If it's too hot to enjoy your daytime blossoms, a night blooming garden will allow you to enjoy your garden in the cooler evening air.Most night blooming plants produce white flowers, but a few have colors as well, but against the dark backdrop of night,...
Make a hole in the soil mix with a pencil and place the powdered stem in the hole. You'll have bloom-ready petunias as soon as the frost leaves, first thing next spring. But what about taking petunia cuttings?
Choose a product labeled 10/30/10. If foliage begins to brown and die as summer wanes, clip it off right above a set of healthy leaves. It is possible that the petunias have been fertilized with a high nitrogen plant food, resulting in lush foliage, but...
But cutting back petunia plants is essential to keeping them looking their best during their short stay in your garden.You must have noticed how, over time, your fabulous hanging petunia baskets suddenly look awful, with stringy, yard-long stems dangling...
Multiflora petunias are available in both single and double varieties.Milliflora petunia varieties produce masses of 1- to 1 ½-inch blooms on miniature plants. They tolerate heat and drought fairly well and generally require no
If you're really serious about adding some color to your garden or patio, however, you might want some companions for petunias to mix things up a bit. Keep reading to learn what to plant with petunias.One of the great things about petunias is that they...
Search for “petunia” in the images section of your web browser and you'll be treated to a cornucopia of color. Viewing petunia photos might inspire you to run out to your local nursery and buy every petunia plant in sight.One of the fabulous features...
This relatively new petunia variety has taken the gardening world by storm, and rightly so. They will continue to grow and bloom without your having to snip one bloom. Keep the soil moist, but never soggy.Feed them with an all-purpose fertilizer when...
If your petunias are in the shade, that might be your problem.like to eat petunias, opening up sores in the leaves that allow disease in. Spray for aphids and budworms if you see them.can all lead to wilting leaves.
For example, cover petunias loosely with an old sheet in the evening, then remove the sheet as soon as the temperature moderates in the morning.If it's windy, be sure to anchor the sheet with rocks or bricks.
Otherwise, leave them undisturbed until spring when you can transplant them back outdoors.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });Taking 2- to 3-inch cuttings before the first fall frost is a great way to overwinter...
Soil prepared before planting petunias should have well-composted organic matter worked in.Care of petunias will include regular fertilization with a balanced, water soluble fertilizer designed for blooming plants.
Keep reading to learn how to grow petunias in containers.Petunia container care is very easy. Soil in containers is prone to heating up and drying out much faster than soil in the garden, but petunias are particularly hot and dry hardy.
Do not add them to the compost pile, as average temperatures are not high enough to destroy the disease and you could inadvertently spread it around your garden. It is transmitted through aphids but also in soil and through the hands of tobacco users.
It does them no good to plant them early in the garden, as they'll just sit and sulk or rot. Place the plants on a shelf and hang the light directly above them. Don't bother to buy special plant-growing light.
Propagating night blooming cereus from cuttings is faster and easier than trying to start new plants from seed. Just before blooms form, use a high phosphorus food to improve blooming.If any damage occurs to the stems and leaves, simply cut it off, trim...
Yet you would be hard pressed to find any but the white varieties - and perhaps ´Green Goddess´ - being used in this way.A wild pink variety resembling 'Kiwi Blush' is found in eastern South Africa and growers have reported this to be very hardy.
Once you have the tuber in position, pat the soil around it gently and add a good layer of mulch to retain moisture.• Space large-flowering dahlias at least a foot apart and up to three feet apart.
No matter which genus, the plant is a Cereus night blooming cactus.This cactus variety is generally grown as a houseplant in all but the hottest regions of the United States. Save the cut ends and plant them to create more of the Cereus night blooming...
Ferns have such a beautiful texture with their lacy fronds, they don't even need to bloom. All things considered, it is still nice to have blooms from March till November.This list should give you and idea of when selected easy to grow perennials begin...
But with their reliable sturdiness and the new hybrid varieties now available, petunias deserve another look This year, I've ordered seeds for ‘Rambling Burgundy Chrome' and ‘Double Cascade Mix' hybrid petunias, and I can't wait to see them in bloom!When...
Some critics say that although the photos tend to show plants with lots of blossoms, they may not flower particularly well, once planted in the average garden. Let me be among the first, regarding these petunias.
The second, less pleasant surprise is olfactory in nature, due to the odor that emanates from it. The seed head, very striking in its own right, appears later the following summer, after the leaves have died back.
All this is not really unique, and my goal is to capture something unique. They can't hide, really. Up close, the light brown one is adorable as he sips nectar with his "straw".Skipper butterflies also come in the white-spotted variety.
When deciding which plants to take inside with you for the cold months, keep in mind that pelargoniums will do fairly well, as dry air doesn't bother them much.Wax begonias also don't require a huge amount of light or humidity.But I've discovered a few...
When impatiens are not deadheaded the previous year, garden beds sprout impatiens in the early spring when the soil temperatures warm up. To prevent causing few blooms, plant your impatiens in areas of partial shade.
This will result in shorter plants with more flowering stalks. The Hollyhock is a long-blooming summer favorite. Hollyhocks are still grown at Monticello and thought to be its descendants.
