The hard-working Lieschen (Impatiens walleriana) does not bear its name wrongly: after all, this grateful balcony and garden plant blooms seemingly tirelessly from spring to autumn.

The busy Lizzie blooms for several months

The long heyday of the industrious Lizzie

Busy Lieschen young plants that have been grown on the windowsill or purchased from a specialist gardening store can unfold their full blooms in the garden or on the balcony from May onwards. Since overwintering these plants is only worthwhile to a limited extent, the hard-working Lizzies usually remain in the bed until the first frost in late autumn. In a suitable location and with enough nutrients, the hard-working Lieschen continuously forms new flowers until autumn.

Let the hard-working Lieschen bloom even more magnificently

You can use the following measures to ensure that your hard-working Lizzie flowers even more luxuriantly:

  • Regularly pluck faded flowers
  • Fertilization with liquid fertilizer every two weeks
  • regular replacement of the substrate with annual replanting of the balcony boxes

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Because of its seed pods, which burst open when touched, the hard-working Lizzie is sometimes also referred to as balsam. If you do not want the seeds to sow themselves, you must remove the fruits of this plant in good time before the seeds ripen.

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Vegetable garden