Supertunia® PersimmonPetunia hybrid

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Supertunia petunias are vigorous with slightly mounded habits that function as both fillers and spillers in containers.  They are also excellent landscape plants, best suited to be placed near the front of beds.  They have medium to large sized flowers.

Award Winner

Continuous Bloom or Rebloomer

Long Blooming

Heat Tolerant

Deadheading Not Necessary

Drought Tolerant

Attracts: 

Bees

Butterflies

Hummingbirds

CHARACTERISTICS

Plant Type: 

 Annual

 

Height Category: 

 Short

 

Garden Height: 

 4 - 12 Inches 10cm - 30cm

 

Trails Up To: 

 36 Inches 91cm

 

Spacing: 

 12 - 24 Inches 30cm - 61cm

 

Spread: 

 18 - 24 Inches 46cm - 61cm

 

Flower Colors: 

 Orange

 

Flower Shade: 

 Persimmon Orange

 

Foliage Colors: 

 Green

 

Foliage Shade: 

 Green

 

Habit: 

 Mounding Trailing

 

Container Role: 

 Spiller

PLANT NEEDS

Light Requirement: 

 Part Sun to Sun

The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

Maintenance Category: 

 Easy

Bloom Time: 

 Planting To Hard Frost

Hardiness Zones: 

 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b

Water Category: 

 Average

Uses: 

 Container

 Edging Plant

 Groundcover

 Landscape

 Mass Planting

Uses Notes: 

 

Use in hanging baskets, window boxes, landscaping and combinations planters.

Maintenance Notes: 

 

These are heat tolerant plants, that aren't particularly fussy and need little routine maintenance. They will perform best if an application of controlled release fertilizer is included at the time of planting. This applies to both landscape and container plantings. Supertunias are heavy feeders, but a single dose is usually sufficient for landscape beds in most climates. If you have a very long season, a second application of controlled release plant food should be considered for landscape plantings. In general, containers need to be fed more than landscape plants. Supertunias in containers will need to be fed more regularly to be their absolute best. A second application of a controlled release fertilizer can be applied about every two months to container plants, which will help. However, for the very best performance I find regularly applying water soluble fertilizer starting about two months after the containers are planted gives the best results.  These extra applications of plant food really makes a difference in performance through the summer.

If your plant begins to look open or a bit tired, an allover trim can be beneficial.  Use a sharp pair of scissors or pruning shears to trim back up to 1/3 of the volume of the plant. I pair any trim with a dose of water soluble fertilizer to provide instant energy to help kickstart new growth, branching and flowering. Your plant will take a week to recover from the trim, but the end result is a fuller plant with more blooms going forward. You may repeat the trim as needed through the season.