Crazy petunias
Posted: August 1st, 2019, 1:14 pm
Not a very promising title for a thread, is it? But these new Californian things have been dropping my jaw this year. Subtle they ain't , but what a display for a planter.
They're called Tidal Wave Red Velour, which sounds more like a racehorse than a bedding plant, and they go berserk if you keep on deadheading them, because each time you remove a flower they grow another two or three somewhere else. You're looking at just three plants here!
First seen on Gardener's World back in the spring - whereupon the entire nation ordered them, and I was quite lucky to be allocated two packets, a month too late to sow them. Or so I thought. But here they are at three months.
The Tidal Wave name seems to relate to the way they swamp everything else in the neighbourhood. Never seen anything like it.
BJ
They're called Tidal Wave Red Velour, which sounds more like a racehorse than a bedding plant, and they go berserk if you keep on deadheading them, because each time you remove a flower they grow another two or three somewhere else. You're looking at just three plants here!
First seen on Gardener's World back in the spring - whereupon the entire nation ordered them, and I was quite lucky to be allocated two packets, a month too late to sow them. Or so I thought. But here they are at three months.
The Tidal Wave name seems to relate to the way they swamp everything else in the neighbourhood. Never seen anything like it.
BJ