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MEET THE 2024 ANNUAL OF THE YEAR™ – SUPERTUNIA VISTA® JAZZBERRY® PETUNIA

Top 3 reasons to grow Supertunia Vista® Jazzberry® Petunia

Non-stop color from spring to frost
No need to spend your summer picking off spent blooms. This petunia cleans up after itself and keeps right on going all season.

Incredibly vigorous growth
You will be amazed how quick and massive it’ll grow with a little sunshine and nutrients.

Bragging rights
Save the name of this beauty, because your friends and neighbors will be asking you for it!

Contributors: Susan Martin

Invigorate your landscape and jazz up your containers with this electric magenta purple petunia that blooms non-stop all season. It grows like gangbusters, spreading up to three feet across, so you won’t need many to make a powerful impact. Paired with its pink sister, Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum®, you’ll have the prettiest house on the block!

 

CUE THE APPLAUSE!

  • Masses of electric magenta purple flowers
  • Non-stop bloom from spring to frost
  • Self-cleaning—no need to remove the spent flowers
  • Versatile in large containers and landscapes
  • One of the most vigorous petunias you can grow
  • Thrives in both warm and cool weather
  • Blooms best in 6+ hours of sun
  • Pronounced “pe-TOON-yuh”

From show-stopping containers to sun-drenched borders begging for blankets of blooms, Supertunia Vista® Jazzberry® petunia delivers in a big way. You may already have met its pink-flowered sister, Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum®. You’ll be happy to know that you can expect the same outstanding garden performance from this new award winner, but in a vivid shade of electric magenta purple.

This petunia’s flowers are so prolific that they completely bury the foliage. And since the plants don’t produce seeds, they bloom non-stop from spring to frost without having to spend your summer picking off the spent blossoms. Couple that with good heat tolerance and an overall low-maintenance vibe and you have a plant capable of captivating an audience.

 

 

  USES  

HANGING BASKETS

Supertunia Vista® Jazzberry® is incredibly impressive in hanging baskets. Because it is extremely vigorous, we recommend planting it only with other strong growing flowers such as other Supertunia Vista petunias, Sweet Caroline sweet potato vines, ColorBlaze® Drop coleus varieties or Snow Princess® sweet alyssum. When planted with slower growing varieties, it can quickly take over the container.

It’s easy to see why Vista View is one of our most popular hanging basket recipes. It combines three colors of Supertunia Vista petunias including Jazzberry®, Bubblegum® and Snowdrift™. Use as large of a hanging basket as you can find when you plant these exceptionally strong growing petunias and set it in a spot that receives at least six hours of sun (preferably in the afternoon) to get this look.

UPRIGHT CONTAINERS

Supertunia Vista® Jazzberry® is a very popular flower to use in upright containers. Because its stems will easily grow three feet long, it needs to be lifted off the ground sufficiently. Use a taller urn or plan to set your upright container on a pedestal or plant stand.

Because it is extremely vigorous, we recommend planting this petunia only with other strong growing flowers such as other Supertunia Vista petunias, Sweet Caroline sweet potato vines, ColorBlaze® coleus or Superbena® verbena. When planted with slower growing varieties, it can quickly take over the container.

 

 

 GARDEN BEDS

You might think of petunias only as plants for containers, but Supertunia Vista petunias were designed to be rock stars in the landscape. Their extraordinary vigor makes them the ideal flowers to quickly cover any empty, sunny space in the garden. Supertunia Vista® Jazzberry® forms a wall-to-wall carpet of electric magenta purple blooms that start early in spring and last until frost.

Three foot long, flower-coated stems knit together into a massive, spreading mound that smothers weeds in their path. You won’t need many to make a huge visual impact. See how they make the edges of these garden beds glow? Now that’s awesome curb appeal!

