ZINNIAS: Tips, Tricks, & Seeds 🌸🌸🌸 || All About Zinnias || How To Grow Zinnias From Seed 

Most of my zinnias are originally from seeds that my mom gave me 45 years ago, when my husband and I moved into our first home. I grew and harvested these seeds/plants every year, and hadn’t ever actually bought zinnia seeds until a couple of years ago. The reason I bought seeds that year was because I didn’t have any of the Candy Cane variety. This year, I bought a couple of packets of zinnia seeds at Walmart, hoping to get some colors that I didn’t have much of. I probably won’t buy zinnia seeds next year. When I harvest my seeds, I never try to pick the seeds out. I put whole flower heads in a paper sack to store over the winter. In the spring, I crumble the flower heads apart and sprinkle seeds, petals and all in a small narrow trench and cover lightly with soil. I figure the petals and all of the other chaff make a compost. I live in southern MO and usually wait until around the first of May, after frost dangers are over, to plant my zinnias. They usually start coming up in about 10-14 days, and then start to bloom around the first of July. They are definitely one of my favorite flowers, and I love to see the butterflies that visit them!

Congratulations on your 20th anniversary! After 51 years I can barely remember not being married.

I’m 16 and your channel is helping me so so much! Thank you for all the tips!

In the Victorian Era ‘language of flowers , zinnias mean ‘thoughts of absent friends’ or close variations of that. Started growing my own in grad school in teeny garden with roommates. Hence, as grad school days ended, and we each established our own homes…zinnias have been a part of our own gardens though many miles apart. Though many decades ago, this tradition has been maintained and shared with others, too!

I love the joy and enthusiasm that you bring to this video. Thank you

I LOVE ZINNIAS ❤ .. last year was my 2nd year to grow them..I cant believe I never grew them before.. but they are gorgeous and easy and beautiful..love all the colors just makes a garden POP .. thanks Amanda.. love your videos 🎉

This was my first year growing flowers of any kind, and zinnias will be in my garden every year from now on because they were so amazing.

oh my!! so many screenshots of beautiful zinnias

I have grown some heirloom varieties outside in large pots before and had great success. After seeing this excellent video I’m going to start mine indoors this time. It’s a control thing for me too! 😊 We are in zone 9b so it’s great to find a channel by an avid gardener in a similar zone!

TFS. I live in Houston, my neighbor has always had zinnias. I had them several years ago, I’m going to go back to them because of this video

Good job. Cheap and cheerful zinnias are easy and rewarding.

You inspired me to start planting zinnias 2 years ago so thank you!!!!!

Welcome back and thanks for all the great tips 😊

Your flower arrangements are beautiful! Thanks for the helpful information about growing Zinnias.

I just planted a bunch of zinnias seeds outside. Love zinnias! One of my favorite flowers. Love the new varieties you planted. Can’t wait to see them grow and bloom in your garden. Thanks for all the information.

Thanks for this! Everyone just says they are easy and don’t say why. I found this really helpful. This is the first year that I’m growing for varieties of zinnias and I’m learning a lot in SC 8a. Right on time!

Thank you for this informative and helpful video. Zinnias put on a great show. I plant them in pots in a sunny spot; so I prefer shorter size zinnias that bloom beautifully. Zinnias attract butterflies, bumble bees, bees, and hummingbirds.

Grew Benary Giants a couple of years ago. Just spread seeds into a flower bed. I was so astounded at how tall they got...6ft ! Had butterflies galore! Trying new ones out this year.

Last year I discovered that butterflies were eating some wild parsely and cocooning in my garden. Plus, I have milkweed growing in my garden area that attracts polinators. So I decided to add Zinnias this year, not just for the bees, but also for the butterflies that emerge long after many other flowers are spent close to fall.

Hi my sweet friend over here giving love and support you and watching all your beautiful card and videos you have put together love your fairy gardens in your garden videos

Your bouquets were beautiful. I was lucky enough to get two zinnia plants this year. It seems like everyone was also getting them. Maybe I'll order seeds next time. Can't wait to see mine multiple over the years

I just the details in your video in Zinnias. I have watched so many and this is the best. So well spoken. 😊

Planting Zinnia's for the first time this year. I am excited to see what comes up 🙂

I had no luck with zinnias but it was because they werent getting enough sun. I just bought 4 packs of ready to plant for $3 at walmart yesterday. They are going right by the enterence to my garden. Good for encouraging pollinators

I love your enthusiasm for gardening and enjoy sharing in all your latest projects! I am excited to be trying some 'Zowie Yellow Flame' zinnias for the first time this year. The seeds just sprouted a couple of days ago. Each bloom is a rainbow of colors with yellow edges, then orange and pink towards the center.

