The flowers are beautiful and still bring life and brighten up any garden or home front. An excellent plant option, especially for regions with milder climates, are petunias, which have a very showy and abundant flowering, which begins at the end of winter and lasts throughout the spring. Learn more about it and check out tips on how to plant petunias🇧🇷
Petunias are colorful and hardy. (Photo: publicity)
What this article covers:
Features of petunia
Petunias are native to sub-tropical and tropical regions. Its name is derived from Tupi and means “red flower”. Flowering throughout the spring, they have soft and very delicate leaves, oval in shape and small. The flowers can be found in different forms and the most common color combinations are white, red, pink, violet and purple. It is an excellent plant option for formation of construction sites massive or borders, but it can also be used in flower pots and vases, where they result in a romantic and very sophisticated effect.
Cultivation
Although petunia does well in milder climates, such as in southern Brazil, most species can end up suffering significant burns if grown in full sun in equatorial regions. The only exception is the “Integrifolia Petunia” variety, which can also be called perennial and tends to do very well, even in warmer regions.
This flower can be grown at any time of the year by planting seeds. Unfortunately, this method ends up requiring a lot of care, especially in the first few weeks, and for this reason it is best to give preference to already formed seedlings.
This type of flower looks beautiful if grown in vases. (Photo: publicity)
How should the soil be?
For one good plant development, it is essential that the soil is highly fertile and abundant in organic material. Therefore, a basic rule in planting petunias is to previously prepare the land with a lot of fertilizer, which must be reapplied every few months. Another tip is to use NPK, which is high in phosphorus and encourages more intense flowering.
How to care for the plant
THE maintenance of petunias it is usually quite easy, as this plant does not have much difficulty in facing the coldest months of the year and is not very demanding in terms of luminosity. The most important daily care is to keep the soil slightly moist, but not soggy. The most difficult part of the work is that, at the end of the year, it is recommended to replant it, in order to promote the cleaning of dead branches and aerate the plant.
These plants like mild climates and moist soil. (Photo: publicity)
The petunia is a beautiful flowerwhich has a large amount of color, can be grown at any time of the year and does not require much special care, just needing well-fertilized soil and annual replanting.
