New Supertunia From Proven Winners
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I’ve become a big fan of the supertunias from Proven Winners in the last couple of years.
They bloom their heads off all summer and don’t need to be deadheaded or pruned. They thrive in the heat and they’re quite happy in all this rain and cool weather we’ve been having, unlike my coleus and pansies.
This spring, Proven Winners introduced a new white-flowered variety called Supertunia Vista Silverberry.
It joins Vista Bubblegum and Vista Fuchsia, which were brought out in 2007.
“If you are gardening on a dime this year, these selections are the way to go,” says Danielle Ernest, public relations and brand development coordinator for Proven Winners in Issaquah, Wash. “They cover over 2 feet of garden in a matter of weeks and perform wonderfully on a low amount of water. They look phenomenal mixed together in a container.”
These hybrid petunias have won top honors at university trials across the country. Like other petunias, they like full sun and fertilizer every two to three weeks if they’re in a container.
With its pale flowers with reddish-pink throats, Silverberry looks particularly good in the evening hours. Its soft mounding habit make it ideal for patio containers or windowboxes.
For mail-order sources, Ernest recommends gardencrossings.com or whiteflowerfarm.com. For local retailers, go to provenwinners.com/findaretailer.
Here’s mine, just a couple of weeks after planting:
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
