As I was proposing changes to Supertunia Pretty Much Picasso, there was only one choice allowed for life cycle. Although I left it as "Annual", it's not a true annual, rather a tender perennial grown as an annual in cold zones. Proven Winners lists it as 10A hardy, and as petunias are a winter grower in zone 9 I suspect it could be easily overwintered in Zones 9-11.

How would one show that? Should I have listed it as a perennial, zones 9-11 with Use: Can be used as Annual. Or would that confuse people who think Petunias are true annuals? Or is there a possibility for an "Other" Life Cycle category?

Sorry to keep asking all these questions

Monica

krancmm said:How would one show that? Should I have listed it as a perennial, zones 9-11 with Use: Can be used as Annual.

Hi Monica,
I've used this quite a bit for tropicals which are suitable as an annual up north.

Me, too.

Karen

Questions are good Monica. I just learned something new from reading your question.
Keep asking them. : )

Thanks - will follow Karen and Evan's suggestion. Boy, will there be a lot of suprised people when they discover that Capsicum annuum isn't.

Lynn, I really do have some answers, but they never seem to match the questions I have

Monica

Hey, I know petunias aren't really "annuals." I had a pot of petunias on my back porch that lived (and totally took over one window) for not quite 4 years!

Wow.

Yup. Have a pic, too. It was a real pain getting all the dead foliage out of those mini blinds, too. They finally died out sometime early spring of the 4th year. They were just leftovers from some of Wal-Mart's finest $1.25 pony packs.

Wow, I will have to give that a try this winter. Do you have pest problems with them indoors?

Well, if you have a problem with aphids, yes. At least I think it was aphids...things got a bit sticky. Oddly enough, tho, it wasn't much of a problem with these guys. I mean, they didn't seem bothered much. And I kept a Pirouette Red going for 2 years without doing much to encourage it. So yeah, life cycles are kind of interesting. And variable.