Love this video. I currently have queen lime orange and blush growing but hadn't thought about doing multiple seedings. I have the same seed containers but never thought about putting water in the tray. We are having delightful cool weather on the east coast but trapped inside due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Perfect day to start new set of seedlings indoors.

I’m so glad I found your channel. Amazing, detailed, and informative video. Great job and thank you!

I have some zinnias I direct sowed that are about to bloom and I’m so excited! Zinnias are just gorgeous flowers. Thank you for your informative videos as they’re very helpful.

Hi Amanda, this was just the video I needed to see. I have some Queenie seeds that I want to get started but this is my first year of seed starting flowers so I totally appreciate your detailed information. I was afraid I had waited too long to get them going and missed the boat but now I see I have not, YEA! The pictures of your harvested flowers were beautiful and impressive!

I'm growing giants this yr. Thanks for all the good info. Happy anniversary ❤❤

I recently discovered my first powdery mildew issue with a zinnia. It's in a container completely separated from any other plant. In fact, it's raised above the ground sitting atop a scrap piece of I-beam. It gets more shade than any of my other zinnias, though, in the PNW zone 8-b. Summer seems to be ending early this year and we have experienced a mild amount of rainfall already. Since I container garden, the solution I'm getting is to move it into a sunnier space. That's the beauty of container gardening.

This is a very informative video. I just discovered how easy it is to grow these beauties and will try to grow my own. I just ordered some seeds and will order the growing trays you use. Thank you for sharing. A new subscriber!😊I can't wait for spring.

I love zinnias, probably because it is really easy to be successful with just a handful of seeds. I told my husband a couple of months ago, "Remind me I don't need any more zinnia seeds." His response: "But there might be some you don't have!" I've got zinnias, dahlias and salvia ready to go in the ground, but we are having such an extended spring here in zone 7B N MS that the poppies, bachelors buttons, nigella and larkspur are still blooming and I can't bear to pull them up (although I need that spot!). I start Persian Carpet zinnias in mid to late July for fall bloom. Aztec Sunset and Jazzy Mix are also good colors for fall, and cosmos Rubenza. My reseeded zinnias never come back as the original variety: they're always pink. At my old house and my mom's, they always came back orange. I'm trying 'Inca' and 'Sungod' this year for late summer-fall bloom.

Thanks for the amazing video on Zinnias, I love Zinnias. I like the Magellan zinnias for border plants, they have the large 4-6 inch blooms but don't grow taller than 18 inches 😊

I am so very thrill I found you. It's so great to learn from you❤🥀🌺🌻🌼🌷💞

Love your video on Zinnias. You explained everything so well which is a big help. I have subscribed and will be watching from now on.

Happy anniversary ❤️❤️ Love zinnias!!! I have good luck with them.

Love this video Zinnias are my go to flower yo grow from seed I have a bouquet in my house every day in the summer I have planted many of the same varieties as you Today my lettuce bed is past it’s prime so I ripped them out and planted more zinnias I have planted zinnias 3 times this year!! B

I love Zinnias I planted them for the first time last year and I’ll plant them every year from now on. 🌸

This is my first year growing zinnias. Absolutely love them. Just planted Persian carpet as well. I’m in zone 9b and it is really dry right now. Been watering every day but they look fantastic. So glad you did a video on zinnias. Great content. Thanks.

I didn’t know your cruise was for such a special occasion! Congratulations and many more wonderful years! Enjoyed this video and thanks for the info that is it almost never to late this to start them, except winter. I think about it every week and don’t because I think it might be too late. A friend gave me Queen Lime Orange seedlings last year, my first time to grow zinnias. Wow, was I impressed with them. Great slide show photos! Loved the first one of you with the red/pink basket! 🥰 As usual, great info and inspiration. My Queen Lime didn’t reseed but I’m going plant seeds now and just see what happens. I saved a lot of the dried blooms just for this purpose. Thank you!!

Thank you..I love zinnias

Last year I found many packs of zinnias and I was too busy so I just sprinkled ten pkg of seeds and everyone told Becky thin. I didn’t bc I was too busy, oh my the zinnia patch was so gorgeous! So many flowers and pollinators for weeks and weeks and so many bouquets . Not an ideal way to plant but it worked and was so beautiful . Think I’m doing same this year!

I just planted 2000 Zinnias! I’m so excited!

