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Zinnia – Victorian Wedding

Stunning colours and ombre fades – Zinnias bring joy to the garden.

 

The temptation to harvest Zinnias when they first bloom is very real, but as long as you see little curled petals in the centre of them bloom them more layers it is going to add, so leave them for as long as it takes for the petal layers to form and the colour fades to reveal themselves. In some cases this took two weeks in my garden. Meaning you get to enjoy them in the garden, then in the vase for up to another two weeks! Grown from Floret Victorian Wedding, these have been left to open pollinate with the other varieties of Zinnia in my garden (Floret Golden Hour, Floret Little Flower Girl, Floret Unicorn Mix, Floret Precious Metals) so plants will have shared traits of these other varieties too.

 

Seeds cannot be shipped to WA, TAS or NT 

$8.00

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Description

Seeds:  approx 50 open pollinated zinnia seeds collected from Floret’s Victorian Wedding
Sow: using paper towel method in early Spring and move to punnets to mature. Then plant out as weather warms up. Pinch out at approx 20cm height to stimulate more flower stems.
Harvest: Leave blooms on plants for up to two weeks for the full layering of petals and colour fades to reveal themselves. Don’t harvest while stems still wobble. Cut blooms with long stems deep into plant to encourage more blooms with long stems. The more you harvest the blooms, the more you will get through the season. Vase life is great for Zinnias.
Seed-saving: Allow flower to mature on plant and create seed head with dried petals, once the seed head has browned off and is dry feeling, harvest the head and open up to find the seeds within the layers. Viable seeds are firm and don’t bend when gentle folding pressure is applied.

Please keep in mind I am a home gardener and while I have been saving and sowing my own seeds myself for years, they will sometimes not grow exactly as planned. Germination rates may vary, but I am being generous with the amount of seeds in each packet to account for this.