Varieties of petunia. How to understand their diversity?

Petunia, an amazingly beautiful flower from the genus of Tabaka, enjoys great love with gardeners. Now for breeding, numerous hybrids of this garden culture are used. All varieties of petunia are divided into several large groups, within which there are many different varieties. The division into groups is based on differences in size and external features of plants.

According to the shape of the plant can be divided into bushy and dropping, or ampel.

Bush-shaped petunias according to the size of flowers are divided into several groups:

1. Petunia Grandiflorum (grandiflora). This group is especially popular. It includes varieties of petunias with very large flowers (up to 12 cm) of the most fantastic colors. To grandiflora is not one hundred varieties and various hybrids. For example, there are such varieties as Grandiflora Neskroslaya, Superb, Big terry, etc. Large-flowered petunias are especially good in container breeding.
2. Petunia Multiflorum (multiflora) are multicolor varieties with a whole sea of not very large, but unpretentious, rain-resistant, windy and other climatic features of the middle band of flowers. The average diameter of flowers in these varieties is about 5 cm, they are smooth, simple. They are suitable for growing in hanging baskets or in a crooked form.
3. Petunia Floribunda. This is a transitional form between multiflorous and large-flowered petunias. Her flowers are larger than in many-flowered plants. Some varieties of petunias of this form have double flowers, some are simple flowers.
4. Petunia Milliflorum (small-flowered) - has flowers not larger than 2.5 cm. It is rain resistant, short (no more than 15 cm) variety.

Petunia ampelnaya differs from the bush by longer dangling, flowing stems longer than a meter. Grades of this group are planted in suspended flowerpots, in boxes on balconies or decorate them with slopes of the Alpine hill. Among them are the following groups:

1. Calibraroa - small-flowered varieties of petunias with long hanging shoots, reproducing only vegetatively.
2. Surfinia, whose flowers can reach 8 cm. Reproduction is also vegetative.
3. Petunias are cascading, or supertunias. They can be propagated with seeds, and vegetatively. All three varieties are characterized by a special decorativeness.
4. Among the ampelian petunia, there are also half-ampelones, with less long stems.

The most recent varieties of petunias are characterized by unusual colors. For example, in England in 2011 a variety with black petals was bred. This is the first such plant among petunias. The name of the variety is Black Velvet.

Among the new floribundas, the abundantly blooming Petunia F1 Niagara Falls, with its beautiful appearance, large, up to 7 cm, satin flowers of various colors, amicable blossom and unpretentiousness.

Among the new large-flowered varieties of petunias, the F1 F1 Strausovo feather is good, with extraordinarily large globular flowers with a serrated margin. When grown on a flower bed plant of this variety is able to create a flowering carpet with a diameter of one and a half square meters. This hybrid is perfect for growing in pots, balconies and baskets.

It is difficult to identify the best varieties of petunias, because each is good in its own way, and they are all very beautiful. So, among ampelnye petunias, such not new varieties as the Lilac surf, the amazing Pearl surf, the Waterfall have proved themselves well. Among the calibrahoes, Calibraro Million is singled out, creating whole waterfalls of small, but beautiful colors.

When buying petunias for breeding, it is necessary to pay attention to the shape of the bush. It depends on this, for which landing is better to use them. When multiplying by seeds, we must take only the seeds of hybrids F1. If you want to get plants of the same appearance for the next year, use the vegetative, propagation method of these flowers.