• Eventual height: 0.6m
  • Eventual spread: 0.3m

Zinnia elegans 'Envy'

zinnia

RHS award of garden merit
approx 100 seeds £2.99
SD30001032
£2.99
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  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: moderately fertile, humus-rich, well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: average to fast-growing
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Hardiness: tender annual (will die after flowering)

    The flower colour of this is summer-blooming annual is a bright yellowish green, and this acts as a wonderful foil to rich shades of purple, plum, orange and yellow. They really add a fresh feel to the borders, and are also excellent for cutting and adding to the vase.

  • Garden care:For early flowers, sow under glass in early spring. Fill a seed tray or pot with good quality compost and space the seeds at 2.5cm intervals and just cover with a sprinkling of compost. Water moderately and when the seedlings are large enough to handle pot on and harden off before planting outside. Alternatively sow thinly outside in a sunny bed after all risk of frost has passed. Thin to 25cm as they grow on. Sowing several batches with a couple of weeks in between each will ensure the flowering period stretches from early summer to the first frosts.

  • Sow: March to June

  • Flowering: June-September

  • Approximate quantity: 100 seeds.
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