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flowers are edible and excellent for cake<br />

decorations, fresh or sugared.The Pansy is<br />

associated with modesty.<br />

Pansy Show Swiss Giant 100520<br />

Vigorous, huge gracefully waved flowers<br />

with a thick velvety texture. Blooms are<br />

3-4"(7.5-10 cm). Mixture of intermediate<br />

shades of white, yellow, red, scarlet, dark<br />

blue, and violet. Start indoors 10-12<br />

weeks before last frost date.<br />

— PETUNIA —<br />

Annual<br />

botanical: Petunia hybrida<br />

Start Early!<br />

Petunias must be started indoors to reach<br />

full maturity in Canadian gardens. Out of<br />

doors, all Petunias thrive best in full<br />

sunshine. They do not tolerate shade.<br />

Deadheading regularly prolongs the<br />

blooming period and improves the<br />

plant's vigor. Petunias will bloom all<br />

season long and resist bad weather and<br />

disease. Petunias require a well drained<br />

soil - their greatest enemy is excess<br />

moisture. Tolerant of heat and drought.<br />

Likes sunshine. The Petunia bloom creates<br />

a colorful show from a distance. The soft<br />

trumpet-shaped blooms are very large for<br />

the plant size and plants that are tended<br />

can produce a dozen blooms. The Petunia<br />

comes in many colors, sizes, and flower<br />

forms. Flowers attract hummingbirds.<br />

Petunias are two main types: doubles or<br />

singles. Doubles are heavily ruffled,<br />

many-petaled flowers resembling<br />

carnations; singles are funnel-shaped<br />

(either ruffled or smooth edged) with<br />

open throats. Both doubles and singles<br />

come as grandifloras (very large flowers)<br />

or multifloras (smaller flowers, but more<br />

of them.) Overall there are some 200<br />

varieties on the market. Petunias are a<br />

useful companion for flower and<br />

vegetable gardens. They repel Mexican<br />

bean beetles, potato bugs, squash bugs<br />

and leaf hoppers. Varieties of Petunias<br />

are used for borders, mass flower beds,<br />

edgings, and for containers of all sizes<br />

including hanging baskets. Can be used<br />

as cut flowers.Flowers are edible.<br />

M C K E N Z I E F L O W E R S<br />

Petunia Bonanza Mix 1005<strong>41</strong><br />

Multiflora Double<br />

Thick double and triple, full bloom<br />

Petunias in shades of white, pink, soft<br />

red, and soft purple. These heavy showy<br />

blooms perch on top of a thick stem. The<br />

blooms are 3"(8 cm) across. For early<br />

color sow seed indoors 6-8 weeks before<br />

transplanting out. Barely cover the seed<br />

with finely sifted soil and keep<br />

germination soil evenly moist. Because of<br />

the small seed size-mist the soil or water<br />

from the bottom when the seed is<br />

germinating.<br />

Petunia Easy Wave Blue 127491<br />

Spectacular, 6 cm (2 1/2") blue flowers<br />

cover up the vigorous, well-branched<br />

plants. Fast-growing, each plant spreads<br />

up to 90 cm (3’) making it ideal as a<br />

ground cover, in hanging baskets or<br />

planters. A superb performer with nonstop<br />

flowering through hot and cooler<br />

periods. Fast recovery after rain and<br />

excellent weather tolerance. A superior<br />

performer holds its excellent appearance<br />

all season. Easy to grow and easy to care.<br />

Petunia Easy Wave Salmon 127485<br />

An outstanding improved wave series,<br />

easy to grow and easy to care! Each fast<br />

growing plant spreads up to 90 cm (3’),<br />

smothered with striking salmon-pink<br />

colour, 6 cm (2 1/2") blooms. Excellent in<br />

hanging baskets, containers or as a<br />

ground cover either on their own or<br />

mixed with other wave petunias.<br />

Extremely vigorous plants resist heat,<br />

cold, drought and rain, creating gorgeous<br />

"waves" of color throughout the summer.<br />

Petunia Pink Wave 127497<br />

Loaded with rich, bright pink 7.5 cm (3")<br />

blooms continuously cover the plants<br />

providing a wave of colour. The<br />

spreading and cascading habit makes<br />

them ideal for hanging baskets,<br />

containers, window boxes and ground<br />

cover. Plants will spread up to 120 cm<br />

(4’). Weather tolerance and disease<br />

resistance. Easy to grow!<br />

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