Hybridizers: It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 4, 1 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
Corey,

A Google Images search for Lilliput zinnias gives quite a few pictures, not all of which are representative.

http://www.google.com/images?as_q=lilliput zinnia &hl=en&biw...

An Images search for pom pom zinnia also yields some similar flower forms.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&as_st=y&tbs=isch:1&&sa=X&...

I'm personally not a fan of that flower type, but that is purely a matter of personal preferences and a lot of people do like it. It is one of the classic zinnia flower forms.

Incidentally, we had a killing freeze the morning of October 29th, so I will be showing pictures taken in the last week or two for a while, and "same day" pictures of zinnia blooms won't be available for a while. I took the humidity dome cover off of a tray of zinnia cuttings this morning, since I could see through the "clear" sides of the pots that roots had formed. So my first crop of indoor zinnias for this Winter is beginning to "hatch". This recent (pre-freeze) bloom is intermediate between what I call "echinacea flowered" and "sunflower flowered".

ZM