Annual Flower Trials at Bluegrass Lane, Horticulture Section, Cornell University

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Petunia Black Velvet
By Ball FloraPlant

	Score	Rank
Overall	3.1	75
Plot uniformity	3.1	81
Flowering	3.1	67
Foliage	3.2	78
Landscape value	3.1	76
Score: 5=highest; 1=lowest Rank: Out of 178 Need to figure out where to point this: More about this data

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15 June	30 June	15 July
30 July	15 Aug	30 Aug

June 15 view
June 15: flowers closed, poor in rain, discolored petals, flowers have holes, velvet black, wow, needs more contrast, not opened fully.

June 30 view
June 30: a little yellow streaking = stress, looks very classy with Bacopa Jumbo Light Pink, not opening well.

July 15 view
July 15: a few flowers with yellow, a little botrytis, flowers spotty, flowers don't open all the way, spreading like crazy, holes in flowers, needs deadheading, velvety, upright, foliage overwhelms, not nice habit.

July 30 view
July 30: flowers only half open, great black.

August 15 view
Aug 15: thinning, flowers don't open fully, stressed, looks purple, gorgeous color, a bit leggy, does look like velvet, some reverting to yellow.
August 30 view
Aug 30: center of plant is defoliated but ends are lush and flowering.

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