About
The plants have oval shaped, sticky and hairy mid-green, light-green or variegated leaves and produce copius trumpet-shaped, flowers in an incredible range of colours, from pure white through pale blush colours to different shades and tones of yellow, red, pink, mauve, lilac and purple. The 'Surfinia' series of Petunias covers a very popular and wide range of compact, vigorous, slowly spreading, mounding, semi-trailing, and fully trailing floriferous tender perennial petunias usually grown as seasonal bedding, seasonal ground cover and container plants for patios and balconies. Some cultivars have rich veining, some flowers with pale or white throats, and some 'blush', 'picotee', ruffled 'double' varieteis and novelty varieties too. Flower size ranges from small to very large, so aprroximately from 4 to 8 cm across.
About the genus
Petunia can be annuals or perennials, with simple leaves and large, solitary, trumpet-shaped flowers in the upper leaf axils from late spring to autumn
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