the dramatic new flowers, a Petunia named Black Velvet, were developed using natural breeding techniques to turn them a dark black colour and will be on sale at a premium price of £2-£3 per plant, they were developed by flower breeding company Ball Colegrave and will be going on sale for the first time in British garden centres, the plants will be advertised under the catchline 'black goes with everything.' they were created by mixing existing colours already on the market and breeding them by pollen, until they finally got the right shade Stuart Lowen, from Ball Colegrave in Banbury said: 'it's completely unique, it's the first black petunia anywhere in the world',
the Black Velvet Petunia has been for sale in the USA since April, I guess they have a warmer spring out there, it was introduced at this year’s California Spring Trials, do I like it? well I am not sure about that, the question is will the black variety still be around in say 10 years time? that is the test.
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