Zinnia elegans seed
LATIN NAME: ZINNIA ELEGANS
COMMON NAME: Common Zinnia
In the warm plains of the far south, the common zinnia grows as a robust, upright, annual herb with the oval, rough, opposite leaves and the large, solitary, daisy-like flower heads of white, yellow, orange, pink, red and purple ray petals around the golden centres, opening from the early summer until the frost. In time it quickly becomes a rounded crown, reaching 5-10 metres. Site it in full sun, in deep, fertile ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The common zinnia occupies a place in the studies of the warm-season annuals, its large daisy heads and its branching habit keeping it in view in the work on the bedding plants of the summer garden and the flower breeding of the region. The research looks at the way the rough leaves carry the plant, the daisy heads open through the long season, and the seed biology of the flat, pointed seeds.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the summer border and the cutting garden, the common zinnia carries the large, bright, daisy heads through the hottest months and keeps on flowering until the frost cuts it down. The easy annual gives one of the longest flower shows of the garden, and the plant makes the fine bedding plant, the cut flower and the plant of the hot, sunny garden. It is a plant for the open, sunny, deep and fertile place.
To grow the Common Zinnia from seed, sow the pointed seeds on the surface of moist, light compost.
Sow the pointed seeds on the surface of moist, light compost, and keep the young zinnias in the open, sunny spot. The bright heads open with the early summer.
LATIN NAME: Zinnia elegans
COMMON NAME: Common Zinnia, Elegant Zinnia, Youth-and-age
The common zinnia is one of the most colourful and dependable of the summer flowers, and its brilliant, daisy-like blooms have brightened the gardens of the warm world for a very long time. In good conditions it grows a dense, bushy clump, staying under a metre. It is native to Mexico, but it is grown as an ornamental in many places and naturalised in several parts of the warm world, and it is one of the most beloved of the garden annuals.
The common zinnia belongs to the daisy family, Asteraceae, and it is an annual flowering plant native to Mexico but grown as an ornamental in many places and naturalised in several parts of the warm world. It is known as the common zinnia, the elegant zinnia or the youth-and-age, and it is prized for its brilliant, long-lasting blooms.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The common zinnia has a genuine and growing place in both horticultural and botanical research. It has been studied in horticulture, since it is one of the most colourful and dependable of the garden annuals, prized for its long season of brilliant bloom, and researchers have examined its cultivation, its breeding and its many cultivars, while the development of the many colours and forms of the garden zinnias from the wild Mexican plant has been of interest in the study of plant breeding, and the zinnia has been a valued subject in the breeding of the flower crops. The plant has also been studied in botany, since it is a member of the daisy family, and researchers have examined its classification and its relationships, while the long-lasting blooms of the zinnias have been of interest. The species has also been studied in the research on the cut flowers, since the zinnia is a valued cut flower, and its keeping quality has been examined. For a plant of such colour and such dependability, the common zinnia has a rich and growing record of research.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
Ecologically, the common zinnia is a generous plant of the summer garden. Its brilliant flowers feed butterflies and bees and other insects through a long season, and its seeds feed small birds, while it is a blaze of colour in the beds and the borders of the warm world.
Its economic value is real. It is one of the most planted of the garden annuals, grown in the beds, the borders and the public plantings around the world, and it is a valued cut flower, while its long season and its ease of growth have drawn attention in the international gardening press as one of the most dependable and colourful of the summer flowers. For a grower, the common zinnia is an easy and generous annual, and for a gardener it brings brilliant, daisy-like blooms from midsummer to the frost. The seeds are among the easiest — sow them directly in a pot of moist soil in spring, keep it in a sunny spot and lightly watered, and the sturdy seedlings appear within a week, growing on to flower through the summer and into autumn.
PLANT SEEDS: At 70 – 80F BLOOM TIME: Summer – Fall HARDINESS ZONE: Annual PLANT HEIGHT: 24 – 36″ PLANT SPACING: 24 – 36″ LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average