Q:My brother in Iowa carefully harvests his flower seeds, and then in the spring he sows them indoors in flats and then sets them out when the weather allows. His garden is gorgeous and attracts ...

With this requirement in mind, a team of Chinese scientists looked to the bistable seed-shooting pods of the impatiens plant. As long as the seeds in the pods are still immature and not ready for ...

If you have this beautiful flower in your garden, you should uproot it before the seed pods explode, releasing thousands of seeds. It spreads like the plague. The seeds of Impatiens glandulifera, ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. The impatiens we grow as ...

The simple Impatiens (Impatiens walleriana) or common balsam as we know them, is flowering profusely in a myriad of colours. As children, we would fight to pinch the ripe seed pods, which would burst ...

You'll want to know about -- and avoid -- these five issues if you're planning to start your own garden seeds inside this ...