Sol Luna Red New Guinea Impatiens

Impatiens hawkeri 'Sol Luna Red' (Impatiens hawkeri 'Sol Luna Red') is a vibrant, heat-tolerant New Guinea Impatiens that brings bold, saturated scarlet-red color to shaded and partly shaded garden spaces with effortless, season-long abundance. As a New Guinea Impatiens variety, 'Sol Luna Red' offers the larger, showier blooms, richer dark green to bronzed foliage, and significantly improved sun and heat tolerance that distinguishes this class decisively from common impatiens — performing with confidence across a wide range from full shade to filtered morning light. The vivid scarlet-red flowers glow with remarkable intensity against the deep, lustrous foliage beneath, creating a lush, tropical effect that transforms shaded patios, borders, and containers with bold, jewel-toned color from spring through the first frost.

This professional-grade 4" plant arrives with a healthy, well-established root system cultivated through professional horticultural practices — ready to fill its space quickly and bloom with immediate generosity. 'Sol Luna Red' excels in shaded patio containers, hanging baskets, window boxes, and woodland garden borders where reliable, bold color is needed in lower-light conditions throughout the season. Its naturally mounding, well-branched habit requires no deadheading — spent blooms drop cleanly — keeping the plant looking perpetually fresh, full, and abundant from planting through the end of the season with minimum effort.

• Bold, Saturated Scarlet-Red Blooms: Large, vivid scarlet-red flowers are produced in generous, continuous abundance above deep, lustrous foliage — delivering rich, jewel-toned color that illuminates shaded borders, containers, and patio arrangements with sustained tropical intensity throughout the entire growing season.
• Superior Sun & Heat Tolerance: As a New Guinea Impatiens variety, 'Sol Luna Red' handles more sun and heat than standard impatiens, performing confidently across conditions from full shade to bright filtered light — a significantly more versatile and resilient shade garden performer than traditional impatiens selections.
• No Deadheading Required: Spent blooms drop cleanly and naturally without any intervention, keeping the plant looking lush, tidy, and perpetually in full flower throughout the entire warm season — one of the most genuinely effortless flowering annuals available for shaded and part-shaded garden positions.
• Rich, Lustrous Dark Foliage: The deep, lustrous dark green foliage provides a sumptuous, tropical backdrop that intensifies the vivid red blooms — creating a bold, high-contrast visual effect in shaded garden spaces that reads with equal impact up close and from a distance.
• Long Season of Non-Stop Color: Flowers continuously and abundantly from planting through the first frost — providing one of the longest, most dependable, and most effortless color displays available for shaded and part-shaded garden locations throughout the entire warm season.

These 4" healthy live plants thrive in partial shade to bright filtered light; tolerates some morning sun with consistent moisture but avoid harsh afternoon sun in hot inland climates. Water regularly — keep soil consistently moist but never waterlogged. Treat as a tender annual; frost-sensitive and performs best where nighttime temperatures remain above 50°F. Perennial in USDA Zones 10–12; grown as a warm-season annual in all other zones. Mature height: 12–18 inches; spread: 12–16 inches. Bloom time: spring through first frost.