Impatiens is currently the No. 1 most-popular bedding plant, so this year we raised 372,000 impatiens plants.

IMPATIENS INDOORS I have enormous impatiens plants.

A few favorite impatiens plants can be potted up, cut back and brought indoors as house plants for the winter months.

L.E.H., Harrison, N.Y. Q. My huge impatiens plants suddenly wilted, and I found tiny white dust on the leaves and larger cottony masses on the stems, particularly where the leaf and stem join.

Later in the year, many a gardener has been able to use some impatiens plants to fill spaces where other annuals may have waned.

The impatiens plants are reported to be quite vigorous and the flowers may have any of the following colors: light orange, light salmon-pink, tangerine and a golden yellow.

The impatiens plant was cut back, potted and moved inside.

Last summer I planted a bed of over 200 impatiens plants purchased at a nursery.

"We have an incubator here," Mr. Van de Wetering said, pulling out a tray of tiny impatiens plants only one quarter of an inch high.

This seed dispersal method also explains why impatiens plants pop up each year in odd nooks and crannies.