Black Petunias - yes please!

ooooo, it will be nice to see one! Hope you get them alright....:)))))

I shall order some next year so fingers crossed Michaella.

I saw the photos too - I reckon they're so unusual that people will flock to buy them - imagine them with white or cerise flowers! :-)))))))

Please would you tell me who's going to stock them, Denise? (PM.........sshhhh...it's a secret! LOL)

Sorry folks! don't really get the black flower thing.. Am I a freak of nature with a black heart!!!!?????LOL

Got my fingers crossed for you, look forward to seeing them.

thats great drc,let us know when they arrive...look forward to seeing photos.

Saw the report in the Daily Mail....can't remember who are supplying them.......not sure if I like them ......

its green flowers I don't like-- just doesn't look natural, now the black could be a good foil for exuberant colours will wait with interest--thanks Drc

I saw them too (in daily mail!) not sure if I like them, I think I would like to see them actually in flower, I agree Pam they would look stunning with all the bright colours, I am imagining them with nasturtiums, those vibrant oranges etc. :~))

I found some info. on the internet ...

Petunia Black Velvet is the truest black petunia, with a velvety sheen.

Also introduced .... Black Pinstripe and Black Phantom...

Black Phantom is a near-black flower, with a chartreuse-yellow star.

Black Pinstripe is similar to Phantom, except the star pattern consists of quite narrow white bands.

Sounds interesting. Trouble is, I don't really like ordinary petunias much, they always get leggy and sticky by mid summer. Now a black surfinia, that I'd have to have...

They sound interesting :o)

i like the sound of those ~ as you say they will be fabulous for contrasting with other colours, i was imagining pale pink and bright green looking very good with them.

black sounds great, look forward to seeing them :o))

Just seen it on the news drc. they look stunning.

dare I say it? I dont like petunias, never have and dont think I ever will. As for the black... that doesnt float my boat either.

good job we are all different :o)

can't wait....

Great for all colour blind gardeners :-)

Don't feel left out SBG....I don't like petunias either. Never have and probably never will...just like you.
Black flowers are very intriguing though. I'd be interested to see how well they do.

You're not alone you two who don't like petunias much - I rate surfinias very highly, but the rest, well they have major drawbacks.

Just a warning, and to possibly put a dampner on things!! At the nursery where i work, we tend to get in 1 or 2 new strains of something every year. However, new introductions tend not do do as well as they should do. It takes a few more years after the 'discovery' until they perform at their best. Once it was the butter yellow geranium, 2 years running it was a bad pwerformer (from a nursery point of view) and this year, not of our plug suppliers have it any more. I maybe wrong with this one, but thats how it can sometimes be..!

Oh dear. We'll just have to wait and see, won't we!

We will Spritz.

That's true Nicky. I think they are in too much of a hurry to get them on the market and don't test them well enough.

Hmm, not unlike new technology then - there's always loads of glitches in any new software produced cos they're in such a hurry

We had a new petunia in last summer. It was pink with a dark throat and lime green picotee edges...called Pretty Much Picasso! It wasn't to my tastes but it sure sold well. Everyone wanted it.

I still love them didnt see this one though Gilli.

They didn't stick around very long Drc...They were snapped up as soon as we got shipments of them.

:)