How to Create Beautiful Flower Borders with Proven Winners Supertunia, Salvia, and the Wave Petunia

Follow along as we start a competition between the Proven Winners Supertunia and The Wave petunia for summer color and a summer annual flower bed border! Our summers get pretty hot in north texas and I would like to see their performance side by side! I think when the supertunia puckers out from the 100+ temperatures, the wave will take over...hopefully! We will also be planting up a beautiful salvia with a generic plant tag. I think that's my biggest pet peeve! Anyways, thank y'all for joining me and I appreciate you watching and supporting my channel! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and turn notifications on so you can follow along! Happy Gardening YT Friends ~ Dawn
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[@shadedfromreality]

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[@TexasBluebonnetHomestead]

The At Last Rose is so pretty! The Supertunias will be beautiful in bloom.

[@shadedfromreality]

Thank you!!😊

[@devinban]

That is a nice salvia. I hate generic tags too!

[@shadedfromreality]

I know, right?!

[@jennetteojeda138]

💖👍🏻💖

[@WhispersInTheGarden]

Wow, that compost looks very rich! Give us updates when the annuals fill in.

[@shadedfromreality]

You bet!

[@jenniferhannah4424]

I love begonias and dianthus! They're staples in my garden. I struggle with slugs so it's hard to keep petunias in the ground. They seem to find a way around the deterrents. However, I keep trying because I love them. I mixed Supertunias and Calibrachoa in a pot. The Calibrachoas do very well for me in zone 8b, Georgia so when the Tunias give out, they take over. Wave Petunias are in the ground in front of my roses so here's hoping they'll last.

[@shadedfromreality]

Those pesky pests! I love calibrachoas as well! They tend to die off when it heats up here! Thank you for joining me all the way from Georgia!

[@shadedfromreality]

Jennifer @jenniferhannah4424 I've been thinking about your petunia situation. Are you sure that it is slugs? Could it be Caterpillars and that's why they are making it around the deterrents? Caterpillars are the normal pests for petunias. You would have to spray them with BT to kill them. Just wanted to throw this out there just in case...

[@jenniferhannah4424]

@@shadedfromreality I never thought about that possibility. I'll have to look at it more closely. I have tons of slugs and they'll devour plants so I automatically assumed they were the culprit. Thanks so much for the suggestion.

[@GrowRoots23]

I LOVE that you are doing a competition between the Wave Petunias and Supertunias! I have not tried the Wave Petunias but I know what you mean about the supertunias fizzling out when it gets really super hot here. AND I feel the same way about begonias! I absolutely love pink begonias with the green leaves, not the dark leaves. I don't know why. Where did you find your begonias? I cannot find them anywhere yet. Thankfully I overwintered about 5 of them, but I need more!

[@shadedfromreality]

Thank you Shannon! I love my supertunias so much, but yes'm...I thought it would be interesting to have them side by side! I found them at Green Acres a few weekends back...they were only $17.50/flat and they had a lot of them and every color. Love that place!!

[@GrowRoots23]

@@shadedfromreality oh yes, gotta make another trip to Green Acres! Thanks!

[@shadedfromreality]

@@GrowRoots23 Sorry you have to go again😂🤣!

[@Zannyskies]

Beautiful flowers 😍 New subscriber here ❤❤

[@shadedfromreality]

Hello @zannyskies! Thank you so much!

[@lindylou3519]

Love that salvia! I had tried the Wave petunias for a few years but found they just didn’t last long so as of last year I started trying out the PW Pink Bubblegum petunias but by July/August they, too started looking scraggly even after a trim. However I have to say for me they did last longer than the Wave petunias. Anyway, I bought some more PW Pink Bubblegum for this year to give another chance & see whether or not I think they are worth it. I may just give up on all petunias. 😂 I’m really enjoying your channel. ❤

[@shadedfromreality]

Thank you so much! Even though they are more trouble than the rest, I love petunias... so I just tend to stick with them, despite the extra headaches! I hope yours perform better for you this year!

[@lindylou3519]

@@shadedfromrealitywell I just went to Lowe’s today for 3 bags of rock & of course walked over to the clearance section & to my surprise they had several trays of very healthy, young PW purple petunias & some purple verbena. I was like “whoa! I need a cart.” But I just grabbed a tray of 10 of the petunias & 2 of the verbena because after all I have no clue right now where they are going to go…but I’ll figure out something. 😊