounded from 6-30 inches high and wide, with green leaves from 11/2-4 inches long. The open-faced flowers are 1-2 inches in diameter, single or double in petal arrangement, and in colors of white, pink, orange, salmon, red, and lavender. Flower colors may be solid or bicolor
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.