Wave® Petunia Landscape Designs

Garden Landscape Color and Design Solutions

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Feb 15, 2008 Georgene A. Bramlage

Wave® petunias solve many garden landscape color and design problems. Plant them in containers or garden plots, alone or with other ornamental plants. Photos included.

Overview

Wave® petunias solve many garden landscape color and design problems when planted in traditional containers or garden plots, alone or with other ornamental plants. For best results, plant Wave® petunias consistent with instructions from Ball Horticultural Company, supplier of the Wave® petunia family.

Each series in the Wave® petunia family shows unique height, space, growth and color attributes. Each then has different growth requirements and exhibits special colors allowing distinct color and design solutions.

Entrance Effects

  • Traditional Container Plantings

Easy Wave® petunias behave by allowing other plants room to grow and show off. They provide eye-catching trailing habits and stunning color that make plantings dazzle.

Here are specifications for a 14-inch-diameter traditional planting of Easy Wave® petunias and mixed annuals:

- One 'Butterfly Deep Rose' Pentas in center;

- Two each of 'White' Easy Wave® petunias and 'Serena Lavender' Angelonia, and

- Four 'Regatta Blue' Trailing Lobelias planted alternately around container rim.

  • Hanging Basket Plantings

Easy Wave®, Double Wave® and Shock Wave™ petunias exhibit great color, with only a little care. Wave® petunias of all one color and kind present the best impression in hanging baskets. Satisfy Wave® petunias need for full sun by giving hanging baskets a quarter turn every few days.

  1. Baskets of cascading Easy Wave® and Double Wave® petunias are easy to plant. An 18" round basket needs 10 plants evenly spaced with three in the middle and seven around the circumference; a 14" round basket requires six plants; 12" round basket, 5 plants and 10" round basket, 4 plants.
  2. Easy Wave® and Double Wave® petunias create globes of color in moss- or cocoa-fiber-lined baskets. Ten evenly spaced holes in the sides of an 18" round lined basket provide room for 10 more plants. Reduce numbers of side plants by 3 to 5 for small baskets. Newly planted petunias spread and mound from the center to produce full, lush balls of color.
  3. Use Shock Wave™ petunias in small containers and add an extra 2 to 4 plants to each container for proportion.

Curb Appeal

Original Wave® petunias are perfect groundcovers; they remain low growing, and show exceptional spread. Use them for garden and bed edges and neat flowering ground covers.

For best visual appearances, plant one Original Wave® petunia for every square foot of design. Original Wave® petunias are most effective in large areas such as a 10-foot-by-10-foot square or 4-foot-by-10-foot rectangle. Use the Clemson University Extension Service guide to measure irregularly shaped areas.

Original Wave® petunias also look good when mixed with masses of color-coordinated annuals and perennials like:

  • Alternanthera dentata 'Gail's Choice' - 'Gail's Choice' upright calico plant
  • Festuca glauca – blue fescue grass
  • Solenostemon scutellarioides - Coleus cultivars
  • Lavandula angustifolia cultivars – common lavender
  • Dianthus gratianapolitanus cultivars – Cheddar pinks
  • Gaura lindheimeri 'Siskiyou Pink' – gaura
  • Perovskia atriplicifolia – Russian sage
  • Pennisetum glaucum - Purple majesty millet.

Camouflage

Tidal Wave® petunias can cover fences, unattractive areas, or become lush groundcovers. They are vigorous and grow based on how closely spaced when planted.

  • Close spacing, about 12 inches apart, yields tall plants. These can form dense, mounded hedges that may grow upward to about 3 ft. Supports like short chicken wire fences around air conditioners or trellises between landscape areas keep them from flopping.
  • Generous spacing, anything over 12 inches apart, yields low rambling plants that may grow out to 4 feet. Tidal Wave® petunias can attractively cover slopes and even entrance areas that receive full sun.

More Landscaping Information about Wave® Petunias

©Text by Georgene A. Bramlage. Photographs courtesy of Ball Horticultural Co., Inc. 2008. Reproduction without permission prohibited.

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Traditional Container Planting-'Blue Velvet' DW®, Courtesy of Ball Horticultural Co. Traditional Container Planting-'Blue Velvet' DW®
Globe Hanging Basket - 'Blue Vein' DW®, Courtesy of Ball Horticultural Co. Globe Hanging Basket - 'Blue Vein' DW®
Entrance Planting - 'Hot Pink' Tidal Wave® , Courtesy of Ball Horticultural Co. Entrance Planting - 'Hot Pink' Tidal Wave®
Hedge - 'Silver' Tidal Wave® , Courtesy of Ball Horticultural Co. Hedge - 'Silver' Tidal Wave®
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