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Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids.
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A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
Examples of petunias in a Sentence
At times it attacks petunias and even scrophulariaceous plants, as Anthocersis and Schizanthus.
Dark purple heliotrope are flowering in pots, and I've also bought purple petunias as bedding plants this year.
Perhaps the petunias can wait until your child enters preschool.
Petunias and lantana also add beautiful flowers and some cascade over the edges of the pot.
Typically, peonies, iris, hollyhocks, pinks and foxglove are used in a cottage garden, alongside old favorites such as geraniums, petunias, marigolds, impatiens and begonias.
Recent innovations and introductions include new colors of sunflowers, zinnias, and petunias, as well as improved varieties of green beans, lettuces that withstand hot summers, and more.
The front walk was banked with crimson petunias, the lawn spring-green and the window-boxed geraniums aglow.
Put plants of fuchsias, petunias, verbenas, heliotropes, salvias and other soft-wooded subjects, into a propagating house to obtain cuttings, &c., for the flower garden.
Sow petunias in heat, and prick out and harden for bedding out; also gloxinias to be grown on in heat till the flowering season.
Plants like petunias and pelargoniums are drought resistant, but under watered fuchsias and lobelia can take weeks to recover.
A range of plants were used including bedding geraniums, petunias, verbena, lobelia, Busy Lizzie and fuchsias.
Thus, the researchers suggest that young untransformed petunias are hypersensitive to sudden increase in proline.
In 2 nd place Pauline Coburn with hot Mediterranean colored yellow Bidens ' Aurea ', dark blue petunias and red Geraniums.
In another experiment with petunias it was decided to make red petunias redder.