2021 Spring Home and Garden

2021 Spring Home & Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS April 22, 2021 Page 7 If you don’t have a shady area to grow these plants, then you might wish to consider opting for a variety, developed in the past ten years or so called a SunPatiens. Garden Home Favorite: Sunpatiens | Never Fail Annual Again, these plants are great in pots or in a flower bed. While not necessarily good for putting into cut flower arrangements, in the video you might have notice that P. Allen Smith does use the blossoms as table decorations. Another good point about Impatiens and SunPatiens is that you do not have to dead- head the plants, they are self-cleaning and offer continuous all-season bloom till frost. Petunias can provide an explosion of color in the flower bed. They do take a little more work as dead-heading is important and trimming up the vine will help prevent the plants from getting “leggy” or all stem, no flower. These plants also do very well in hanging baskets or pots on the porch. How To Grow Petunias Flowers How To Care and Keep the Petunia Blooming Secrets to Growing Huge Hanging Flower Baskets full of Petunias or any other Plants