Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 3 AugustEasy Wave Berry Velour petunias on 6 August, thirty funnels open and crimped at the rim, magenta-crimson darkening along every radiating vein to an almost black throat, and a dozen spent ones rolled back into limp mauve tubes among them.Week of 17 AugustA long low trough spilling over with trumpet-shaped flowers, each deep purple at the mouth and shading to pale lilac and white at the throat, above small bright green leaves. The trough stands on mown grass against a tree trunk.Week of 31 AugustEasy Wave Berry Velour petunias on 2 September, five funnels open at once in deep magenta-crimson with wavy ruffled rims and dark veins running in to a small pale throat, and below them the spent ones hanging shriveled and purple-pink.Week of 7 SeptemberA dozen funnel-shaped flowers face out of a hanging basket on 7 September, each deep magenta-crimson with darker veins radiating from a near-black throat — and between them the spent ones hang on, collapsed into papery lavender-gray twists, all of it wet.Week of 7 SeptemberOne trough carries two quite different flowers on 7 September: at the left a big double rosette of frilled magenta-purple petals streaked pale pink, at the right half a dozen in a near-black violet, all but one collapsed with their tubes twisted shut.
