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Illumination Zinnia Seeds
Zinnia elegans 'Illumination'
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Easy! Easy! Why everybody loves Zinnias: Probably no plant can give you more color for less work. It's because the zinnia is one of the easiest plants to grow from seed (any child can do it, and many do!), they'll give you every color but blue, and they bloom all season up until frost. Can you think of another flower that does all that?
How to grow them: Good full sun is really all that's required, although some of the newer hybrids will even bloom in partial shade. As for water, they don't need much, since they're from hot desert-like habitats. Soil? Almost any soil will do, but they prefer fast-draining gritty soil, if you have that available.
Zinnia seeds are perfect for starting indoors to have bloom early. But be sure you wait until every frost is gone, and the soil has warmed up a bit before setting them out. They're super-sensitive to frost--after all, these plants are from frost-free regions, and don't like cold soil. If you'd rather, you can just wait until spring arrives, and sow them outside. They're very undemanding.
The Wildflower that's been all dressed up for years. There about 20 species of Zinnia in the wild, all in the arid, rocky soils of North, Central and South America, most common in Mexico. If you saw the wild plants, you'd be amazed, since Zinnias are one of our most heavily-hybridized wildflowers, and the somewhat "ragged" originals look nothing like our garden beauties. That's because hybridizers discovered them early, and have been "working on them" for decades.
The Wild Ones The most commonly hybridized species is Zinnia elegans, a common wild plant in Mexico. But in recent years, work has been done on some of the other species. Like the dahlia (also from Mexico) the Zinnia takes quickly and willingly to almost anything the hybridizers want to do: Taller, shorter, or bigger flowers. Multi-colored flowers. You name it, and they seem to be able to do it to Zinnias.
Because of that, these flowers have been staples among major color-makers in gardens since your great-grandmother's time, and more and more beautiful zinnias are created for our gardens almost every year.
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Overall rating: 4.6666665 / 5 from 6 reviews.
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"After using ground clear in the fall and putting down preen in the spring I still had a lot of weeds and even some pig weed!! Last year I sent an e-mail asking some advice on my Pig weed problem but got no response"
Incorrectly marked package?
"I bought a 1/4 lb bag in 2021 of the Zinnia Illumination. Due to personal issues I was unable to plant these until May 2024. I was looking forward to the beautiful pinkish colors. However, now that I have had several flowers on many plants I suspect the seed pkg was incorrectly marked. However, even with 3 year old seeds I am extremely pleased with the growth. And while the flowers are reddish orange and no where near any shade of pink they are still very lovely and prolific! Maybe when the Illumination comes back into stock I will be able to grab a bag of them!"
Excellent variety to attract pollinatiors, quick grower
"garden beds around house and larger area in back yard, to attract buttterflies, hummingbirds, bees. Great variety to grow, fast germination, great response to fertilizer and good heat tolerant. Great pricing on all of your seeds Also, would love very much to win "Sweepstakes""
They bloomed very well in GA
"These flowers bloomed very well in Georgia's clay type soil."
Magical results
"Mass plantings to create butterfly magic, the butterflies are so intoxicated the kids can easily touch them, an amazing experience."
Huge nonstop blooms
"These Zinnias are stunning! We planted them in an area of our large yard where grass failed to grow last spring. They came in thick and vigorous! They grew taller than our fence which is 48" !!! Beautuful shade of pink. They attracted many many butterflies and hummingbirds. We only watered and weeded at the seedling stage, after that these plants required no care at all. There were so many blooms that I was able to have continuous vases of them indoors right through fall."