My only complaint about zinnias is how easily they get blight for me. Otherwise they are awesome! I'm south central Texas and they LOVE heat, so they are a great flower here! This is one of three flowers I would recommend to grow for beginners. So easy!! Larkspur and cosmos are pretty easy also. Cosmos ALWAYS reseeds for me, even after one season! 😄

That one at 3:36 is GORGEOUS!!!!!

Hi I am growing a lot of flowers my Zinnias didn't catch. Thank you for helping, you have a gift of connection, happy to of found you.

Great information, thanks for shgaring.

Thank you for the tips! I discovered zinnias and how much variety there are. I don’t like hydrangeas 😅… I feel like I’m the only (newbie) gardener who don’t find them “unique enough for me” as all my neighbors have them. I have seen snow ball verbena and like them though 😂- yeah, the irony is not lost on me

Great video! I'm growing Benarys Giant for the first time this year in SE England - fingers crossed for some warm weather 😅 Tip I learned recently is rather than change shelves and lighting, raise the trays up onto other seed trays and place the heat mat in-between -- this gives you a lot more flexibility as the seedlings grow to then drop the trays lower

I love your grow light set up. It looks like regular shelving. I haven’t want to go there yet because most set ups look so industrial and messy. I don’t have a good place in my house to hide it. But yours is beautiful!!! Thanks for the inspiration!

I love zinnias

Hi Amanda, Happy Anniversary!💐

Hi, thanks for such a comprehensive video about Zinnia. These flowers are well worth growing in any garden. I subbed because I want to learn more. X

Bonjour! J’adore les Zinnia depuis….au moins 30 ans! Ils sont fabuleux et si facile à cultiver. J’aime essayer d’offenses sortes et aussi reprendre mes semences d’années en années sur de vieux plants. C’est tellement gratifiant. Je vais commencé cette année les Pavots. Mais je sais que mon cœur va vers les Zinnia! L’année dernière, j’ai eu beaucoup de limaces. On a eu tellement de pluie au Québec. Je n’aime pas beaucoup les petits contenants avec dôme surtout au moment où je sors mes semis dans ma petite serre. Ils ont trop chauds. Je les cultive maintenants dans de grands bacs, tout simplement. Je les transplante ensuite dans de plus gros pots. J’aime bien aussi les mettre dans les pots et les aménager directement avec ces pots!

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Thanks for the information.

This year is my first time to frown Zinnias. 😊

Belated Happy 20th Anniversary! I saved the seeds from my Queen Lime zinnias from last year. I grow them in containers on my deck. Bonny

Watched a video on mums yesterday and a gentleman from California mentioned that zinnias and mums are in the same family. I got so excited until I remembered my brother's and I are in the same family 😂

Thank you. Will do. Apprec ur help

Great video!

Hi. I just started watching your video on zinnias to learn more about these plants. I’m planning to grow 2 different varieties this year: zinnia Giant Purpke by Botanical Interest and white zinnias that I picked up from the local nursery. I am curious how you like your 12 pack seed starter trays? I’ve been growing veggie seeds in to-go containers and plastic egg cartons this year with great success. But I think I’m ready to upgrade. Thanks.

Great advice and insight! Thanks

Mine lasted up to the first frost one year, they are beautiful frosted or frozen too ❤

Could you share how to do a garden journal for a first-time gardener I love your videos

I think the Queen Lime series seeds tend to be more expensive. Great video, as usual! Thank you!

I am trying them again after decades ago. I ket them fet to hit one day and the leaves are all brown . I trimmed them but still crummy looking. They have blooms at top. Should I cut /deadhead the them way back? Your video is very helpfull.

Next year I'm definitely plant more zinnias, sunflowers. I find zinnias and sunflowers are easily to plant then Cosmo and marigolds. However after I plant comos I learned that cosmo need to sow in the fall in my 7b/8a in west coast Canada. This year is the first year I try plant flowers for bouquets for the Buddhist temple. It's hard to get sunflower procut series.

HI Amanda, I just found your channel. Everyone says zinnias are easy to grow but I haven't had much luck. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I know they need to be in full sun. I need to know what kind of soil they need and what kind of fertilizer? I am making a special bed just for zinnias. I am in central Alabama. Thank you!

Also could I replicate this by using a pop up greenhouse in the yard?

Very informative!! My question is when i gather my seeds from dried flowers, how do i store them until the next season. Paper bag? Zip lock bag? Thank you!!

Happy 20th , I have many seeds. Thank u

Loving this content,do you have a video on propagating existing plants,such as petunias,coleus, etc?

