SuperCal® Premium French Vanilla Petchoa is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor containers and hanging baskets. It can be propagated by cuttings however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 16 inches apart. SuperCal® Premium French Vanilla Petchoa will grow to be about 22 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 32 inches. SuperCal® Premium French Vanilla Petchoa is recommended for the following landscape applications It has no significant negative characteristics. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. Trim off the flower heads after they fade and die to encourage more blooms late into the season. This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition. SuperCal® Premium French Vanilla Petchoa is a dense herbaceous annual with a trailing habit of growth, eventually spilling over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. Its pointy leaves remain green in color throughout the season. SuperCal® Premium French Vanilla Petchoa is blanketed in stunning creamy white trumpet-shaped flowers with gold centers at the ends of the stems from mid spring to late summer. This collection has been reduced in range and price as SuperCal Petchoa 'Lavender Star' has sold out.An exceptional series known for large vibrant creamy white flowers and excellent performance vigorous, early blooming, and able to handle summer heat excellent resistance to powdery mildew SuperCal Petchoa Collection Valued at $87.00, SAVE $4.50. Includes SuperCal ‘Artist Rose’, SuperCal ‘Premium Caramel Yellow’, SuperCal ‘Premium French Vanilla’, SuperCal ‘Lavender Star’, SuperCal ‘Bordeaux’ and SuperCal ‘Sunray Pink’. SuperCal Petchoa Collection, one of each variety separately labelled. They remain evergreen perennials throughout most of Australia but in areas of hard frost should be treated as annuals. You can enjoy a continuous procession of flowers from spring to frost without a lot of effort. They have a strong root system so will cope well in stressful situations. SuperCal Petchoas even have superior mildew resistance. Prune back as flowering starts to wane in winter and await their reshoot in early spring, you will have years of love from these plants.Īs you can imagine it is a difficult breeding program to merge two plants and to do it so successfully is a testament to the advancement of the nursery industry. You will need more water in pots to keep them happy and healthy as potting mix is perfectly drained. Water to establish and then keep moist in active growth. You can add a liquid fertiliser every other week to keep them blooming at their best, or use a slow release fertiliser spring and summer – remember they flower a lot so need a good supply of nutrients. Grow your SuperCal Petchoas in a sunny spot with well drained soil. They are frost tolerant and don’t mind the heat - in fact they are more tolerant than either Petunias or Calibrachoas. SuperCal Petchoas will soon be one of your favourite plants. Plus, the plants are self cleaning, so you don’t have the hassle of sticky flowers as you do with Petunias. The blooms open across three seasons and are fantastic no matter the weather the flowers remaining open, even after rainfall. You get the big flowers and easy growing nature of the Petunias and the colour, trailing habit and flower power of the Calibrachoa. SuperCal Petchoas are a hybrid of Petunias and Calibrachoas and give you the best of both worlds. The plants have a naturally rounded, well branched habit so there is no need to pinch out the foliage. In pots, choose ones that are around 30-40cm so that the foliage can spill from the sides. In the garden, place them around 40cm apart. SuperCal Petchoas are so wonderfully versatile, they have a semi trailing to trailing habit and can be grown in gardens, containers, window boxes, hanging baskets, as ground covers, garden edging or filler plants in your borders.
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