Impatiens omeiana Eco Mount Emei Winter Flowering Plants Discovered in the parking lot

Discovered in the parking lot of the Brandywine Conservancy by F

dark green leaves

dark green leaves with a nice pure white margin

drought-tolerant rock garden (high class) or ditchbank (lower class) groundcover is topped with round flowers

Impatiens omeiana Eco Mount Emei Winter Flowering Plants Discovered in the parking lotThanks to the late Georgia plantsman Dr. Don Jacobs, who found this superb gem in 1983 at 8,000' elevation on sacred China's Mt. Emei (near Sichuan), where it was growing among rhododendrons and tiarellas. The foliage of Impatiens omeiana resembles a New Guinea impatiens dark, velvety green with a wide, whitish stripe down the center of the leaf. The yellow flowers, resembling shrunken goldfish, occur only in early fall. Impatiens omeiana is