Also thinking catharanthus (flowering vinca) if you want an effect much like impatiens in shade. They don't have huge blooms but they have many of them, just like impatiens. You might also consider the profusion type of zinnia, who grow along like a wiry, blooming groundcover. You can get them in shades of pink and white and they're also pretty trouble free. The up part is they spread out and fill in the area generously. There are other options too. Flowering purslane, and the mounding miniature petunias. I grew one last spring.....product of new breeding.........it would not go hog-wild like a wave, but is a smaller, very much tidier version of it. I was impressed and I don't impress easily. LOL. I can't bring the line up, but I'll think of it and share.

Would you please check out my trade list and see if I have anything you would like? Here is a link http://members.gardenweb.com/members/exch/cashclan I do have a few different named daylilies I have been adding this year. I will have to go outside after the rain quits and see which ones I have enough of to trade. I hope we can trade. I LOVE Peonies!!!! thank you Sharon Cash Zone 7

I have impatiens balfourii, but I think I'd call the color of mine closer to lavender and white than pink and white. If yours are a different color than those pictured below, I'd be happy to swap some of the lavender and white for them.

Thanks to all for your help. I greatly appreciate the time of all you experts! :) Woebegonia, I went back and looked at the original photo and I don't see shiny leaves. Maybe it is my eyes or monitor. :( I think it looks just like the one on this page, which is also labeled "Hardy Pink Begonia Begonia grandis subsp. evansiana, B. evansiana". (Scroll down about a third of the way down the page to the "Begonias" section.) To me, the flowers and leaves look almost identical to the photo on the Barbados website, no?... and both mention that the flowers are edible. Thank you also for the info about the photo on the ABS Astro Branch website. For anyone that wants to see the photos, it took me quite awhile to find them so I linked them below. Scroll down to the "Asian Species" section and then find grandis var. evansiana. There are photos of the plant and flower. I am hoping someone will be willing to send me bulbils/seeds from hardy/grandis/species begonias. I would be happy to mail a prepaid envelope to anyone that could share or would be happy to send pink amaryllis seeds if you would rather have that. :) Thanks reading, sharing, and all of your experience and advice! Carol in Jacksonville Here is a link that might be useful: ABS Astro Branch - Species, alphabetical listing