Caring For Petunias In Pots

Works colorful magic in baskets and containers, in color combos with petunias and verbenas. We do a double-take looking at this new petunia star. Entrancing are the prismatic blue-pink-lavender hues.

Hardy, well-branched, enthusiastically flowering dwarf 12-14” plants perform beautifully in sun and shade. Well-suited for hanging baskets and patio pots. Top notch dwarf petunia that wins plaudits for very showy, frilly blooms, comes in pink, complemented...

Nicely mounded habit. (8-10”) Picobella Mixture petunia features excellent weather tolerance. Doubles, 12-14 weeks to bloom from seed. Small but abundant, these miniature petunias are loaded with blooms all season long.

Hardy, well-branched, enthusiastically flowering dwarf 12-14” plants perform beautifully in sun and shade. Well-suited for hanging baskets and patio pots. Top notch dwarf petunia that wins plaudits for very showy, frilly blooms, comes in ruby, complemented...

Plants and blooms recover from a drenching downpour in under a day. The beauty comes in the one-of-a-kind color—the trumpets' white background with yellow shades, the deep cherry to black veins transforming to chocolate brown in the throat.

Supercascade Blue with its large 4 3/4" blossoms was bred for hanging baskets but the floriferous 15" plants work great in borders too. GARDEN HINTS: Pinch off faded flowers and seed pods to encourage more blooms.

Plant alone or mix with other plants in containers and hanging baskets. These large, versatile, lush blooming annuals with intensely colored 3" blooms provide a great groundcover for trimming walks and beds.

By combining different varieties of petunia seeds in the same pellet, we've made it effortless to grow a harmonious palette of pretty petunias in your container or flowerbed. The mix features petunia Lime Green and petunia Midnight, compact mounting plants...

Fine for hanging baskets and containers. GARDEN HINTS: Pinch off faded flowers and seed pods to encourage more blooms. The large, 4-5" blossoms on the well-branched plants deliver great garden impact.

Fine for hanging baskets and containers. GARDEN HINTS: Pinch off faded flowers and seed pods to encourage more blooms. The large, 4-5" blossoms on the well-branched plants deliver great garden impact.

Growing up to 78”, plant works all kinds of magic on a patio—whether cascading from a container, climbing a frame or trellis, grown inside a wire support, or allowed to be a free-range petunia and sprawl on the ground.

Sensuous, shimmering black beauty with burgundy-reddish undertones and dark green foliage. For bed, border or window box.

Flaunts large, soft pastel pink flowers blushing lemony-white in the center.

Apart, so a dozen will cover a lot of ground. Five petunia varieties in soft, cool colors will make a tranquil resting place for the eye. These grow fast and get BIG. They will flower their hearts out producing hundreds of brilliant 3" blooms in blue,...

Nicely mounded habit. (8-10”) Picobella Salmon petunia features excellent weather tolerance. Doubles, 12-14 weeks to bloom from seed. Small but abundant, these miniature petunias are loaded with blooms all season long.

True blue All-America Selections winner has a fragrance that gets more alluring as the sun sets, filling your summer evenings with a heavenly hyacinth scent and notes of rose and honey.

This trailing petunia abounds with blossoms of blue shading to blush lavender blue; the only mini-flowered petunia from seed. Your basket or border will quickly overflow with blue 1 1/2" mini-blooms.

Mounding, cascading habit makes this a fine choice for use in flowerbeds, borders, containers and window boxes. Low-maintenance: plants are self-cleaning and not greedy for water. Produces wave upon wave upon wave of shimmering bicolor coral blooms with...

Rolling out a pure white carpet of blooms, Shock Wave Coconut is self-cleaning and stays white even after a drenching storm. With low-growing habit, it's perfect as ground cover or blended with other colors in mixed containers.

Blooming luxuriantly from spring until frost, the bicolor beauties are magical in a border amid purple foliage and grasses, deep blues and chartreuse flowers. With a mounded growth habit, they exude old-world elegance.

There is no cure for verticilliun wilt, so pull your plants and try again in pots. Whether spilling out of baskets and boxes or filling the fronts of beds with their bright flowers,make every space a little more merry.

Want to learn how to grow petunias in hanging baskets? If possible, water the soil and not the foliage, as wetting the leaves can promote fungal disease.Feed petunias every week, using a water-soluble fertilizer formulated for flowering annuals.

The basic petunia deadheading info consists of two rules: clip off the blooms once they turn brown and cut the stems directly above the next set of leaves.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });This job is simple...

Fragrant blossoms from June until frost and beyond. Prior to transplanting outside, pinch off the top 1-inch to encourage good branching and compact growth. Seeds can be saved if you're interested, but the flowers won't always come true to type.

They're sturdy, reliable flowers for borders, planters and hanging gardens. But what about taking petunia cuttings? Learn how to start petunias from cuttings to create dozens of new plants that are clones of the original and that will guarantee blooms...

Petunias need full sun for the most optimum show of blossoms. A balanced fertilizer may be effective toward summer's end if you're hoping for a final performance from your petunias.will encourage the production of more flowers.

Even if you, clipping off all those faded blossoms, the stems just keep growing longer. Start early, even if this means you must trim off stems that have attractive flowers on them.