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Requires full sun and regular fertilizer (heavy feeders). Prefer well-drained soil.
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Petunia × hybrida
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Requires full sun and regular fertilizer (heavy feeders). Prefer well-drained soil.
The Seeds In A Cup® Methodology involves 'Probing for Nectar' – teaching how hawk moths pollinate these deep flowers.
By seed (very tiny, need light to germinate) or cuttings.
Blooms continuously from planting until the first frost. Sticky stems and leaves.
Sunny garden beds and hanging baskets.
Highly heat tolerant; low frost tolerance.
Budworms and Botrytis (in humid weather).
Non-toxic to humans and common pets.
A sprawling, tender perennial usually grown as an annual. Trumpet-shaped flowers are often fragrant at night.
‘Wave’, ‘Supertunia’, ‘NightSky’.
Number one global bedding plant. excellent for window boxes and hanging baskets
Native to South America.
Abundant globally.
From the Tupi-Guarani word ‘petun’ meaning tobacco, to which it is closely related.
First discovered in Argentina in the early 1800s; modernized through extensive hybridizing in the 1990s.
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