Zinnia Cut Come Again Heirloom Seeds
A bed of Zinnia elegans pumila 'Cut & Come Once again'
I don't feel like my summer garden would be consummate with zinnias, and every year I like to experiment with a different variety. Last winter I purchased a couple packets of seeds from Botanical Interests, and got a lot of bang for my buck with the treasured heirloom multifariousness, 'Cut & Come Once more' which were simply stunning and, true to their proper name, produced more flowers than I could keep upwardly with! I wish this story had a happy ending, but as I write this, almost of my zinnias are now gone. Sadness!
Zinnias are veritable butterfly magnets
'Cut & Come Again' is a bold mix of of doubles in shades of orangish and pink born on branching stems and reaching heights of about three feet. (REVISE: I simply went outside and stood next to a remaining dodder, and they are as tall as me and then don't believe the packet. They can get to heights of 5 feet!!) The name is apt; the more you lot cutting flowers, the more they produce, and they are quite long-lived in a vase. I began my seeds in spring in a modest greenhouse to get a spring on the season and one rainy day in May planted them all out in wide rows along the front end of our business firm. I've learned that Zinnias demand to be consistently watered until they are nigh one foot high, and and then they are pretty much drought resistant. Rut and sun lovers, they will rocket upwards and outwards and start producing masses of blooms once the day and evening temps starting time to warm upwardly and level out.
Zinnia seeds can be collected for the following flavour. I like to first mine in spring to go a bound on the flavour.
Information technology didn't have long for the tiny seedlings to explode with growth and colour. The butterflies, bees, moths and hummingbirds all went bananas for them so you couldn't walk by without being in the flight path of some kind of pollinator. (I fourth dimension, a hummingbird literally nigh crashed into the side of my head and then scolded me for being in her mode). They got so big, in fact, that they swallowed up my row of lavander and engulfed my hedge of Knock Out roses. I would take had to pole-vault just to become to the climbing roses behind them, so I had to lookout my Blaze and Pierre de Ronsard roses go eaten alive by the Japanese beetles and non be able to do anything nearly it. Was it worth it, though? Yous bet. These zinnias knocked my socks off.
'Cut & Come Again' Zinnias come up in a wide range of vibrant pinks and oranges
Sadly, terminal week our business firm decided information technology hadn't given u.s. plenty trouble lately and then it provided us with a flooded basement immediately followed by sewer issues. My bed of cute zinnias were in the manner of the guys coming to set up our pipes and long story short everything needed to get cleaned out. Information technology broke my heart pulling them out of the earth while they were in the middle of growing and blooming so abundantly, simply the silver lining is as I was laying them by the curb for the compost truck, neighbors were walking past and request to take bouquets dwelling with them which of grade I was thrilled to oblige. I won't grow these again next season, non because of the bloodshot ending, but simply because I dear experimenting and at that place are so many more to effort. This truly is a fantastic multifariousness, and if I had the space (they need a lot of infinite!) I would certainly grow more than. Perchance in a future garden I will–and one that's well abroad from any pipes!
For summertime-fall colour, zinnias simply tin can't be beat out.
Source: https://hedgerowrose.com/annuals-perennials/annuals/2011/08/18/growing-cut-come-again-zinnias/
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