Common Name:Zinnia Tetra State Fair

Scientific Name:ZinniaElegans

Life Cycle:Annual

Remarks:Huge, 7- 12cm blooms on vigorous plants.

An old-fashioned zinnia variety. This variety produces tall, healthy, vigorous plants with large blooms.
This mix may include red, purple shades, scarlet, rose, salmon, orange, yellow, white, lavender, and more. Long stems. Cut-and-come-again flower, yielding multiple cuts over the season. All zinnias are great for native pollinators, butterflies and bees.

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:70-100cm

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:30cmapart

Position:Full Sun

Days until germination:7 – 10 days @27-29C

Approx Seed to Bloom:90 days

Approx Number of Seeds:50

Note:WA orders are sent weekly as they require quarantine inspections on arrival to WA.

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