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Petunias
I have just made a vertical pallet planter that i am wanting to grow a mass of petunia in (ive seen ppl on the net have great success with only a dozen plants that grow crazy)
I note that you can get 'wave' petunias and 'cascading' petunias. Is there much difference between the 2?? Does wave petunias not trail/cascade as much?? I just want a variety that goes a bit mad and produces a shed load of flowers to the point where they fully cover the pallet..
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Wave and cascade trail, this is a project for next year I assume?
I doubt you'll find any plants now.
Was going to be this year, I thought that petunias are in nurserys/garden centres at present but seems I am probably wrong
Just got back from a local g/c and they did have petunias for sale, but they looked past their best.
If you sow seeds mid/late march you'll have a fantastic display next year.
I grew about 75 petunias this year and looking great in baskets and troughs.
I've found one of the best and most prolific trailers are Cascade Pink Orchid. There was an almost white Cascade double variety which I liked, the pink ones are a bit too pink for my liking.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Thanks for that Pete, I can never find one that trails like Tumblina or Surfinia.
If you can find some in the GC you can chop them right back, plant out give a really really good watering, no good just wetting the top of the compost, they may well make a good second show.
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Cheers pete, that's good to know. They go on growing and flowering through to late autumn don't they??
This is where I got my inspiration from -
That's very good, can we see yours?
haha, mines a cowboy job. Old pallet + random old wood laying around + a few screws, Took all of about an hour and half to make. Its no oil painting at present but if i can find petunias and they grow well it may look nice in a month or so.
Yup - they flower their sock off all season.
A word of warning though - masses of flowers then turn into masses of dead flowers and I spend a LOT of time dead-heading petunias, and they don't take kindly to strong winds and heavy rain
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Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I've just been to a large gc today and I agree that you're probably too late. They all looked past their best or heading towards it.
Have a look at calibrachoa for next year. They don't need much deadheading, they don't get sticky and the rain doesn't bother them so much.
Torg 22........great minds think alike, my friend made me one this year from an old pallet too. I had bought the petunias weeks and weeks ago, but there was a big delay in it being made. I had to uproot all the plants from baskets and containers to fill it, it doesn't look great at the moment, but hoping that when the plants settle in it should be ok.
B3.........must look up calibrachoa, never head of them