………………ZINNIAS are one of my summertime FAVORITE flowers!!!!…..I learned to appreciate and love Zinnias from my Mom, who had them growing in every flower bed around our house…..There were hundreds of them! She used to have the large flower variety, and would have vases of them in the house…..I have sort of taken it on as a tradition……I have two varieties of Zinnias…….”CUT & COME AGAIN”…..and….. “STATE FAIR”………The Cut & Come Again are smaller flowers [at the left], and when you cut them more and more grow…providing flowers all season long…….The State Fair Zinnia flowers [on the right], are four times the size, and are the variety my Mom used to grow…When you cut them they grow back too ….My mom , after cutting and displaying them, would let them dry in paper bags….then she would pull the dried petals from the center of the flower, and out would come black seeds at the end of each petal….She saved them for next spring’s planting…….I remember helping her plant them….first making many rows in the beds, and then planting the seeds, one by one!….This took a few days, and I know my Mom loved me helping her with this huge task!….Then you just water and wait!…That’s when I grew to love ZINNIAS!!!!
Zinnias 🌸😍