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Planting, Growing, and Caring for Petunias
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Types
Multifloras
- ‘Carpet Series’ is very popular. They are compact, early blooming with 1½- to 2-inch blooms that come in a wide variety of colors, and are ideal for ground cover.
- ‘Primetime’ series stay compact and uniform, covered with 2¼-inch flowers.
- ‘Heavenly Lavender’ is an early, compact, double, deep lavender blue with 3-inch blooms on 12- to 14-inch plants.
Grandifloras
- ‘Sugar Daddy’ (Petunia Daddy Series), which sports purple flowers with dark veins.
- ‘Rose Star’ (Petunia Ultra Series), whose flowers look striped because of its rose-pink flowers with a white center.
Floribundas
- ‘Celebrity’ series petunias are compact and rain-tolerant. The flowers reach 2½ to 3 inches across.
- ‘Madness’ series petunias have big, 3-inch flowers in many veined and solid colors. They are compact and bloom until frost. They bounce back well after rain.
- ‘Double Madness’ petunias are compact and floriferous with big, 3-inch flowers all through the summer. Like their single counterparts, ‘Double Madness’ petunias bounce back within hours of a rainstorm.
Millifloras
- ‘Fantasy’ forms neat, compact mounds.
Trailing Petunias
- ‘Purple Wave’ was the first cultivar in the class of spreading petunias. It produces large blooms of deep rose-purple. It is tolerant of summer heat, drought, and rain damage. ‘Purple Wave’ remains under 4 inches tall.
- ‘Wave’ series petunias are available in a multitude of colors. Most are not quite as ground-hugging as the original. They are weather tolerant, disease resistant, and heavy-blooming.
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Thank you. I took them out of their pots. Soil was still soaked with water. Thanks for your advice. They were Mother's Day gifts so I don't want them to die.
I planted petunias from the nursery on May 29. Today is June 22 and the plants are getting taller but not bushing out. What should I do to make them look and grow better. We get very little rain and I water nearly every evening. If the soil feels dry at the end of my longest finger then I water heavier.
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This is in memory of my sweet neighbor, Alma. Alma had lovely lavender petunias all around in house in beds. There were also some plants that grew along the curbside. We are in central Alabama and each February, she would get out with her hoe and gently turn the soil over along the curb. In the spring the petunias would emerge and grow all summer. An interest note, we live in a small town and when the street sweepers came along, they would skip Alma's curb and leave the flower filled soil there. She explained to me the importance of turning the soil.
Hi, Is it possible to grow up this in 32 Celsius? Please help me asap! Thanks in advance :)
Petunias are heat tolerant, as long as they get a good, deep drink of water now and then. Encourage the roots to grow deep in well draining soil and 32 C shouldn't be a problem at all. In the states, they commonly grow in places that get above 37 C.
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I bought some "wave" petunias a couple of weeks ago, and have been keeping them under my grow light until the danger of frost is gone. I notice , however, they have not grown,,they are still small,,have several blooms, but are not growing otherwise,,I wonder if you could tell me what to do to get these petunias to grow? I bought 6 of them so I hope they grow soon.
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