For superb tolerance of heat, wind, and drought, you simply cannot find a better Zinnia than Persian Carpet Mix. These double and semi-double blooms pop up all over dwarf plants, beginning in early summer and usually going right up to frost. For cut-flower magnificence and nonstop color, there's nothing to equal Persian Carpet Mix!
This heirloom selection is a Mexican Zinnia -- Z. haageana rather than our more familiar Z. elegans or garden zinnia -- and has a dwarf habit. The plants are just about 16 inches high and no more than a foot wide. Yet from these small annuals burst forth dozens upon dozens of brilliant blooms over an incredibly long season!
These flowers measure about 2 inches wide, and sport every color in the Mexican zinnia family: yellow, gold, orange, and burgundy shades are dominant, but you will also see some whites and pure reds sneak in. Most blooms are bicolored, with contrasting centers and/or tips. A few will be single. All will be long-lasting in garden and vase, and will bring butterflies and bees into the sunny annual bed or patio container garden all season long!
All Zinnias are easy to grow, but Persian Carpet Mix is hands-down the best for tolerating extreme heat, drying winds, and drought. This is the one you can fearlessly plant along the baking-hot driveway or sidewalk, or in that poor-soil sideyard that often gets forgotten at watering time. All this sun-lover needs is good soil drainage and a strong start in life!
Persian Carpet Mix is cut-and-come-again, meaning that as soon as you cut or deadhead one bloom, another will begin to set in its place. Keep the plants picked and you will have new flowers for months!
Direct-sow the seeds as soon as the soil has warmed in spring, or for even earlier blooms, start them indoors in the Bio Dome a few weeks before last scheduled frost. Mexican Zinnia doesn't like its roots disturbed, so if you are starting the seeds indoors, transplant them as soon as you can, while the roots are small. Then sit back and wait for the show! Pkt is 50 seeds.
These are festive and vigorous plants for use in borders, bedding, edging, containers, and as a fresh cut flower. They will be covered in flowers from summer to frost. Zinnia elegans, Common Zinnia, grows 6-40 inches tall and has broad ovate, 1-4 inch long by 1-2 inch wide leaves. The 1-7 inch diameter flowers come in colors of pink, rose, cherry, lavender, purple, red, orange, salmon, gold, yellow, cream, or light green. Color patterns are solid, zoned, or multi-colored, petal arrangement is either single or double, and flower heads are often chrysanthemum-, dahlia-, or cactus-like. Zinnia haageana, Mexican Zinnia, grows 12-18 inches tall and has narrow 1-2 inch long by 1/2 inch wide leaves. The 1-21/2 inch flowers are red, mahogany, yellow, or orange. Color patterns are solid or two-toned and petal arrangement is either single or double. Zinnia angustifolia (Z. linearis), Narrow-leaf Zinnia, grows 12 inches tall and has narrow, 1-2 inch long by 1/2 inch wide leaves. The 1 inch diameter flowers are golden-orange with yellow stripes and are single in petal arrangement
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
For superb tolerance of heat, wind, and drought, you simply cannot find a better Zinnia than Persian Carpet Mix. These double and semi-double blooms pop up all over dwarf plants, beginning in early summer and usually going right up to frost. For cut-flower magnificence and nonstop color, there's nothing to equal Persian Carpet Mix!
This heirloom selection is a Mexican Zinnia -- Z. haageana rather than our more familiar Z. elegans or garden zinnia -- and has a dwarf habit. The plants are just about 16 inches high and no more than a foot wide. Yet from these small annuals burst forth dozens upon dozens of brilliant blooms over an incredibly long season!
These flowers measure about 2 inches wide, and sport every color in the Mexican zinnia family: yellow, gold, orange, and burgundy shades are dominant, but you will also see some whites and pure reds sneak in. Most blooms are bicolored, with contrasting centers and/or tips. A few will be single. All will be long-lasting in garden and vase, and will bring butterflies and bees into the sunny annual bed or patio container garden all season long!
All Zinnias are easy to grow, but Persian Carpet Mix is hands-down the best for tolerating extreme heat, drying winds, and drought. This is the one you can fearlessly plant along the baking-hot driveway or sidewalk, or in that poor-soil sideyard that often gets forgotten at watering time. All this sun-lover needs is good soil drainage and a strong start in life!
Persian Carpet Mix is cut-and-come-again, meaning that as soon as you cut or deadhead one bloom, another will begin to set in its place. Keep the plants picked and you will have new flowers for months!
Direct-sow the seeds as soon as the soil has warmed in spring, or for even earlier blooms, start them indoors in the Bio Dome a few weeks before last scheduled frost. Mexican Zinnia doesn't like its roots disturbed, so if you are starting the seeds indoors, transplant them as soon as you can, while the roots are small. Then sit back and wait for the show! Pkt is 50 seeds.
These are festive and vigorous plants for use in borders, bedding, edging, containers, and as a fresh cut flower. They will be covered in flowers from summer to frost. Zinnia elegans, Common Zinnia, grows 6-40 inches tall and has broad ovate, 1-4 inch long by 1-2 inch wide leaves. The 1-7 inch diameter flowers come in colors of pink, rose, cherry, lavender, purple, red, orange, salmon, gold, yellow, cream, or light green. Color patterns are solid, zoned, or multi-colored, petal arrangement is either single or double, and flower heads are often chrysanthemum-, dahlia-, or cactus-like. Zinnia haageana, Mexican Zinnia, grows 12-18 inches tall and has narrow 1-2 inch long by 1/2 inch wide leaves. The 1-21/2 inch flowers are red, mahogany, yellow, or orange. Color patterns are solid or two-toned and petal arrangement is either single or double. Zinnia angustifolia (Z. linearis), Narrow-leaf Zinnia, grows 12 inches tall and has narrow, 1-2 inch long by 1/2 inch wide leaves. The 1 inch diameter flowers are golden-orange with yellow stripes and are single in petal arrangement
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.