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

Zen_Man wrote:
Thanks, Lucy,

I usually cull single zinnias, but occasionally I see a single zinnia that for one reason or another seems "right" to me. Actually, a lot of the Whirligig strain of zinnias are single, and they have the appearance of a daisy or a gaillardia and they can look fine in the landscape or garden. And some people might consider my echinacea flowered zinnias to be single.

On a somewhat different note, this picture shows a current single zinnia that is a recombinant with trumpet-petaled genes, and I kind of like it. The individual petals remind me a bit of pitcher plants, although that little beetle peeking out of one pitcher petal kind of proves that this isn't a carnivorous plant. I'm not quite sure what I want to call this zinnia. But it does pique my curiosity as to what surprises I can expect next in the recombinations with trumpet petal genes.

ZM