ATTENTION: THE PLANTS WILL BE SENT FROM MARCH 15 ABOUT AS SOON AS THE TEMPERATURES ARE SUSTAINABLE FOR THE PLANTS

Surfinia is a plant very luxuriant with vigorous growth and from very abundant flowering, for this is the plant ideal for pots and planters, it is used extensively to embellish windowsills, balconies and terraces.

It is an ornamental herbaceous plant very decorative and easy to grow with drooping stems, it develops into large branched bushes, the light green leaves are covered with very thin hair, they are sticky and give off a characteristic scent. Surfinia is a petunia pendula and belongs to the genus of the Solanaceae family. Her flowering is always abundant and goes from spring to autumn; there are numerous hybrids and cultivars on the market, even with double flowers or with jagged or wrinkled-looking corollas.

CARE

Choose a place for the Surfinie to take at least 6 hours of sunshine per day, they will become luxuriant and their flowering will be bubbly. No.do not love the shadow but unlike petunia it manages to bloom even if there is no direct exposure to the sun's rays. Water it regularly in the vegetative phase but without excesses while you significantly reduce in the remaining periods. Do not wet the leaves and flowers so as not to favor rot always wets the earth around the stems. This plant does not like drafts and low temperatures, to support its growth and flowering fertilize it throughout the vegetative period at least once a week with liquid fertilizer for flowering plants. Prune the Surfinia in late July by cutting it in half length so as not to damage the plant but to favor new stems and new flowers. Constantly eliminates dry parts.

CURIUOSITY

Surfinia would actually be a perennial plant but in our latitudes it is grown as an annual plant. In its natural environment it could live several years without problems while here it grows well in late spring, in summer and in general when night temperatures are above 18 ° C.