Stilwell, OK (Zone 7a) | September 2015 | positive
This is highly superior to the larger flowered hybrid Petunias. It doesn't look like much till it gets going because of the smaller flowe...Read Morer size, but once it gets established its very noticeable with its many glowing flowers. It doesn't stop blooming all season, and requires no deadheading to keep blooming. Unlike the hybrids it does not start looking scraggly, yellow, or weedy, stays a nice green, and does not need to be cut back to rejuvenate. In a warmer place with a longer growing season it might need to be cut back, but here its still going strong since may. I wont grow any other petunia after growing these.
Blooms continuously in the high heat and humidity of southern Louisiana. It can be invasive and doesn't give up its spot easily if plant...Read Moreed in clay soil. If you don't want it to spread stay on top of pruning / removing.
This almost looked like some sort of freak plant, it started out like every other petunia I have ever had...they are pretty but common......Read Moreand then it just took off and sprawled in all directions and around other plants in my garden...in like 3 weeks it was all over the place! It was great..and the profuse blooms were amazing. It is now slowing in it bloom, so I may cut it back as they suggested where I bought it. They say to cut it back at the base and add some compost. I may just do that and see what happens.
I love the more wildling look of the older petunias and this one is hands-down the easiest of them to grow. It rapidly forms a large mou...Read Morend that trails over the edges of window boxes/hanging baskets or winds around other plants in the garden, covered in non-stop blooms. It is also the only taller/bushier petunia I've grown that the squirrels here usually leave alone and whose leaves the slugs here rarely eat.
This is a hot perennial in south Alabama! It is an excellent ground cover and tolerates humid heat of the southern Alabama climate witho...Read Moreut fail. I grows in the sand on the beach. It is somewhat aggressive, evergreen and blooms all year. Absolutely a fabulous petunia!
North Tonawanda, NY (Zone 6a) | September 2005 | positive
Grows very easily from seed and flowered all summer long. I already have seedlings where it has reseeded in one of the containers that I...Read More had it growing in this summer.
I also want to add that here in my zone 5-6 garden in western NY, this petunia does reliably reseed the next year. From one basket that I planted last spring I made up 3 large baskets from reseeders this spring after the old basket sat out in the garden all winter long and the new seedlings started to bloom when they were only about 2 inches tall.
Addition to my original description: I have had reseeders since the first year growing this plant. This year I filled two hanging baskets and bordered one new flower bed. I also have several growing in various locations around the garden. It just keeps on giving. By the way it is stunning with Salvia guaranitica 'Black & Blue'
Grows easily from seed (available from JL Hudson's). Beautiful small pink/magenta flowers; no dead-heading; spreads and weaves easily amo...Read Moreng the perennials.
This plant grows wild all over Brooklyn, New york coming up in every crack and crevice,blooming all summer long. They are not perennial h...Read Moreere,at least I don't think so. But I've been seeing them in every dooryard garden for as long as I can remember. A very beautiful and loyal plant.
A species petunia with a lax sprawing habit, spreading outward rather than upward. Flowers are only 2-inches wide and cover the plants al...Read Morel summer long. It's an excellent choice for the front of the border or spilling over the edge of a container. P.violacea is a parent to many of the hybrids on the market today.
This is highly superior to the larger flowered hybrid Petunias. It doesn't look like much till it gets going because of the smaller flowe...Read More
Blooms continuously in the high heat and humidity of southern Louisiana. It can be invasive and doesn't give up its spot easily if plant...Read More
This almost looked like some sort of freak plant, it started out like every other petunia I have ever had...they are pretty but common......Read More
I love the more wildling look of the older petunias and this one is hands-down the easiest of them to grow. It rapidly forms a large mou...Read More
This is a hot perennial in south Alabama! It is an excellent ground cover and tolerates humid heat of the southern Alabama climate witho...Read More
Grows very easily from seed and flowered all summer long. I already have seedlings where it has reseeded in one of the containers that I...Read More
Grows easily from seed (available from JL Hudson's). Beautiful small pink/magenta flowers; no dead-heading; spreads and weaves easily amo...Read More
This plant grows wild all over Brooklyn, New york coming up in every crack and crevice,blooming all summer long. They are not perennial h...Read More
A species petunia with a lax sprawing habit, spreading outward rather than upward. Flowers are only 2-inches wide and cover the plants al...Read More