‘Cool Crayon Colors’ Cutting Zinnia Seeds

Zinnia - Cool Crayons - Zinnia elegans Annual - This custom blend offers you gorgeous, florist-quality zinnias in lovely shades that make color coordinated bouquets as you pick them. These densely-petaled, fully double flowers in deep lavender, carmine-rose, soft pink, and white and beautiful both in the garden and cut for flower arrangements. The branched 3 - 3.5' tall plants have strong garden performance and stand up well to both summer rain and heat, yielding armfuls of long-stemmed flowers all season. Soil & Water: Zinnias grow readily in ordinary garden soil in full sun.

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Zinnia elegans
• Plant type: Annual
• Growth habit: Upright
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Flower character: Annual - This custom blend offers you gorgeous, florist-quality zinnias in lovely shades that make color coordinated bouquets as you pick them.
• Recorded feature: Open-Pollinated
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: 1/2"
• Germination: 7-10 Days
• Height At Maturity: 3 to 3-1/2 feet
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 8-10"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for ‘Cool Crayon Colors’ Cutting Zinnia and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

Place ‘Cool Crayon Colors’ Cutting Zinnia where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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