Add a dash of colors with different Types of Petunias and decorate the borders or containers of your garden with these pretty flowers!
Coming in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, petunias are the best way to fill your garden with splashes of mesmerizing colors. Many petunias that gardeners are growing these days are a hybrid variety with distinct features of heat tolerance, mounding, and low growing characteristics. Continue reading to learn more about the best Types of Petunias!
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Different Types of Petunias
Depending on the flowers and the growth characteristics, the petunia flowers are divided into 4 main categories.
Grandiflora
This category comprises of large or double wavy flowers that can be up to five inches (12 cm) wide. The plant can grow up to a foot (30 cm) high. Grandiflora variety is less hardy and can be affected by heat and rain. It is available in a range of colors.
1. Dreams Pink
Size: 10-15 inches
‘Dreams Pink’ has a mounding growth habit and thrives in the sun. The large deep pink flowers have dark pink veins and white centers.
2. Daddy
Size: 10-16 inches
This variety produces beautiful flowers in bright red, lilac, pink, and rose colors with deep veins on each petal. It prefers plenty of sunlight and flowers from spring to summer.
3. Supercascade
Size: 4-6 inches
This sun-loving variety has an upright growth pattern. It flowers from late spring through the summer and available in bright-red, rose-pink, lavender, and a variegated form with deep-purple markings.
4. Ultra
Size: 6-8 inches
If there’s ever a contest for the most alluring flower, this will win it hands down! The flowers have distinctive white markings on the contrasting red, purple, blue, and pink colors.
5. Storm
Size: 8-10 inches
It does well in all kinds of weather and also comes in a bright shade of purple. The show-stealer are the big flowers!
6. Alladin
Adorned with beautiful ruffles, the Alladin stands out with its blooms. Growing up to only 15 inches, the variety is perfect in hanging baskets.
7. Amore
Amore or Queen of Hearts is a gorgeous variety that comes in a very vivid raspberry pink, purple, and cadmium red. It is one of the best Types of Petunias you can grow!
8. Bingo Perfectunia
A latent creeper and small in size, the Petunia bingo is great when kept in baskets or hanging planters. It comes in solid neon red, pink, purple, blue, orange, peach, and rose hues.
9. Bravo
This beautiful variety of Petunia comes in deep hues of purple, lavender, and blue. Best kept as edge plants, it grows upto 10-12 inches with extremely photogenic flowers.
10. Lambada
Growing in a compact manner Lambada grows beautiful flowers all season long. The plant looks great in borders and blooms in colors like salmon, burgundy, and pink.
11. Merlin
A common Petunia variety, the Merlin grows with white trims around the petals. Growing up to 14-20 inches high, it has a dense plumage and makes for an excellent garden bed fringe.
12. Sanguna
These flowers bloom early and offer bundles of color all summer long. Their colors include various shades of blue, as well as burgundy, and white.
Multiflora
Multiflora produces small and compact flowers compared to the Grandiflora variety. It comes in various shapes and sizes and grows about half the size of the Grandiflora flowers. The flowers of this variety are more tolerant of different weather conditions.
13. Southern Star
Originated in Mexico, this Petunia is decorated with frayed edges on the petals and comes in colors such as lilac, white, and soft pink.
14. Primetime
Size: 6-8 inches
This easy-to-grow petunia variety is perfect for groundcovers and containers. The beautiful flowers have velvety hardy petals and are available in deep rose and lavender colors.
15. Celebrity
Size: 8-12 inches
The bright flowers of this petunia from the ‘Multiflora series’ are ideal for hot and humid conditions. It is available in a range of colors that includes pink, salmon, red, raspberry, yellow, cobalt blue, lilac, and variegated mixed colors.
16. Carpet
Size: 5-7 inches
This hardy, low-growing velvety furled petunia is ideal for containers and groundcover. It flowers in rose, pink, sky blue, white, lilac, and bright red colors
17. Horizon
Size: 12-16 inches
The beautiful, funnel-shaped flowers of this variety are available in blue, red, coral, pink, and raspberry shades. Most of the flowers are variegated and features more than one color on each petal.
18. Mirage
Size: 10-14 inches
‘Mirage’ is an upright, mounded petunia variety, with robust and vigorous growth. It comes in red, creamy-yellow, lavender, white, soft pink, white, coral colors and many variegated types.
