Zinnia seed Pink

LATIN NAME: ZINNIA ELEGANS

COMMON NAME: Pink Zinnia

The pink zinnia blazes the sturdy, upright annual with the rough, oval leaves and the solitary, single flower heads of the bright-pink rays around the golden, domed centre, the blooms standing on the stiff stems through the whole summer and into the autumn. The flowers open in the steady succession, and the plant grows quickly from the seed. It stands the summer heat and the dry spells well, and it likes the sun, and the moist, well-drained soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The long, steady flowering of the zinnia gives it a recognised place in the research on the warm-season annuals of the daisy family, and the pink forms appear in the studies of the flower pigments and the heat-season bloom. The work looks at the way the heads open in the succession, the stiff stems for the cut flower trade, and the seed biology. The florists value the strong stems, and the growers of the summer bedding and the cutting garden keep the forms in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the sunny garden, the pink zinnia blazes the summer border with the pink heads. The flowers open for the butterflies and the bees, the cut stems serve the vase for weeks, and the plant fills the border, the bed and the pot for the ages. It grows well in the moist, well-drained, sunny ground. Bright, sturdy and long-blooming.

To grow the Pink Zinnia from seed, sow the seeds into the fine drills of the warm open ground, then cover them lightly, keep the drills moist, and the seedlings spring up within a week or two.

Keep the drills gently watered, and thin the seedlings to the roomy spacing. The blazing heads come within the season. Thin them to the roomy spacing, and the blazing heads will blaze through the summer.

Use: Garden decoration