It was the rains fault - October 18th, 2006 at 07:04 PM
All summer I've been passing by a McDonald's that has the most incredible RED zinnia-like flowers or really short stems. But the flowers are huge and just full of petals. Tuesday while I was out walking in the rain without a coat I saw that the blooms were dead and no one had dead headed them. So I took one flower head. And the seeds are just like the zinnia seeds. My question is are there any short stemmed but big flower varieties of zinnia? Or are they some closely related type of flower? They are beautiful and I hope to grow at least one cluster next year.