Petunia Opera Supreme Lilac Ice
The trailing habit makes this Petunia perfect for flowerpots, baskets, and windowboxes.
A magnificent trailing Petunia just right for your hanging baskets, windowboxes, and tall flowerpots, this award-winner boasts beautiful 2-inch blooms of lilac and silvery-white with a dark center. Each is lovely in its own right, but a fully blooming plant is breathtaking!Opera Supreme Lilac Ice is a very free-flowering, vigorous plant reaching just 4 to 6 inches high but trailing 2 to 3 feet long. Bred just for baskets and other "vertical" settings, it also scrambles along the garden bed beautifully, self-cleaning its spent blooms so you never need to deadhead! And the flowering stems remain neat, so this plant needs no trimming to keep flowering and looking its best all summer.
If you love the ease and beauty of the Wave Petunias, you will love the extra color and beauty -- plus the same carefree trailing habit -- of Opera Supreme Lilac Ice! Give its AAS-winning cousin Pink Morn a try too -- the two combine beautifully. Pkt is 10 pelleted seeds.
| Genus | Petunia |
| Species | grandiflora |
| Variety | Opera Supreme Lilac Ice |
| Bloom Season | Early Summer - Late Summer |
| Habit | Weeping |
| Plant Height | 4 in - 6 in |
| Plant Width | 24 in - 3 ft |
| Bloom Size | 2 in |
| Item Form | Seeds |
| Additional Characteristics | Easy Care Plants, Flower, Free Bloomer, Long Bloomers, Repeat Bloomer |
| Bloom Color | Multi-Color, Purple, Silver, White |
| Bloom Season | Summer |
| Light Requirements | Full Sun |
| Moisture Requirements | Moist, well-drained |
| Soil Tolerance | Normal, loamy |
| Uses | Baskets, Beds, Containers, Ground Cover |
Bareroot roses are an inexpensive and easy option for early-season planting. In fact, late winter is the best time to plant. Bareroot roses are two-year, fully established plants that meet the highest industry standards. They arrive dormant, which makes them ideal for planting. The roots get to acclimate to native soil, as opposed to the packaged soil. And of course, since they aren’t in soil when you get them, there’s no mess to contend with.
Bareroot roses may look dead, with their brown roots and dormant stem, but plants that arrive this way actually have the advantage of being able to focus their energies on strong root development rather than having to support an extensive growth of leaves during planting, which is very stressful.
You can plant your bareroot roses earlier in the growing season as well, since there aren’t any leaves to get nipped back by frost. They can typically be planted as early as six weeks before your area’s last frost date in the spring and no later than two weeks after that average date. Since they don’t have to provide water to leaves or flowers, they usually establish faster than those that arrive in containers.
Container roses should typically be planted in late spring. They’re easy to plant (all you need is a trowel), and they provide instant gratification, as they aren’t dormant and will have buds within a few short weeks, if they don’t when they arrive. They’re also perfect for transplanting into decorative containers and make an attractive gift.
Container roses are usually nicely leafed out, and may even have flowers on them, which is a great way for you to know when you purchase them what they’re going to look and smell like. The downside of this is that the plants have to focus some of their energy on sustaining the blooms, rather than being able to focus it all on root development.
As you can see, there are advantages and disadvantages to both bareroot or container roses, but whichever you decide is the best for your garden, we feel certain you’ll become a lifelong rose lover, if you aren’t already!
