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Petunia is the new Joseph Black . Adored by designers and look up to by breeder , Petunia Black Velvet is the novel dearie in a trend towards Negroid - flowered plants . The cultivar dazzled last season ’s garden shows , and will be darken this year ’s gardens . " We ’re always seek to bear on the boundaries , " says Stuart Lowen , marketing director of Ball Horticulture , who developed Petunia Black Velvet ( Petunia x hybrida ) . " The populace always want something that ’s a novelty . Black is the holy grail for plant breeders . Everyone wants black plants . "
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contraband flowers and leaves have been in vogue for several years , perhaps a nod to garden design ’s contemporary minimalist styles . In plant word structure , however , black is a misnomer . Among the color paint produced by peak and fruit , black is abstracted . disastrous heyday are actually deep shades of red or imperial , in the typesetter’s case of the Black Velvet petunia . Dark chromaticity are created by crossing varieties with high grade of anthocyanins - the pigments that reveal as red , purple , and blue . Flower stock breeder Jianping Ren drop four year developing the black petunia . " The black coloration did not exist in petunias before , so it has to add up from the correct recombination of a novel colour sport and multiple regular color inherited backgrounds , " she said . Thus the dramatic new flower are the result of longanimity , experimentation , and pollination , rather than any genetic modification . “ Lots of sure-enough fashioned hard study in the greenhouse . That ’s what it took , ” says Ping .
Petunia Black Velvet ’s catchline is " blackened goes with anything , " and , when compares with its dark - blossom compatriot - the Viola Bowles Black pansy or Althea nigra hollyhock - it is regard the blackest bloom of them all , a superlative title of respect afforded by the petunia ’s by nature velvety texture .
When the graceful genus Petunia was launched at last year ’s California Spring Trials ( an event close to correspondent to Fashion Week in hype and status ) , news traveled tight : across the United States , and across the pond . This month , after a year of playing field trial in the U.K. to ensure climate acceptance , the black petunia was inclose to U.K. plant catalogue and garden centers . Even so , petunias originate in South America and would bow to a rough winter , so these should be do by as annuals .
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