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Garden Detective: sorry impatiens in '11

Some Long Islanders didn't have much luck growing

Photo credit: Newsday / Julia Gaines | Some Long Islanders didn't have much luck growing impatiens in 2011.

Jessica Damiano

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DEAR JESSICA: I have a garden that gets only about four hours of sun, which has been perfect for impatiens. But not this year. The usual packhorse of shady gardens, my impatiens were skimpy and dwarfed. They never grew and, worse, began to die off in the middle of the summer. I noticed this happening to some of my neighbor's impatiens as well. Then a landscaper told me it happened all over Long...

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