In most of the US, impatiens can only be grown outdoors as annuals, meaning they won’t come back after one season. The impatiens that your friend gave you was probably an annual variety. There is a perennial species, Impatiens walleriana, which may survive outdoors in Hardiness Zones 10 and 11.
In most of the US, impatiens can only be grown outdoors as annuals, meaning they won’t come back after one season. The impatiens that your friend gave you was probably an annual variety. There is a perennial species, Impatiens walleriana, which may survive outdoors in Hardiness Zones 10 and 11.