Nice selection of Zinnia. Thank you for all this information. You should try Peace Seedlings Zinnia. Very unique zinnias.

I love Zinnias and plant them every year, but I have to battle earwigs every night. The leaves are stripped bare by the end of summer.

Thank you. . Your video awas very helpful.I really enjoyed it. And subscribed to see more. I love zinnias This is the first time that I actually bought a PKG of seeds and grew some. The first batch didn't get moved under lights soon enough and we're too leggy. Second batch started under a grow light. They got leggy too. But not as bad. Yesterday, I planted them deep. Burying most of the stem. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Will this work? Or should I just plant another batch of seeds outside?

R Do you transplant directly from the small seed pots or do you plant up in larger containers before planting outside? Thank you

Here is a tip that I use I spray my Zinas with Sea Kelp it seams to work for me. You might have to do spray a couple of times hope you like my Idea 💡.

You are not concerned about the seeds in the storage container getting too warm under the heat mat? I always thought it best to keep seeds as cool as possible for storage.

Thanks for the great video! When you save seeds do you have any issues with them cross-pollinating and not coming back true to type?

What about the hummingbirds I've only had one in my flowers witch is Zinas.

Amanda, wow, this was power packed video! Great info that I never would have known. Yours always are stunning! Do you ever have problems with snails or any other pests that bother your zinnias? Something ate all of mine up! 😢 Linda

what are the little seed sprouting trays? Thanks so much for the helpful info!

Have you ever considered that you deal with powdery mildew every year, because you start your zinnia seeds inside?

Do you put one seed in the ground apart from the other, or can you spread them out in a handful at a time all over the ground?

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Ok, I'm going to be the spoiler in this love fest on zinnias. First, let me admit, I live on an acre where almost the entire perimeter is lined with 50+ year old trees. So my "full" sun situation is questionable. Second, this is my 3rd attempt at growing zinnias and this year has been the most challenging. The seedlings I planted out early May (Zone 7, Maryland) have been taken over by some bug, but I never see them on the plants. So out of 24 plants, I think 4 or 5 have grown beyond 4 or 5", the others are gone. I even tried direct sowing unsuccessfully. I started another 24 and just planted them out yesterday, so fingers crossed. I think if I really want to be successful, I'm going to need to consider moving some plants that might give me a space with a little more sunlight. Having said that, I have put my sunflowers in the most sun in my yard and they seem to be more successful. It's not that I don't like zinnias, I think they don't like my conditions.😔😏

Do you place the seed flat or pointy end first into the soil. I was hoping you would show how you do it, but you fast forwarded it so I couldn’t tell how you did it. I love zinnias also.

How long do you keep the grow lights on for everyday?

I need your advice. I will be moving my seedlings 3-1 to the garden They are about 3 inches. Can i put them in a west facing part of the yard? I live in so cal and later in summer gets bloody hot out there. Its dappled sun till early aft then the sun hits it hard till sunset. Can they take it? Or too little, with less blooms. Apprec your help.

I planted zinnias in growing trays inside and they are sprouting already, I didn’t know but I guess you cannot disturb their roots? I’m feeling very worried because will the plant be affected when I pooped out of the tray into the ground? Any tips might help. I should have done my research first 😩

Zinnias are a favorite of mine too. And I've been trying to grow more veggies this year so I have neglected broadcasting my zinnia seeds. But maybe it's not too late? I did have a zinnia elegant volunteer crop up and is blooming profusely in a bed where I have a Japanese Yew, Limelight hydrangea, and a gorgeous oak leaf hydrangea. Unfortunately, my beautiful oak leaf hydrangea bit the dust and I cannot determine why. One day it was gorgeous and blooming and the very next day it was dried up and gone! It was the third year for it and I was so upset about it. What in the world could have killed it? The only thing I can think of is we hired Weedex to help with our disappearing St. Augustine here in the North Texas area. Could whatever they sprayed killed my oakleaf hydrangea? I have been so upset about it but I know I have to move on. But should I plant another one and pray and not let Weedex in my back yard? I an do without the grass! LOL. Just not my hydrangeas. Interestingly, the Limelight hydrangea about two feet from it is just fine. Do you have any clues for me, Amanda? Sorry, I know this is about Zinnias. Those I don't have too much of an issue with -- so far. But thanks for your always helpful and inspiring videos!

Happy Anniversary

Any tips on growing our class Zinnias?

What zinnia variety is suited to plant outside

Zinnias!

Can you plant zinnias in pots ? I love zinnias.

Will you divide the ones that have more than one in a cell