Petunia Ideas, Tips & Guides

Reasons and Fixes for Leggy Petunias

For all those city dwellers, these hanging balcony flowers will add a fresh air of color while taking up absolutely zero floor space—a win for all!

Like every other plant, if you aren’t going to take the right care of petunias, they will shrivel and die. If yours is going through a tough time, you can revive it with these tips!

Pinching is an art of stimulating new growth in plants by pressing and removing the ends of the stems. Let’s have a deeper understanding of the ones that benefit the most from it.

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We bring you a beautiful array of blooms that resemble impatiens but also offer a different charm with their vivid hues and lush foliage!

Before you gift blooms to someone, it is important to know about Flowers with Negative Meanings to ensure you don’t end up giving a wrong one!

These Flowers that Repel Mosquitoes not only enhance the aesthetic appeal of your garden but also serve as a natural defense against these pesky insects!

We’re visiting with Marilyn Regnier today. We’ve visited her garden before (Marilyn’s Missouri-Inspired Garden in Minnesota), and today she’s joining in the fun of looking back and sharing the highlights of her 2023 gardening season.

You’ve likely come across words like annuals, perennials, and biennials in your gardening adventures. If you’re new to gardening, these terms often cause confusion. Well, we’re here to demystify the term ‘annual’, giving you a helping hand while picking your next seasonal plants.

If you consider window boxes a decidedly springtime pursuit, let these fall flower box ideas change your mind. From edible cabbages with volume, texture, and color to spare to plumes of spiky salvias that bring saturated moody hues, these unexpected fall flower box ideas are bound to be a treat. Want to make even more of your autumnal elements? Just about any of these ideas can get an extra dose of fall with the addition of small pumpkins or gourds. Simply add them anywhere a little filler is needed.

From vibrant colors to delicate outlines, these tattoos are not just designs but offer a flowerful expression, too! Keep scrolling to uncover the secrets behind these Petunia Tattoo Meaning and also get some cool ideas!

Cherry Ong recently visited Seattle’s Pike Place Market, which is a famous farmers market; however, she was focused not on the fresh produce for sale, but on the beautiful plantings.

A good idea that failed in my garden this summer involved Petunias. Rather than plant the brash coloured Petunias I thought I would go for some scent and colour coordinated schemes. So I opted for these Lemon F1 plants I bought as seedlings. The idea was to grow Lemon Verbena and Geranium Lemon crispum alongside the petunias for the leaf scent. The weather was not kind to the petunias and they suffered badly in the ground. Those in pots fared better but still did not excel and had no scented plants with them. I like the idea and will try again next year probably with a different combination.

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A simple single colour Petunia gives a good effect.

I blame my orange house trim for my obsession with vivid colors, but what about you–how do you choose what you’ll bring home to pot up? What’s your container-garden color palette this year? Any new plants to recommend?Click on the first thumbnail to start the show, and toggle from slide to slide with the arrows on your keyboard, or the ones beside each caption. The newest photos are in the bottom row, the 2011 update, but I’m growing a lot of the ones from 2010 again, too.Categoriesannuals & perennials container gardening slideshows

Flowering petunias, Petunia x hybrida, are sun-loving tender perennials in USDA Hardiness Zones 9 to 11. They may be grown as annuals in all temperate locales.We link to vendors to help you find r

Petunias are no doubt one of the most popular annual flowers and the best to grow in containers. However, in warmer areas (considerably USDA Zones 9-11), they are tender perennials. Growing Petunias in Containers have some requirements, and you can do it easily by following these Petunia Care Tips!

Coming in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, petunias are the best way to fill your garden with splashes of mesmerizing colors. Many petunias that gardeners are growing these days are a hybrid variety with distinct features of heat tolerance, mounding, and low growing characteristics. Continue reading to learn more about the best Types of Petunias!

If you want a spectacular flowering plant that can brighten up your home, look no further than the beautiful Galaxy Petunia. Each blue flower is speckled with white spots that resemble starry skies or galaxies. If you want to grow it easily, then follow our tips on Night Sky Petunia Care!

Petunias are vibrant annuals with soft, delicate flowers. They smell heavenly, and we’re not the only ones who think so.Animals and insects consider these plants to

Petunias are the perfect flowers for gardeners who believe variety is the spice of life.The Petunia genus includes a dazzling array o