Petunia

Thanks to the skill of hybridizers, modern petunias are the answer to a gardener’s dream. There is scarcely a place about the home grounds where they cannot be used effectively.

Petunia, pronounced [peh-TEWN-ya], is a genus of nearly 35 flowering plant species. It belongs to Solanaceae, the nightshade family, native to South America. The common garden petunia (petunia atkinsiana) is