![]() Ĭalibrachoa was named by Vicente Cervantes after Antonio de la Cal y Bracho, a 19th-century Mexican botanist and pharmacologist.Ĭalibrachoa are small shrubs or herbaceous plants with woody shoot axis that grow annual or perennial. Petchoa is a hybrid genus derived from crossing the genetically similar Calibrachoa and Petunia. However, on further examination it has been found that there are major differences in chromosomes, corresponding to external differences and fertilization factors that distinguished the two genera. Three to five weeks after sowing, your petunia seedlings should be large enough to transplant.Calibrachoa are closely related to Petunia.Light is needed for germination but the tray may be covered with clear plastic to retain moisture until the seedlings appear.Press the seeds down so that they come in contact with the mix.Gently tap the seeds out of the packet for an even spread (pre-mixing with equal parts of dry sand can help).Petunia seed is very tiny, but not difficult to strike. Most modern strains drop their flowers cleanly and generally don’t require dead-heading, but occasional light trimming keeps plants looking tidy and encourages further flowering.Use slow release fertiliser at planting time with extra liquid feeding up to three times during the season. Although petunias are drought tolerant, they’ll give their best performance with summer watering.Well-drained soil or potting mix is essential.Petunias will flower in full sun or partial shade, but the more sun they see, the more they’ll flower.Dubbed the ‘all-weather’ petunias, SuperCals grow about 30cm tall by 40cm wide. These plants combine large flowers with small, non-sticky leaves on a vigorous heat tolerant plant that is more cold tolerant than most petunias. See the full range of Calibrachoa colours at Dwarf Calibrachoas, ‘ Calipetites’ produce tiny flowers on close-packed low growing plants just 15cm tall x 30cm wide, ideal for pots and for beautifying outdoor table tops, they also make colourful groundcover or garden edging.Ĭrossing Petunia with Calibrachoa to combine the best qualities of each has resulted in the SuperCal Petchoas. Like their larger flowered cousins they are long blooming, sun loving and highly weather tolerant. The small flowers, just a few centimetres wide, are produced in teeming hundreds, completely smothering the strong spreading plants. Calibrachoas are also known as ‘Millionbells’, ‘Superbells’, and ‘Sunbells’. The dainty bell flowers of the Calibrachoas are mini petunias but are classified as a separate plant species. ‘ Crazytunias’ are set apart by their vigorous yet tight, chunky growth habit and their uniquely beautiful colours, including darkest unfading ‘Black Mamba’, 'Passion Punch', and new for 2021, 'Tiki Torch', 'Cherry Jubilee' and 'Pulse'. They will take a light frost, although in colder climates they’re best in tubs to survive the winter. The Bubblegum petunias are truly perennial and will last for about 3 years in pots or planted in the garden. These super vigorous, low- maintenance plants are great landscape or basket fillers, reaching 40-60cm tall and covering at least 60cm in diameter. The top-rated ‘ Bubblegum’ series of fuss-free, perpetual summer bloomers in shades of pink and white are possibly the best on the market. Still a top choice among gardeners internationally, they keep on getting better. The ‘ Colourwave’ petunias started a petunia revolution when they romped onto the scene in the mid nineties, flowering continuously for six to nine months. Petunias are often mixed with ivy geraniums, silver helichrysum, yellow bidens and blue or white lobelias, but there is hardly a more failsafe choice for summer pots, window boxes and hanging baskets than petunias. No matter how small your garden or how limiting your soil may be, petunias make it easy and inexpensive to fill your summer with flowers. The sooner you plant them, the longer you’ll enjoy their startling effects! The velvet trumpets range from coin-size to cup-size and they’re produced in astounding volume in a non-stop display from spring till the first frosts of winter. How do you like your petunias? Big and blousy or dainty and diminutive? Spreading and tumbling or chunky and upright? Striped, starred, multi-toned or plain? Bright brazen reds, pinks and yellows, cool blues and purples, ‘antique’ pastels, snowy white, or black as night? Whatever your look, you’ll find it among today’s amazing smorgasbord of vigorous, floriferous and long flowering petunias.
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