I've heard that soil temperature is a major factor determining growth of NGIs. Within reason, warmer soil encourages growth. I would guess that the ones in the sun have warmer roots especially if they are in pots. As sort of an experiment, when repotting my latest puchase of impatiens to larger pots, I repotted several specifically in the black plastic pots used for nursery stock. I then set these out, like yours, to have morning sun until around noon. I wanted to see if the warm roots would yield good results. So far, so good. By the way, my Painted Paradise NGIs are in terra cotta - didn't read about the warm root advice until after I had already potted them up. I have them in the same spot to hopefully warm up the soil a bit. Chris

New Guineas do like warmer soil than other hybrid Impatiens, but the light level is crucial. They will not do so well in full shade, even bright or dappled shade where other Impatiens would be happy.

Painted Paradise series are wonderful they keep thier leaf color better than others. I still have my two from last year but they dont look real hot right now. I have a white with yellow and green leaves and the orange. I may have another that a friend gave me that appears to be magenta.

MrImp,
I have pink,the scrawniest looking of all but blooming,red,wine and orange. The last three are the ones getting am sun but none of those are blooming....foliage is great w/ lots of color.

I bit the bullet,pinched back the yellow ones and struck the pinchings for more plants.My double"Tutu" inpatiens are blooming but still on the scrawny side,wiating for them to bush out. Have a new variety from Parks Seed,"Extreme Violet" that should open any day so I'll get to see just how "extreme" those are.

Peggy

What is nice about variegated NGs is you dont even have to worry about flowers just the leaves alone are wonderful. To bad the breeders think everyone wants soild green leaves. But I hear that variegated types are on the come back.

my ng have plenty of soul temp and my only quotion is what fert should i use?