Beautiful Work Hanging Petunia Flowers

Depending on the variety of spreading petunia and hanging basket size youll want to plant anywhere from 1 to 3 plants for your hanging basket.

Hanging petunia flowers. Our fast growing petunia seeds come in spreading trailing and mounded varieties that flourish in beds containers or as border flowers in any garden. Floribundas Celebrity series petunias are compact and rain-tolerant. Petunias Petunia hybrida fill the showiest of flower beds or the humblest of hanging baskets with spring-to-fall color.

Petunias are also some of the fastest growing plants you can buy to beautify your garden. However there are a couple of tests you can apply to your hanging baskets that will help you determine if they need water. Planting petunias in hanging baskets is a cinch as long as you use a sturdy container with at least one drainage hole.

As you asked for it. Their voluminous flowers also make petunias ideal for hanging baskets but know that some varieties do require a bit of trimming and deadheading. Check at various times of day to see if the petunia plants with no flowers are getting direct sunshine.

Look for cascading petunias which include any variety that produces flowers on long flowing stems. Eddy Shasta-Trinity National Forest California. Step 1 Check your petunias once a week.

One of the key components of successfully growing petunias in hanging baskets is maintaining the plants hydration. Photo by Julie Kierstead Nelson. Watch for fading colors and for the blooms to begin to wilt and hang downward.

Madness series petunias have big 3-inch flowers. Pull out a small amount of soil from the basket and roll it into a ball. When you find there are no blooms on petunias the first thing is to check is the amount of light the non-blooming petunias are receiving.