If you are dreaming of creating a garden bursting with color and wildlife, there are some wonderful pairings to bring into your space. When planting zinnias, consider adding coneflowers alongside them ...

As delightful as it can be to grow a colorful flower garden just for yourself, creating one that butterflies, and other pollinators enjoy can be even better. Unfortunately, purchasing plants to fill a ...

Zesty zinnias (Zinnia elegans) are a Louisiana Super Plant for spring 2024. Zinnias are beloved flowers for the garden for their bright, cheerful colors and large flower heads on tall, single stalks.

Last fall, we moved a bunch of small shrubs in the OPC display garden to make room for a rock garden that will be installed next spring. There is a lot of empty space around them, so I plan to grow ...

The past year of gardening has been a labor of love for families all across the Midwest. This year was the first year I had ever planted a large garden. The idea of this garden was in the works for ...

For the past few years, I have reacquainted myself with a childhood favorite flower, zinnias. I had been too busy trying to grow perennials (that the voles kept eating), and have an English-looking ...

This has been one tough growing year for those of us working in the OPC Stone House Garden in Rochester. Cold and then heat and drought have dogged us all spring, and according to weather ...

Zinnias are one of the easiest summer annuals to grow, producing a variety of vibrant flowers. Zinnias need full sun, good airflow, and moderate feeding with a balanced fertilizer. They can become ...

Gentle pruning encourages these hard-working plants to deliver wave after wave of blooms. Zinnias are gorgeous flowering annuals that attract butterflies to the garden and make excellent cut flowers.

It is the time of the year in the cut-flower garden that you can grow both snapdragons and zinnias. The snapdragons are the main winter annual, and the zinnias are the main summer annual. If you have ...