Sunpatiens
Impatiens x hybrida
Impatiens bred to thrive in full sun and hot, humid summers, covering big, bushy mounds in flowers from planting to frost in pinks, oranges, reds and white, with no deadheading. Unlike ordinary impatiens it shrugs off downy mildew. Water it regularly, since drying out scorches the leaves, and skip full shade.
- Mature size
- 2 × 1.5 ft
- 0.6 × 0.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 2a–11a
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- May–Oct
Sunpatiens at its mature size
A mature Sunpatiens grows 16 to 30 inches tall and 14 to 20 inches wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Proven Winners.
Through the year
What Sunpatiens looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Nov–Apr
Not in the ground: planted after the last frost, pulled after the first.
In leaf · May–Oct
Dense mound of glossy dark green leaves covered in large hot pink flowers.
Growing Sunpatiens
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Fast growing
- Native to
- New Guinea
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Sunpatiens, that’s about 1.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Sunpatiens in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.