Petunia is a beautiful unpretentious flower with a delicate aroma. A huge variety of colors and varieties allows you to create beautiful petunia flower beds. In modern landscape design, these are some of the most popular colors. It is not difficult to care for petunia, it is a drought-resistant plant that is not afraid of heat. Petunia does not like only stagnant water. Petunia today has become an adornment of the club, rabatok, windows, balconies, flowerpots, flower beds, borders – wherever you can find it! Luxurious cascades of flowers of almost all possible shades delight us from the onset of summer to the coldest days.
This flower is native to South America, more specifically – Brazil, perfectly adapted to our more severe climatic conditions. Although petunias are planted today on all continents, even in Alaska. Like a considerable number of perennial plants, petunia is cultivated in our country as an annual plant.
For its reproduction, seeds are mainly used. When planting seedlings at home, you can start already in March, so that by the end of April – beginning of May (depending on the climate), young plants can be planted in a flower bed. There is no particular point in planting seeds in a flower bed – special care is needed for the seedlings and it is best to plant seedlings in open ground – this way you will wait for flowering faster, and the flowers tolerate transplanting well.
Breeders, due to the enormous popularity of the plant, are busy breeding more and more new varieties, garden groups and hybrids.
More information about the types and rules of planting petunias can be found in the material:
Sometimes the flowers are so unusual that the appearance of the container loses its meaning – as in this case, all attention will be paid to the stunning flowers of the Black Velvet variety
The variety of colors and varieties of petunias makes it possible to create the most diverse and interesting combinations, turning the site into a flower garden with the help of one flower
The hybrid petunia has a powerful root system, this allows you to grow the plant in containers of limited volume. Hybrid petunias have more luxurious flowers, such properties make it possible to create beautiful vertical flower beds from them.
Petunia is good no matter how you plant it. To create a round petunia flower bed, you can use only one variety of the same color, for example, only bright pink or purple flowers. Whitewash the curb gently for a wonderful flower bed.
One of the simplest and most effective plantings of petunias – plants of different colors are planted in even rows. With the right combinations, a luxurious floral carpet is created.
A beautiful round flowerbed with a central composition – a white border highlights the edging of large yellow marigolds. Three petunia colors used – hot pink, burgundy and white
Petunia also looks good in combination with other flowers – sеmper florens begonias, snapdragons, levkoy, crops with decorative leaves. It combines beautifully with marigolds, especially if large orange or yellow marigolds are planted along the edge of the flower bed.
In early summer, pansies and primroses bloom – this is also a good neighborhood for petunias. The combination in a flowerbed with bulbous – hazel grouse in the center, or lilies, irises, hyacinths and tulips also looks good. Petunia grows well both in the sun and in partial shade, therefore it is also suitable for decorating the penumbra areas of the garden, especially in the company of hosts, ornamental cereals or Virginia tradescantia. If you want to plant petunia in flowerpots, it can be successfully combined with pelargonium or fuchsia (although fuchsia is much more whimsical), or with balsam.
It is enough to show imagination, and an unusual flower bed can be created even in an old car, having previously updated it and painted the cabin
Today in landscape design everything original is welcomed. Why not use the hollow of an old tree as an ampelous petunia planting site. The composition is a feast for the eyes!
Option # 1 – container flower bed
Modern flower beds are not only carpet plantings; to create a vertical petunia flower bed, you can purchase special containers of different sizes attached to a pole. Pick your favorite varieties and colors – and a vertical flower bed will decorate your site. Both monochrome and polychrome colors are good.
The material on the creation of multi-tiered and raised flower beds will also be useful:
Ampel varieties of petunias are especially well suited for such compositions – in this case they will hang down and give a special charm to the flower bed
Option # 2 – “living tower” mesh flower bed
A vertical petunia flower bed can also be created using a mesh. You will need a net, pot, cloth, and seedlings. From the mesh we make a frame in the form of a cylinder, place a fabric inside the frame, put a pot of the required size down, the structure is covered with earth. We water the earth so that it settles, we add it, if necessary, we compact it along the entire volume to the pot. Then we cut the fabric in several places and plant it in the gaps and at the top of the plant structure. Now all that remains is to water the “tower” and watch how it transforms into an amazing flower garden.
The idea that a flower bed is just a flower carpet is gradually becoming a thing of the past. Vertical flower beds that came to us from Europe allow us to create original compositions on areas of any size
Option # 3 – a flower bed of window boxes
You can make a vertical flower bed using window boxes – for example, on the wall of a barn, arranging them in an interesting order. Both common and ampelous petunia will grow in them, which will look good with pelargonium, verbena, lobelia and ivy.
To create such an interesting country-style composition, window boxes, an old work wheelbarrow and a cart were used. In containers, petunia and pelargonium form an excellent combination
Option # 4 – a flower bed of petunias in a gravel garden
Today, many people arrange a gravel garden on their site – it’s not difficult, but it looks very interesting. Among the decorative cereals, liliaceae, a plot of petunias will also stand out effectively – free some of the soil under a flower bed, protect it with a plastic border and plant flowers – a dark petunia – burgundy, purple – looks especially impressive against the background of gravel.
You can learn how to create a gravel garden yourself from the material:
Petunias are quite often used when it is necessary to break a rock garden or rockery. They are great for delicate compositions.
Option # 5 – a flower bed using paving slabs
You need to choose a rectangular tile and lay it out in a certain order – you get an original decorative border, in the frame of which you can plant any variety you like.
In this case, paving slabs are an interesting solution – you will create a beautiful flower bed without difficulty and at special costs.
It is not for nothing that summer residents fell in love with petunia – for all its unpretentiousness, it has decorative properties that few garden flowers can match.
