Tsiniya is not just a flower. This plant is absolutely unusual in beauty, literally bewitching the eye with an unusually beautiful combination of a rich spectrum of bright colors that unspeakably adorn the garden in summer, and in autumn zinnia is especially desirable in the garden, as it revives dull autumn colors, prolonging the sunny summer. Here is such a beautiful and necessary flower - zinnia. From the seeds you can get both flowers immediately in a permanent place, and seedlings.
It is quite possible to sow zinnia in the beginning and in the middle of May immediately in open ground, but the use of covering material is mandatory.
Most often, elegant zinnia is found in areas of amateur gardeners. This annual plant is simply of stunning beauty, reaching a height of 20 centimeters to one meter. The stems of the plant are erect branching, the leaves are large and rough. The flowers are combined in inflorescences in the form of large baskets, reaching 16 centimeters in diameter, very elegant, bright and diverse in color. Tsinii are terry, semi-double or smooth.
Known in horticultural practice, and another species of this plant - zinnia narrow-leaved. It looks very different than elegant zinnia. Narrow-leaved zinnia is low, reaches only 35 centimeters, its stems branch strongly already starting from the very base, as a result, original spherical bushes are formed.
The inflorescences of narrow-leaved zinnia are also not so large and reach only four to six centimeters in diameter. The color is also quite bright, sometimes it is quite bizarre, two-color, while the colors can be arranged in regular rings, spots or borders.
Even the unpleasant fact that zinnia is afraid of the cold cannot prevent the popularity of the flower. Of course, zinnia growing seedlings of which was accompanied by hardening can withstand small, up to one degree below zero, frosts, both seedlings and adult flowering plants, but the flower does not withstand more sensitive frosts. But as if in compensation for this lack of zinnia is very drought-resistant.
This beautiful flower is characterized as long-blooming. Bushes bloom closer to the end of June, and flowering continues until frost, decorating the garden for a long time. A flowering plant looks good in arrays and groups, perfectly decorating rabatki and borders. Many gardeners used to plant on alpine slides.
In a zinnia flower, seedlings are grown as follows. First, sow zinnia. This is done at the very beginning of April in greenhouses, and in greenhouses. Under normal conditions, seedlings appear about a week after sowing.
After about a week and a half, a pick is carried out, after which the plants need to be fed using complex fertilizers. Such top dressing needs to be repeated a couple more times before transplanting seedlings to a permanent place, then the plants will look like real zinnia at the time of transplanting. The seedling cultivation ends here.
Landing of hardened seedlings in the soil becomes possible immediately after the end of frost. Graceful cinnamon is planted at a distance of 30-35 cm between plants, and narrow-leaved zinnia, as smaller, will feel better and denser - the distance between the bushes is enough 20-25 centimeters.
The soil for planting a zinnia flower growing seedlings of which was somewhat troublesome should be rich in nutrients and have a neutral reaction. First you need to dig the site well, add humus, sheet soil or compost about a bucket per square meter. You can add one tablespoon of nitrophosphate, potassium sulfate and superphosphate. After fertilizing, the soil is again shallow dug.
The zinnia growing area should be well lit and protected from the wind. Waterlogging or, on the contrary, prolonged drought is completely unacceptable. Two to three times during the whole season, plants need to be fed with organic and mineral fertilizers.
That's it. If you carry out all that this wonderful plant requires of us, then this flower will thank us in full, whether it be zinnia from seeds or grown through seedlings.