How to Use petunia in a Sentence

petunia

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• Heck, there are even glow-in-the-dark petunias out there ...
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Apr. 2024
• If your petunias are in the shade, that might be your problem for the lack of blooming.
  — oregonlive.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• Don't expect to add cannabis next to the petunias in your garden.
  — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2019
• Night sky petunias can grow up to 16 inches, and bloom during the spring and summer months.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 12 June 2019
• Pink Sky Petunia 'Pink Sky' petunia has hot pink blooms.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2023
• By the first warm days of spring, my stoop is awash with planters brimming with begonias, marigolds and petunias.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• Some thoughtful neighbor has kept the front lawn trimmed in ruler-straight swaths, and the petunias clustered around the stoop still bloom brightly.
  — Steve Trumpeter, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
• Be sure to include some fragrant plants such as a fragrant rose, Four o’clocks, mignonette or petunias.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 21 Mar. 2018
• Placing one petunia in the middle and three around the sides gives a quicker full basket of foliage and blooms but at much greater cost.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2021
• Pests and Problems Night Sky petunia plants can be bothered by aphids, whiteflies, and slugs.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2023
• Each week, Gertrude packed two-pound bags of shrimp to sell at the farmers’ market, along with petunias and gardenias from her yard.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 July 2019
• Certain plants such as peppers, eggplants and petunias need warmth as well as light.
  — Colleen Smith, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• Probably the all-time, go-to flower for cool-season color is the petunia.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2020
• This vigorous petunia works as both a filler and spiller in containers, with stems that can trail up to 30 inches by the end of the season.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2022
• Out with petunias and impatiens and in with pansies and cabbages.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• Petunias do not tolerate the intense heat of summers this far south.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 June 2017
• How deep would edging have to be to stop Mexican petunia from spreading?
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• Rabbits love to munch on everything from broccoli and beans to pansies and petunias.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 23 June 2023
• Seventy dangling baskets filled with petunias in downtown Tavares add to the city’s small-town charm.
  — Jason Ruiter, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
• Some of these flowering plants include bee balms, columbine flowers, daylilies, lupines and petunias.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 10 Apr. 2023
• This new petunia, in the Vista Series, is a vibrant fuchsia/purple, Butson said.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2022
• Maybe some may even study genetics because of these petunias.
  — Dr. Matthew Lisy, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2024
• If summer-like conditions linger a bit longer, both pansies and petunias grow lanky and give poor displays.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• The cold will kill petunias, begonias, and zinnias, and warm season crops such as cucumbers and squash.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2023
• That’s a problem for plants like petunias, which are sensitive to waterlogged soil, Ruether said.
  — Roxie Hammill, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Nisbet designed the black petunia pendant in the foyer, where Weinrib’s graphic zigzag rug covers the floor.
  — Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 7 Sep. 2017
• By now, that 10-inch hanging basket of petunias is looking pretty bad.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
• But that didn't stop hundreds of people from lining up to get their share of petunias, marigolds and other varieties to plant this season.
  — Sue Ellen Ross, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
• Last month, the agency gave the go-ahead to a glow-in-the-dark petunia that contains genes from bioluminescent mushrooms and will go to market next year.
  — WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• Snapdragon, alyssum, calendulas, stock, petunias and roses out in the open all had their blooms frozen.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024