Pretty picture: Calibrachoa 'Callie Sunrise'

We didn't do so well with the Calibrachoa this spring. Some varieties did just fine, but a few of them went chlorotic (yellow) early in the season and then stayed that way; in the end we had to throw some of them out. This is, I'm told, something that happens with them a lot (Petunias too), and can be corrected if they're fed enough and at the right times.


We also brought in some prefinished baskets in various colors: we could, in theory, make our own, but for various reasons we'd never be able to get them presentable as early as we'd need to, so we buy them instead.

'Callie Sunrise' is a variety we didn't have in four-inch pots, one that came in only on the prefinished baskets. We did have 'Tequila Sunrise,' which is similar (a little pinker), and which was thankfully not one of the plants to go chlorotic on us. (It's a good seller; we had a lot of them.)


I liked the red ones better, myself, but any Calibrachoa in good condition is pretty striking.

Actually, any Calibrachoa in bad condition is striking too, as far as that goes.