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 ...

Zinnias are fast-growing, warm-season annual flowers that bloom with abandon, requiring only minimal care. These flowers come in bold, hot-palette colors, with new ones introduced yearly, including ...

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 ...

Last fall, we moved a bunch of small shrubs in the OPC display garden to make room for a rock garden that will be installed next spring. There is a lot of empty space around them, so I plan to grow ...

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 ...

Question: We like to bring flowers indoors from the landscape. What are some good bedding plants to grow for cut flowers during summer? Answer: Any plant blooming during the summer would likely make a ...

Q: I’m new to growing zinnias, and 10 of my plants totally lack flower petals. They just have the center cone-shaped structure. I grew some from seed packs, but I might have picked up a seed head or ...

Perhaps zinnias are the flower we need most in 2020. One word comes up over and over for gardeners who grow this classic annual. “They’re a happy flower,” says Deborah Stover. Zinnias come in a ...

The zinnias are part of the flowering crop experiment that began on Nov. 16, 2015, when NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren activated the Veggie system and its rooting “pillows” containing zinnia seeds. The ...

This time lapse demonstrated the growth stages of a zinnia flower plant. The zinnia seed was directly germinated in potting mix soil. It quickly spouted and grew steadily. Flower buds started to devel ...

From watering tips to when to deadhead, we asked two gardening experts to share their advice. Along with being beautiful and easy to grow, zinnias are also heat- and drought-tolerant. "They are great ...