Zingy zinnias!
ZINNIAS are nothing if not bright. Tall or short, long-stemmed or bushy, single or double, for borders, for cut flowers, for edging or for containers – these brilliantly coloured summer-flowering daisies come in every colour but blue and bring us vivid, even luminous flowers on plants that are easy to grow.
The flowers vary in shape from simple daisies, dainty stars and anemone-centred to big and blowsy, almost like chrysanthemums. In size they may be like neat buttons or stars, while sometimes they are big and bold.
Half-hardy annuals
Zinnias are all half-hardy annual summer flowers, we sow the seed in spring and they flower all summer. The ‘half hardy’ part means that they are happy to grow outside, but will not take frost so are raised in protection and then planted out. The alternative is to sow the seeds
