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Petunia flower 
The petunia flower belongs to that most useful class of garden flower, the bedding plant. These are plants which give a long flowering season throughout the summer but need to be either lifted during the winter or sown from seed each year. Petunias are half hardy annuals. That is, they cannot withstand frost and they need to be replanted every year. Most suburban gardeners do not raise the flowers themselves, but buy their petunia flowers from a garden centre in a box in which they have been raised under heat in a nursery. 
The petunia flower has become a very popular garden flower since it is free from the disease rust, which attacks antirrhinums or snapdragons. The petunia is an excellent substitue for snapdragons in a sunny border. It is always best bought from a garden centre, because it needs more heat to start than a cold frame can provide and if it is started in a normal greenhouse, it flowers too late to give a good show in the summer. Only large commercial nurseries have the facilities for raising the plants early enough for a good show of petunia flowers throughout the summer. Before putting the plants in, prepare the ground well by digging in plenty of leaf mould, bonemeal and compost. Petunias need more feeding than snapdragons. This extra feeding is one of the reasons that Victorian gardens had such a magnificent disply of bright flowers throughout the summer. They took far more care to sweep and and stack their leaves so that they would rot down into a fine, friable mould. If, therefore, you want a really fine display of scarlet salvia, lobelia, marigold, geranium, dahlia and petunia flowers, you should consider making your own leafmould. Construct a simple square frame, with 4 posts put into the corners and chicken or rabbit metting nailed round the outside. Make the frame at least one square metre, a little more if you have room. If possible, construct it in a cool, damp, shady area. Sweep up your fallen leaves - offer to sweep up all your neighbours' leaves too. You could even ask your local park for a few sackfuls in the autumn! Empty the leaves into the frame, the wetter the better. If they are dry, wet them thoroughly with a hose pipe. Leave them for a year to rot down. You can even make mould on a small scale by putting the leaves in a large polythene bag, making sure they are wet. Leave the bag in a dark shed throughout the winter and you will have a small quantity of leaf mould in the spring. Digging large quantities of mould into the flower bed will ensure that you have a brilliant display of petunia flowers throughout the summer. Petunia is very popular flower in South America. In South America petunia is ciltivated on a large scale. It belongs to family of flower called Solanaceae. In solanaceae family there are many other plants like deadly nightshades, tobacco, cape gooseberries, tomatoes, and chili peppers. The name ‘petunia' is derived from french word ‘petun' which means tobacco. Petunia flower is divided into 4 types. Following are the names of four types of petunia flower. 
1. Grandi flora 2. Hedgi flora 3. Multi flora 4. Milli flora 
Now let us discuss detail of each type of petunia flower.
Grandi flora has largest size petunia flower. The flower of grandi flora type has size upto 4 inches. This type of peun flower has variety of colors. These flowers can be damaged by the heavy rains. Heavy rains are source of destruction for Gandi flora type flowers. Gandi flora itself is divided into four types. These types are according to the color of flowers. Following are the four types of gandi flora flowers. 1. Merlin blue morn ( These flowers are of blue and white color.) 
2. Ultra Series ( These flowers are mixed colored. There may be one flower with two colors.) 3. Daddy Series ( In this types there are flower with pink and purple color.) 4. Supercascade series ( These flowers may have many colors.) To et better yield from grandi flora cultivation you should do serious measurements to save grandi flora from heavy rains.
They are low hight petun flowers. They are also called spreading flowers. Their height is very low but they cover feets of space due to their spreading. They spread to several feets due to which they cover lot of space. For peoper cultivation of Hedi flora we need excess amount of water and lot od space. Till now different types of spreading flowers have been seen. Following are some popular spreading flowers. 1. Purple Wave ( It was first cultivated spreading flower. Its height was about 4 inches. ) 2. Tidal Wave ( This type of spreading flower has size renges from six to twenty inches. ) 3. Surfinia ( It is also a spreading type of petunia flower. )
Multiflora type flowers has size of 2 inches in diameter. These flowers are commonly used for decorating purposes with different plants in gardens. They are very commonly used flowers because they not easily damaged by heavy rains or sun. Following are two types of multiflora flowers. 1. Madness series 2. Carpet series
These flowers are the smallest flowers in petunis type flowers. Their size is one inch. They are used as decoration with other plants in the gardens. Following are the types of Milliflora flowers. 1. Fantasy Series ( They have colors red, pink, purple.) 2. Supertunia Mini Series ( These flowers has colors like blue, pink, purple, white and lilac. ) |
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