Light: sun
Height: 8 to 18 inches
Width: 8 to 48 inches
Flower Colors: pastels and bright shades of white, pink, blue, violet, yellow, red; bi-colors
Bloom Time: summer - winter

Special Features:
Attracts Hummingbirds
Containers
Easy to Grow
Flowers
Fragrant
Winter Interest

Few annuals are as easy to grow, dependable, versatile, or as varied in form as petunias. Their trumpet-shaped single, semi-double, or double flowers come in all colors except green and orange, and many bicolor varieties are also available.

Most petunias are marked with contrasting zones or splashes of color, and many are quite fragrant.

Multiflora petunias are vigorous and produce an abundance of 2-inch, smooth-edged blossoms. Grandiflora varieties are more likely to crumple after a rain, and have fewer but larger blooms that are ruffled or fringed, and 4 to 5 inches across.

Floribundas with 3-inch flowers are a cross between the two types described above. Petunias form low mounds, usually 12 to 15 inches across, and add color from early summer to frost in mass plantings, edgings, hanging baskets, and other containers.

Notable Varieties
'Carpet' series are compact multifloras with 2-inch flowers in pink, plum, red, rose, white, and mixed. They spread up to 4 feet.

'Dreams' series, are disease resistant grandifloras and have and produce 4-inch flowers in violet-blue, pink, red, white, and mixed.