Before we countdown to 2025 and look forward to a new gardening season, we asked our Pink Pot Ambassadors one more question to help us through the winter: What other plants do you plant with or near Wave Petunias? We hope their tips and advice will be part of your garden journal as you dream up your next Wave Petunias and Wave Pansy gardening adventures!
Matt: The limit does not exist! This is what is awesome about Wave Petunia, they can go with anything, in the past we have combined them with verbena, creeping jenny, sweet potato vine, umbrella grasses, and more!
Aimee: He’s right, the limit does not exist! Wave petunias are subtle enough to be a “side dish” and also bold enough to serve as the “entrée”. Sometimes we let them shine in on their own, and other times we combine them with plants like Matt noted. - @trowelanderrorgardening
I like to plant petunias and other flowering annual plants in containers alongside stunning foilage plants. The combination of Wave petunias, coleus, and dusty miller are long lasting and gorgeous! - @everydaygardeningtips
My favorite thing to pair them with is sweet potato vine. I also like verbena with petunias. - @porchsidepetals
Huge, Huge fan of Coleus. I also will mix them with Alyssum, Euphorbia, Geraniums, Sweet Potato Vines, Celosia, Canna and Angel Wing Begonia. I plant in the thriller, filler, spiller method. - @wildwestgardeneringeorgia
I have been planting petunias everywhere in my garden/containers with other flowers with great success. My latest combination were petunias with Sun Patients and they performed so well. - @our.cozy.white.home
I really love the look of a huge Wave when the plants start growing into each other when spreading, so I often just plant a bunch of Wave Petunias without any other plants, but I have included Wave Petunias as the "spiller" in my pots on our back deck (Referring to the “Thriller, Filler, Spiller” technique for pots). I do also grow other types of flowers in my garden - this past year I grew 18 flower varieties, 3 fruit plants, 5 veggie plants, and 2 herb plants. Here is the list: Flowers - Wave Petunias, 4 varieties of rose bushes, sweet peas, sunflowers, carnations, tulips, daffodils, snapdragons, zinnias, dahlias, gladiolus, linaria, stock, marigolds, scabiosa, queen annes lace, corn cockle, and babys breath. Fruit - Strawberries, raspberries, and cherry tomatoes. Veggies - Zuccinni, spinach, lettuce, onions, and carrots. Herbs - rosemary and basil. - @guimondgardens
I like to add trailing elements to my containers with my Wave Petunias, such as dichondra and creeping jenny. They cascade beautifully over the edges and create another eye-catching aspect to the container. - @sourthernhomeandfarm
In a hanging basket my go to is usually alyssum, but I'd like to maybe try lantana this year. In my larger deck pots, I do like to have a grassy center piece and then fill in with petunias and Euphorbia. - @broadwaygardener
I love planting alyssum with the Wave Petunias. I also plant them all over my garden wherever I need some rambunctious color. I plant them under roses, along pathways, in window boxes and in half wine barrels to spill. - @flowerpatchfarmhouse