Flowers come in all the colors of the rainbow depending on the variety. Group them in a flower or vegetable garden for color and to attract bees and butterflies. Light: Zinnias grow and flower best in full sun.
They can flower in part shade, especially in warmer climates with afternoon shade, but they may be more susceptible to disease and have fewer flowers. Soil: Zinnias grow best on fertile, well-drained soils high in organic matter. Well-drained soil is important because zinnia seedlings can be prone to rotting in cool, wet soils. Spacing: Plant zinnia seeds a few inches apart in rows or clumps.
Thin to 8 to 18 inches apart, depending upon the variety, once the plant has grown four leaves. Planting: Plant zinnias in spring after all danger of frost has passed, around the same time you'd plant tomatoes. Zinnias are easy to grow directly-seeded into the garden.
For sooner blooms, start seeds indoors 4 to 6 weeks before your last frost date. Growth Habit: Zinnias come in a wide variety of plant sizes. Some are low-growing. Others are 3-foot tall plants with big flowers. Plant the right variety for your usage and that your space allows. Mounding varieties have smaller flowers and produce more ornamental looking plants.
Taller varieties are often used for cutting and are best grown in rows or clumps for a better visual effect. Watering: Zinnias need moist soil to grow their best. This is especially true of young plants. Water deeply a few times a week so the soil stays moist 6 to 8 inches deep. Don't overwater because zinnias can also succumb to rot diseases especially on wet, clay soils. Once established, zinnias a relatively drought tolerant. Fertilizing: Amend the soil before planting zinnias with compost.
Sometimes Japanese beetles will flock to lime and white zinnias. If you live where these beetles are a pest, simply hand-pluck the marauders off the foliage and drop them into a bucket of soapy water. You might think that seed saving is a complex challenge best left to advanced gardening pros, but that is not true when you're talking about zinnia seeds. Do this and in a couple of generations of seeds you will have developed your own strain of zinnias selected to perform well in your conditions.
Simply clip off a dried flower head from each color that you want to save. Pull the flower apart and remove the seeds inside or simply put the whole blossom full of seeds into an envelope. Seal and identify the flower color. Keep the seeds in a cool, dry place until it is time to plant next year. Product Reviews. Home Ideas. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories.
The Rise of the Cleanfluencer. This year, I will be awaiting something new! I just wonder if Zinnia can be bloom in December? I'm planning to sow this last quarter of the year. In Phoenix we could see them bloom in fall.. February starts spring. So the answer is it all depends on location. I have Zinnias in my yard and would like save seeds for next year.
How do I get seeds from this years plants? To save zinnia seeds, wait until the flower is completely shriveled and dry. The seed of these plants will be attached to the shriveled petals. Place the envelopes in a glass jar or air tight plastic container. Seal the container and store it in the back of your refrigerator. Tip: To keep the seed dry, you could add one of those little packets of Silica Gel Desiccants which absorb moisture.
Or, a tablespoon or two of powdered milk wrapped in a facial tissue and placed in the seed storage container will also work to absorb excess moisture from the air. My first time with zinnias from seed this year I have plants over 5' tall.
Must be the year old "seasoned" manure my neighbor shared from her horses! I was successful two years in a row with sowing Zinnia seeds directly into the ground. But by the third year, the critters ate the sprouts as they came up. I was so disappointed as these flowers are so easy and beautiful.
I planted big beautiful grown Zinnias at my condo community entrance this year; and a critter got into one of them! What critter do you suppose did this? We have lots of rabbits and I've noticed a squirrel roaming the area. Any suggestions and thoughts?
Other sources recommend rotating these plantings, too, for best results yes, rotating flowers, not just veggies. Skip to main content. You are here Gardening » Growing Guides. By Catherine Boeckmann. From seed, they will grow very quickly in the right conditions. Zinnias are sensitive to frost, so do not seed until the last frost has passed. See your local frost dates.
Sow a round of seeds every week or so for several weeks to extend the flowering period. Choosing and Preparing a Planting Site Choosing a location that gets full sun is essential. Good air circulation will help to prevent foliar diseases such as powdery mildew later in the season.
Zinnias are adaptable to most soil conditions, but the ideal soil will be rich in organic matter and well-drained. Soil pH should be between 5. If soil is amended with compost, the flowers will grow more quickly.
In fact, they're one of the best flowers that smart gardeners can put to work in their gardens. If there's an easier flower to grow, we'd like to know about it. Zinnias are annuals, meaning that they go from seed to flower to seed quickly. Zinnias' pointy seeds, shaped like little arrowheads, require only basic garden prep to sprout: sow them in well-drained soil, where there's full sun and lots of summer heat, and you'll have tiny seedlings in days, with flowers powering up in just a few weeks.
No perennial can claim that speed! One gardening friend doesn't even bother to prepare her soil—she simply sprinkles seeds wherever she'd like a few zinnias, waters those spots for a couple of days, and lets zinnias' easy-to-grow nature take its course. With variety names like that, you know you're in for color. Zinnias come in a preposterous palette of every bright and pastel except the blues , plus bi-colors, tri-colors, and crazy-quilt mixes designed for cutting, to attract pollinators, etc.
Zinnias have style, in addition to long, strong stems, so they are naturally destined for the vase. Wonderful language gets used when describing zinnia flowers: stars and daisies, dahlias and spiders, buttons and domes, and quill-leaf cactus. Flowers can be "singles," with petals lined up in a row around an open center, or semi-doubles, or doubles. All work marvelously in floral arrangements.
Of course, the tall varieties are the zinnias of choice for cutting: 'Benary's Giant' is famous for its three-foot-tall, sturdy stems and large flowers.
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