Impatiens Solarscape®: The seed-based choice for city landscapes
TRIAL-PROVEN ACROSS FRANCE: RELIABLE, RESILIENT AND ROYALTY FREE
As the demands of modern city landscaping evolve, so are the expectations from the plants we grow. With climate variability, budget pressure, and a need for low-maintenance solutions, there’s never been a better time to rethink the plants we use in our cities. Enter Solarscape®: the first interspecific Impatiens series from seed. Developed for modern urban needs, Solarscape delivers tropical colour, strong resilience, and outstanding landscape performance, from full sun to shade. And the best part? It does all that without royalties, and with the flexibility of year-round seed availability.
WHY SOLARSCAPE WORKS FOR YOU
Whether you're producing for municipalities, landscapers or retailers, Solarscape is a smart, efficient choice:
- Flexibility and year-round availability of seed input, without the royalties associated with vegetative varieties.
- High-impact, Low-maintenance: With a mounded habit and tropical-hued, satiny blooms, Solarscape keeps urban spaces vibrant with minimal upkeep.
- Strong rooting system, filling beds and containers fast.
- Sun- and Shade-Tolerant: Solarscape can handle water-stress and thrives in sun and shady conditions - making it ideal for municipal bedding, roundabouts, and containers in unpredictable climates.
Solarscape is built to simplify your production, while enhancing your offer to customers and cities.
2024 TRIALS ACROSS FRANCE
To demonstrate Solarscape’s garden and landscape performance in real conditions, we partnered with municipalities and trial stations across France.
Our key-learnings from our 2024 trials:
MUNICIPALITIES Urban Landscaping
- Albi & Beaune: Uniform flowering, bold colour and strong plant habit – indistinguishable from other top-tier interspecifics.
- Evian: Abundant flowering continued well into October, proving its resilience and extended seasonal value.
- Paris & Lyon: Visitors were quick to notice Solarscape’s summer performance in public beds, with feedback highlighting plant vigour and visual appeal.
- Châteauroux & Tours: Challenging full-sun, dry conditions highlighted the importance of initial establishment and water management – but overall resilience still impressed.
TRIAL STATIONS
- Astredhor SO & AURA: Solarscape excelled in both standard and water-stress conditions, consistently among the best-rated for bloom quality, plant habit, and resilience. Selected as a trial favourite.
One repeated request? More colours, please! A great sign of market readiness.
For more detailed insights and background on the trial sites, observations, and performance comparisons, feel free to contact
Sylvia Rocheteau, our Area Manager for South Europe.
She’ll be happy to share the full picture and support your planning for 2025.
A TRUE PRO LANDSCAPE PERFORMER
By various trials worldwide Solarscape has earned PanAmerican Seed’s Pro Landscape Performer title by meeting three key needs for growers and public planting schemes:
- Visual consistency, even in tough climates.
- Rapid fill-in, reducing weed competition and gaps.
- Low-maintenance care, with reliable performance all summer.
Whether you manage plant supply for cities, garden centres, or landscape contractors, Solarscape is the seed-based impatiens that won’t let you down.
