The last few summers one of our neighbours has been growing a beautiful mix of zinnias in their front yard. We pass the garden on our walk to school every day and I always delight in the beautiful flower shapes and great mix of colours. I even started making some patterns a while ago with the zinnias as inspiration!
I've been keeping an eye out for zinnia seedlings at the nursery for just as long, but I've had no luck, they never seem to have them. So this year I got organised. I went on Ebay and bought some zinnia seeds. And yes after waiting so long I got slightly carried away with all the pretty pictures and ended up with six different zinnia seed varieties! I chose some with names like Envy a beautiful green flower, Polar Bear a full white zinnia, Pastel Dreams with beautiful muted colours and my favourite, Violet Queen, the big double flower on the right.
Giveaway
I sowed six punnets of seeds yesterday, one of each type and I still have quite a few seeds left over so I thought I might make up some lucky dip packets and give them away to local readers. So if you want some zinnia seeds just email me your address (email address top left) and I'll pop a few seeds in the mail next week when I get back. I think I can make up at least five packets to give away with 10 or so seeds in each, a mix of all the flowers above.
Ooh I love your zinnia designs :) Have fun watching your seeds grow, it's so much fun growing stuff from seeds...from little things big things grow.
ReplyDeleteYou'll make a green thumb out of me yet! (with any luck). And it would be wonderful to be able to grow something successfully that isn't purple. So far I’m pretty good with purple clumpy flowered bushy thingies, a purply pink magnolia, and puce hellebores. The white hellebores are a whole lot less impressed. Go figure.
ReplyDelete(promise to water 'em and talk encouragingly).
You have no idea how happy this colourful post just made me. I just bought some flowers the other day in order to be able to fight the bleak weather of the up-coming weeks a little.
ReplyDeleteThis is spooky. A friend brought me a few zinnias her mum had grown. I was blown away by how pretty their colours and shapes were and how bloomin' long they last in a jam jar full of water (still going after 2 1/2 weeks). Sadly I think sending seeds through the post to me would be illegal if I were lucky enough to win but I will DEFINITELY be sowing zinnias next spring. They're my new favourite.
ReplyDeleteThey are just beautiful Susie - they make me smile :) Kx
ReplyDeleteThe designs are lovely! Wonderful flowers too. Have a beautiful weekend, Kellie xx
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