Waves: aggressive groundcover or trailer. Not much mounding habit. Up to 4' across. Easy Waves: Mounding Habit. Gets about 10" high and mounds 2.5 - 3' around. Tidal Waves- If given support of some kind, they will climb and create a hedgelike mound of petunias. Wave Series: Marketed primarily in US Surfinia: Marketed primarily in Europe, but can be found in the US now. (sorry; I've become sort of a Wave/Surfinia geek these last couple weeks.) Here's information on both: Wave Series Surfinia

Michelle65, sorry, but I have to dispute most of your claims. First of all, Wave petunias are spreading petunias, not the other way around. Spreading (Supertunia series, Surfinia series, etc.) petunias grown from cuttings have been around for decades. The Wave series (introduced in 1995) was the first commercially successful spreading petunia that was propagated from seed. Your statement that "the ones that say spreading petunia is the exact same this without the pink pot" is entirely erroneous, as is your statement "greenhouse have only been able to buy Wave seeds for the past couple of years". You should also know that there are FOUR separate divisions of Wave petunias. Actually 5 if you include the vegetatively propagated DOUBLE Waves. Wave, Easy Wave, Tidal Wave and Shock Wave all have very distinctly different growth habits. Are you paying extra for the pink pot? Absolutely. If it is in the pink pot and says Wave on it, it is required to be a Wave petunia, however that is entirely up to the distributor if they want them in a POP (point of purchase) pot or not. Waves can be planted in any color of pot, and there is no law saying that they have to be identified as a Wave. However, if it is NOT a Wave, and the signage identifies it as a Wave, THAT is illegal. The difference you see in price at retail is a factor of a number of things. If it is a spreading petunia grown from a cutting, it will always be more expensive than one grown from seed. But....if is a seed grown spreading petunia (Wave, Avalanche, Ramblin', Plush, Opera, Explorer, Trilogy) and it has all of the marketing POP items associated with it, it drives the price up. All Kleenex are tissues, but not all tissues are Kleenex. All Waves are spreading petunias, but not all spreading petunias are Waves. And for the record, there are no "generic" spreading petunias. Everything has a specific variety name, you just don't always see it at retail.

Full sun here in zone 2b. Faithfully fertilize once a week with Miracle Gro 15-30-15. Mauricio I just fertilize as is, making sure the container is thoroughly watered, the excess will drip out. Only water when needed, they donÂt like wet feet, nor do they like to dry out. Hanging baskets may need more frequent watering, perhaps as often as daily, depending on their size/ volume of soil and weather. Occasionally deadhead seed heads and cut back every other stem to keep them bushy and compact, if you do this all summer long, youÂll have blooms right up till frost. If they get really leggy, shear back, keep in mind that it may take a couple of weeks for them to wave back ;) Sharon

These are the Wave Petunias I have with my Knockouts, not sure which color is which. The lighter colored ones are not white, they're a very light liliac looking color.