Growing Petunias

We delight in this variety's uniquely attractive color combination. With yellow throats and rosy backgrounds, 'Dusty Rose' is dazzling planted by itself or mixed with sun-loving annuals.

There is no other petunia that will brighten your garden with nonstop waves of color like Baby Duck. Enjoy splashes of glistening color right up until frost. Just two or three of these super-strong plants quickly fill the garden bed with a cascade of...

Plants benefit from occasional cut-backs. In the border, flower-mad 12-14” mounded plants produce a quiet riot of luminous look-at-me blooms from late spring through summer. We do a double-take looking at this new petunia star.

Top notch dwarf petunia that wins plaudits for very showy, frilly blooms, comes in pink, complemented by dark-green foliage. Hardy, well-branched, enthusiastically flowering dwarf 12-14” plants perform beautifully in sun and shade.

Doubles, 12-14 weeks to bloom from seed. Nicely mounded habit. 275,000 seeds/oz.; 10-12 days, 72°F. Needs light to germinate. Give good air circulation to keep botryis from forming.

Top notch dwarf petunia that wins plaudits for very showy, frilly blooms, comes in ruby, complemented by dark-green foliage. Hardy, well-branched, enthusiastically flowering dwarf 12-14” plants perform beautifully in sun and shade.

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. Hardy and disease-resistant.

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.

These large, versatile, lush blooming annuals with intensely colored 3" blooms provide a great groundcover for trimming walks and beds. Heat- and drought-tolerant, they are perfect for dry soils.

The mix features petunia Lime Green and petunia Midnight, compact mounting plants offering a dramatic display of gently contrasting color. Here's a new idea in the land of petunias.

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. Fine for hanging baskets and containers. GARDEN HINTS: Pinch off faded flowers and seed pods to encourage more blooms.

Unique climbing petunia blazes with bright-purple, super-fragrant flowers from June through September. 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...

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.

They will flower their hearts out producing hundreds of brilliant 3" blooms in blue, lavender, salmon, pink and white. You can space plants up to 2 ft. Five petunia varieties in soft, cool colors will make a tranquil resting place for the eye.

Doubles, 12-14 weeks to bloom from seed. Nicely mounded habit. 275,000 seeds/oz.; 10-12 days, 72°F. Needs light to germinate. Give good air circulation to keep botryis from forming.

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.

Produces wave upon wave upon wave of shimmering bicolor coral blooms with creamy yellow throats. Mounding, cascading habit makes this a fine choice for use in flowerbeds, borders, containers and window boxes.

Shock Wave petunia is outrageously and delightfully floriferous. Rolling out a pure white carpet of blooms, Shock Wave Coconut is self-cleaning and stays white even after a drenching storm.

With large, softly ruffled flowers splashed with rosy pink and creamy white, this gorgeous petunia lends a cool, alluring presence to pots, planters and baskets. Blooming luxuriantly from spring until frost, the bicolor beauties are magical in a border...

Correcting the drainage and watering less frequently is the only solution if an affected petunia can be saved at all. If you suspect virus in your plants, use extra caution when pruning or working with the plants to slow the spread of disease.

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.

Do you have to deadhead petunias? Are among the most popular of garden flowers. Only if you want to avoid straggly green stems without blooms for at least half of the season. Unfortunately, those colorful blossoms die off quickly, leaving you the job...

Prior to transplanting outside, pinch off the top 1-inch to encourage good branching and compact growth. They usually revert to a mix of small white, lavender and rose flowers. Works nicely in hanging baskets and borders.

Plant all the leaves in the same manner, keeping about 2 inches between each one.Place the tray in a cool, dark place for about three weeks. Take cuttings from the plant in the fall before frost arrives.Rooting petunia flowers is very simple as long as...