Colored Zinnia flower seeds (Zinnia elegans)

Common name: Colorful Zinnia Scientific name: Zinnia elegans Zinnia is a summer herbaceous flowering plant with a woody stem and a rough dark hair, exceeding 50 cm in height, and is a fast-growing annual plant. Its leaves are rounded and dark green. It is characterized by the beauty of its flowers and its ability to withstand drought and high temperatures. • Zinnia flower: The flowers are borne on a cluster exceeding 2 cm in diameter, with multiple petals that add more beauty with their colors ranging from yellow to orange and red. It blooms with the decrease in temperatures and the arrival of spring, and continues flowering until the frost season. • Zinnia seed: Its small, oval, flat, smooth seeds are gray to brown in color. • Zinnia planting season: Zinnia is planted from February to April, and can also be cultivated year-round in agricultural greenhouses and enclosed or plastic places where temperature can be controlled and sunlight reaches, or where the necessary lighting for the plant is available. • Suitable climate and soil for growing Zinnia: Zinnia is one of the most heat-tolerant flowers. We cultivated it from seeds alone, away from trees, in a sunny place all the time, and it survived the entire summer with temperatures exceeding 45°C without any care, even with irregular watering. It thrives in sandy and clay soils and tolerates the soil’s relative salinity. • How to grow Zinnia: It propagates through seeds planted at a depth of 1 cm from the soil surface. It can also be fertilized with organic fertilizer at least once during flowering to accelerate growth. • Benefits and uses of Zinnia: Used for decoration in gardens and homes. • Original habitat: Central America as well as tropical America, and it is cultivated in Saudi Arabia and Gulf countries.