As a national garden writer, I can tell the trumpet call has gone out for the long summer ahead. This is a call for petunias, summer's favorite flowers, and they are trumpet shaped, of course. This call is also one of panic as I hear it in the voices of gardeners saying, "I can't find my Bubblegums.
" This means they can't find their Supertunia Vista Bubblegum petunias. There is little doubt this is the most awarded petunia of all time. You can count them: 296 awards filling 10 pages.
Bubblegums and all of the Supertunias are among the most awarded flowers available to gardeners. By awards I'm referring to rigorous university trials in both the United States and Canada. You want to get them planted now while the temperatures are mild over much of the country and acclimation is nice and easy.
Even in the South, it is a great time to plant before triple-digit heat indexes are the norm. Planting now will give you the longest time to enjoy a Supertunia summer celebration. You want to plant now because everyone is ready for seasonal color, and shopping at the local garden center is among the stiff est competition.
Hence the panic over Bubblegums. In recent years The Garden Guy has put Supertunias through quite a trial. The trial wasn't really trying to prove anything but just satisfying a hunch after having watched Supertunias since my days as a horticulturist with Mississippi State University.
The Supertunia Vista Petunias are among the toughest petunias for the landscape and yet .
