Common Name: Zinnia Queeny Red with Lime
Scientific Name: Zinnia Elegans
Life Cycle: Annual
Remarks: Soft burgundy outer petals that gradually lighten to creamy-lime centres.
A mix of fully double, semidouble, and a small percentage of single flowers.
Type Of Seed: Open pollinated, a non-hybrid type of seed that can reproduce itself to have similar traits the parent plant from one generation to the next. If you are saving the seeds, as long as pollen is not shared between two varieties of the same species, the seeds should remain true to type year after year.
Plant Height: 60cm
When: Spring to Summer
Sowing Depth + Method: 6mm deep, raise seedlings or direct sow.
Do not allow plants to become root bound and avoid disturbing roots; transplant shock or other stress events may cause double-flowering varieties to produce single blooms for a period following stress.
Spacing: 30cm apart
Position: Full Sun
Days until germination: 3-5 days 27-29°C
Number of Seeds: 30
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