Zinnias make fantastic cut flowers and companion plants, and their rainbow-hued blooms fit right into garden borders, flower beds, and patio planters. These annual flowers need to be replanted every ...

Question: I would like to produce a bed of low-growing zinnias. Can I start them from seed? Answer: Start your seeds growing now to have zinnias ready for the garden in about six weeks. A number of ...

Zinnias are an easy plant to grow and care for, making them a perfect beginner plant. As annuals, they can grow in any region in just about any soil that has good drainage. Zinnias (Zinnia elegans) ...

As delightful as it can be to grow a colorful flower garden just for yourself, creating one that butterflies, and other pollinators enjoy can be even better. Unfortunately, purchasing plants to fill a ...

Starting your own plants from seeds can save a lot of money and give you way more choice than you’ll find at plant-buying time... even in the biggest garden centers. When you start your own seeds ...

If you find yourself dreaming of flowers and fresh vegetables during this time of the year, then you are a gardener! While it is a bit early to start planting outside, you can get a head start, and a ...

For the past few years, I have reacquainted myself with a childhood favorite flower, zinnias. I had been too busy trying to grow perennials (that the voles kept eating), and have an English-looking ...

There’s no happier flower in the cutting garden than the zinnia. In an array of colors, shapes, and sizes, these floral blooms spark smiles at first sight, adding pizzazz to cutting gardens and summer ...

Before you order seeds from the glossy catalogs promising abundance, check out my list of easy versus not easy at all plants to start from seed! Annual flower seeds first: Not many can be successfully ...

This time lapse demonstrated the growth stages of a zinnia flower plant. The zinnia seed was directly germinated in potting ...