Delicate Beauty
by Elizabeth Winter
Title
Delicate Beauty
Artist
Elizabeth Winter
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Zinnias are certainly among the easiest flowers for anyone, whether just beginning or experienced in gardening, to germinate and grow directly from seed. Their easy culture, heat tolerance and colorful mid to late summer show, blooming hard when other annuals are spent, make them well worth exploring. Zinnias make superb long-stemmed cutting flowers with long-lasting blooms. I love planting bright zinnias mixes near other later summer flowers like amaranth, sunflowers, and tithonia, and if you have zinnias, you will be inviting butterflies to visit your garden!
Zinnias Elegans is the well-known species with the most modern cultivars in a wide variety of plant heights, flower sizes, flower forms and colors. As these vibrant flowers mature, their center discs open into a circle of tiny golden stars. Today, thanks to active breeders, there is just about every imaginable flower form: dahlia- flowered, quilled, crested, ball or pompon-like, single, semi double, fully double. Z. elegans come in every color and some bi-colors except true blue. Color choices are so broad that you can choose from all the way from deep, intensely bright shades to soft, creamy pastels and white. Bi-Colors and striped and speckled varieties are also available. Heights range from 8 inches to almost 4 feet tall. Zinnias Elegans have also been hybridized to increase their resistance to disease and give more weather tolerance.
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September 9th, 2014
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Gabriella Weninger - David
This is soooo GORGEOUS... Very Beautiful flower and butterfly... AWESOME shot Elizabeth!