19. Success
This petunia produces a very dense plumage all summer long and comes in colors such as purples, shades of pink, and coral.
Milliflora
This variety came quite late than the previous two. The flowers are quite small of 1-1 and a half-inch (2.5-4 cm) wide only. This early flowering low-maintenance variety is ideal for hanging baskets and containers.
20. Picobella
Size: 2-4 inches
The miniature flowers of this petunia come in an eye-catching shade of red, white, purple, white, and deep blue. Its compact size makes it ideal for small borders and beds.
21. Fantasy
Size: 2-3 inches
Its small size and easy to grow nature makes it perfect for newbie gardeners. If you have always wanted a perfect flowering plant for your patio containers or borders, this is it!
Wave or Spreading
This new addition in petunia family features 2 inches (5 cm) flowers across. The plant can spread up to 2-4 feet by the end of the season. You can use this series in containers and as a ground cover, both. These types of petunias can tolerate heat and drought very well.
22. Easy Wave Yellow
Size: 6-12 inches
This wave series petunia grows higher than most wave varieties. The beautiful white flowers have deep yellow veins and throat.
23. Shock Wave
Size: 10-12 inches
‘Shock Wave’ petunia flowers from late spring to summer in a range of colors from rose, pink. Purple, coral, raspberry, and white. This petunia is ideal for containers and small space gardens.
24. Avalanche
Size: 8-10 inches
This wave series cultivar comes in a range of color that includes pink, white, violet, and lavender. You can pair it with other plants in the same garden.
25. Purple Wave
Size: 4-6 inches
The spreading growth habit makes this plant ideal for borders of flower beds or ground covers. You can plant this variety in hanging baskets as it drapes over the sides beautifully.
26. Blanket
Vivid and bright, these petunias grow upto a foot tall and 1-3 feet wide. It comes in stunning colors – purple, pink, and peach.
Other Popular Hybrid Types of Petunias
27. Purple Vein Ray
Size: 6-10 inches
This beautiful petunia variety has a large purple flower with dark purple veins. The plant can withstand the hottest days of summer.
28. Kandy Kane
Size: 10-12 inches
This beautiful variety comes with red and white stripes. It can do well in full sun and shade. Grow this versatile plant in flower beds, hanging baskets, and pots.
29. Classic White
Size: 10-15 inches
This elegant variety exhibits 2-3 inches wide white flowers with deep veins and yellow centers. It has a mounding growth habit.
30. Debonair Dusty Rose
Size: 10-12 inches
It features beautiful flowers with pale pink edges and white surroundings. The plant has an upright, mounding growth habit that makes it perfect for containers and small gardens.
31. The Tiger Petunia
Size: 10-12 inches
Just like the name, the flowers are patterned in red-yellow and orange stripes resembling the skin of a tiger. This hardy plant has a strong growth habit.
32. Cascadia Rim
Size: 12-16 inches
This beautiful hybrid petunia comes in a range of colors that includes yellow, magenta, lime-green, cherry-red, bright pink, purple, and orange. The bright flowers have white rims and are disease-resistant.
33. Red Petunia
Size: 12-16 inches
The red petunias are available in a range of sizes and shapes, from trailing to bushy. The fragrant flowers will be the center of attraction for hummingbirds and bees in your garden.
34. Black Velvet Petunia
Size: 8-12 inches
This velvety shimmering black petunia has a deep purple that looks black at first glance. It took four years of hard work to develop this stunning variety.
35. Night Skies
Size: 12-16 inches
This unique and dramatic flower looks like the sky at night hence the name. The beautiful blue surface of the flower has pure white blotches.
36. ColourWorks
With a semi-trailing habit, the ColorWorks usually come in tones such as pink with dark-pink centers, pink with white centers, and blue with white centers.
37. Dekko
With a luscious spreading habit, the Dekko looks great in a classic planter and hanging baskets alike. It comes in a vast number of colors, including blue, dark lavender, and indigo.
38. Double Madness
With a dense look, the Double Madness and its double blooms come in colors such as blue, rose, peppermint red, burgundy, wine, salmon, white, and many others!
39. Glow
It gets its name for the vivid colors that have never been seen before in vegetative trailing petunias. Bright purples and bright pinks are common among this variety.
40. Potunia
The Potunia has trumpet-shaped petals that grow upright and attract hummingbirds easily. It comes in beautiful shades of indigo, lavender, amber, neon raspberry, and dark-red.
