Seed Guide 2007 pgs 01/41 - McKenzie Seeds
Seed Guide 2007 pgs 01/41 - McKenzie Seeds
Seed Guide 2007 pgs 01/41 - McKenzie Seeds
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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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