 

  PLANTING  

 

PLANTING YOUR HANGING BASKET OR UPRIGHT CONTAINER

  • You’ll need a total of three 4-inch containers to fill one 16” hanging basket. You could plant a single basket of all Supertunia Vista Jazzberry petunias or plant a mixed basket using one or two vigorous companions.
  • Space the plants equally in a triangular pattern in the basket so it fills out on all sides.
  • Use a good quality potting soil in your hanging basket. Better potting soils are light in texture and weight, and water drains easily through them.
  • Mix a bit of slow release plant food into the potting soil before you add the plants. Follow the package instructions to know how much to use. This will ensure a small amount of food is available to the plants’ roots over the season.
  • Water your newly planted hanging basket immediately to help the soil settle in around the plants’ roots.
  • Hang it up in a sunny spot from a sturdy hook, pole or post. Remember, your hanging basket will get heavier as the plants grow larger through the season.

PLANTING YOUR GARDEN BED

  • We recommend 18-32” spacing between Supertunia Vista Jazzberry plants in the ground. That means you’ll need two plants for every three to five feet of ground you have to cover. If you want to achieve a thicker blanket of color faster, perhaps because you live where the growing season is relatively short, use the closer spacing recommendation.
  • Space the plants equally in the ground so they fill out evenly with no bare spots in between.
  • Amend your soil with a good quality garden soil, compost, or humus/manure mix. The soil should be well-drained, meaning water drains easily through it without pooling.
  • Mix a bit of slow release plant food into the soil before you add the plants. Follow the package instructions to know how much to use. This will ensure a small amount of food is available to the plants’ roots over the season.
  • Water your newly planted petunias immediately to help the soil settle in around the plants’ roots.

 

 

  CARE  


SUNLIGHT
 
  • Supertunia Vista Jazzberry grows best in full sun, but will still bloom if it receives light shade, especially in warm climates.
  • If you are feeding and watering your plants well but they aren’t full of blooms, move the container to a sunnier spot. If that is not the problem, you may have the dreaded petunia budworm. Read more about that here.

WATER
 
  • Plants growing in heavier upright containers and in the ground tend to dry out more slowly than plants in hanging baskets. That means they may not need to be watered quite as often as your hanging baskets.
  • Never let your container dry out to the point where the plants wilt. That may mean it needs to be watered anywhere from every other day to more than once per day, especially as the summer’s heat sets in, depending on your growing conditions.
  • To figure out if it is time to water, stick your finger down in the soil up to your second knuckle. If the soil sticks to your finger, it is moist enough to make it through the day without watering. If not, it’s time to water.
  • Never let your containers dry out to the point where the plants wilt. That may mean they need to be watered anywhere from every other day to more than once per day, especially as the summer’s heat sets in, depending on your growing conditions.
  • If you don’t have much time to water or if you tend to travel in the summertime, consider investing in a WaterWise® Self-Watering Kit. It saves time and water, is simple to use, and waters up to ten containers at once from a single faucet. Or even easier, use self-watering AquaPots® and you’ll only have to water once a week.
 

PLANT FOOD

  • Every third time you water your container, include a bit of water soluble plant food in the water. Follow the package instructions to know how much to use.
  • What does every third time mean? If you water every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, then you’ll feed your plants every Friday. If you water your plants more than once a day, every third time you get out the watering can, add some water soluble plant food to the water. During the heat of summer when you are watering more often, your plants are growing faster and need more food to keep up. Feeding flowers is like feeding kids—not so much when they are toddlers but they’ll eat you out of house and home when they are teenagers.
  • Any brand of plant food meant for flowers will work for your hanging baskets. But we recommend Proven Winners water soluble and continuous release plant foods because they are specially formulated with micronutrients to help our varieties grow bigger, stronger, and bear more flowers.
 

TRIMMING

  • One of the biggest advantages of Supertunia Vista Jazzberry is that, unlike many other petunias, it will naturally bloom all season without the need to remove the spent flowers. A more technical term you may have seen for this is “no deadheading required”.
  • By midsummer, your container should be nice and full, and the flowers should be starting to trail below the bottom of the pot. To extend the life of your container into fall, this is the time to trim the plants back. Giving them a “haircut”, taking care not to remove more than 20% of the plant, will make them bounce back with renewed vigor and you’ll have a fuller container as a result.
  • It is perfectly OK to trim your plants back once per month between midsummer and fall. You know how good it feels to get a haircut? Plants love that feeling too, and they respond by growing new branches filled with flowers.

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