FlowerPetunia
Hulahoop Series Petunia
The Hulahoop Series Petunia brings bold, graphic flair to summer gardens with stunning 3-inch flowers ringed in contrasting picotee patterns. These compact mounding uprights reach just 10-15 inches tall, making them perfect for borders, containers, and garden edges where you want maximum visual impact in a small footprint. Available in rich colors including Blue, Burgundy, Rose, Velvet, and Red (or as a mixed blend), they bloom prolifically across zones 7-11 and mature in 100-109 days. Hardy annuals that thrive in full sun, they deliver that dazzling, fun variation that gardeners crave from petunias.
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Growing Conditions
USDA Zone
7-11
Sunlight
Full Sun
Water
Moderate
Soil
Well-drained Loam, Fertile
Growth Stats
15 in
Height
TypeUpright
Spacing
14
Plant Profile
Sunlight
Full Sun
Water
Moderate
Zones
7-11
Size
15in H x ?in W
Growth
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Care
High
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Highlights
Those 3-inch picotee-lined blooms are genuinely stunning, each flower edged with a contrasting halo of color that makes them impossible to miss in the garden. The compact 10-15 inch mounding habit means you get a full, rounded plant without the sprawl, and the range of saturated colors from deep Burgundy to vibrant Red delivers serious garden drama. Seed comes pelleted for easier handling, and these hybrid plants flower reliably across a broad hardiness range.
Common Uses
These petunias are grown purely for their ornamental impact. Plant them in flower borders, container gardens, hanging baskets, or window boxes where their striking picotee blooms become focal points. Their compact, mounding form makes them excellent for edging beds or filling in spaces that need color without excessive height.
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Care Instructions
Start Indoors
Start Hulahoop petunia seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before your last spring frost date. Surface-sow seeds on moist seed-starting mix in bright conditions; petunias need light to germinate, so do not cover them with soil. Maintain temperatures around 70-75°F and keep the seed starting mix consistently moist but not waterlogged. Expect germination in 7-14 days under ideal conditions.
Transplant Outdoors
Harden off seedlings over 7-10 days by gradually exposing them to outdoor conditions before transplanting. Move them into the garden after the last frost date and when soil temperatures reach at least 60°F. Space plants 14 inches apart. Water thoroughly after transplanting to settle the soil around the roots.
Direct Sow
Direct sowing is not recommended for petunias, as seeds are tiny and difficult to handle outdoors. Indoor starting with pelleted seeds provides much better germination and establishment rates.
Pruning
Deadhead spent blooms regularly to encourage continuous flowering throughout the season. Pinch back the growing tips of young plants when they reach 4-6 inches tall to promote bushier, more mounding growth and fuller plants with more blooms. In mid to late summer, if plants become leggy or declining, a more severe pruning back by about one-third can rejuvenate them and trigger a second flush of flowers.
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Scientific Classification
Petunia x hybrida
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Petunia
Growth Habit
Upright
History & Origin
“The Hulahoop Series represents the modern petunia breeder's art, a hybrid cultivar engineered to deliver that distinctive picotee pattern and compact habit that gardeners prize. Petunias themselves have a rich breeding history spanning centuries of hybridization, but this particular series was developed to combine eye-catching graphic blooms with a mounding, upright form that works in contemporary garden designs. The pelleted seed format reflects modern seed technology, making these varieties accessible to home gardeners seeking reliability and ease.”