Half Hardy Annuals

In Zinnias, 'Dahlia-flowered' means multi-petaled, piled up, dome-shaped blooms that really do resemble dahlias. 'Dahlia-Flowered Salmon' feature gorgeous, large 8 to 10cm (3 to 4in) salmon-pink blooms. Extremely easy to grow from seed, they provide colour from mid-summer to autumn.

So named for their unique spiky appearance, Cactus Flowered Zinnias have semi double, large blooms each with re-curved, quilled and twisted petals, they bloom in a wide range of colours. Growing 75cm tall, with thick straight stems, they are perfect for a bouquet or for the vase.

A slightly eccentric variety of Giant Cactus Zinnia, 'Señorita' produces wonderful large, peach, cherry and salmon-pink blooms each with ruffled, ribbon-like petals. These reliable plants produce a bumper crop and the more you harvest, the more they bloom, providing colour from mid-summer to autumn.

Years of breeding have brought striking new colours, shapes, sizes, and growing habits to the humble zinnia. Zinnia elegans produces large golden yellow blooms, atop thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when cut. They make wonderful cut flowers and have a long vase life.

Zinnia are back in fashion with a vengeance. They are extremely easy to grow from seed and provide colour from mid-summer to autumn. They are the perfect flower for beginners and are a favourite flower of gardeners and florists around the world. 'Illumination' feature large 10 to 12cm (4 to 5in) pink blooms.

Zinnia elegans 'Isabellina' is a beautiful soft cream-yellow zinnia, this heirloom zinnia originally introduced in 1955. Recently re-introduced, this densely-petaled variety makes a long lasting cut flower. An elegant addition to borders of pastel-hued flowers, or for the white garden. Extremely easy to grow from seed.

Early to flower with improved doubleness over similar types, Zinnia elegans, ‘Macarenia’ produces large double blooms in a unique bi-colour blend. A myriad overlapping blunt-tipped scarlet red petals with contrasting golden tips. Perfect for flower arranging especially in hand tied bouquets.

With a myriad overlapping blunt-tipped scarlet-rose petals with contrasting cream tips, 'Mazurkia' is an award winning variety with improved doubleness that blooms earlier than other zinnias of this type. A ‘cut-and-come-again’ flower, yielding multiple cuts over the season, they will be the star of summer bouquets.

Years of breeding have brought striking new colours, shapes, sizes, and to the humble zinnia. Zinnia elegans 'Polar Bear' feature large 10 to 12cm white blooms. Once popularly called 'youth and old age' because old blooms stay fresh as new blooms open, they grow to 75cm tall with thick straight stems.

An exciting new addition to the Queen Series, Zinnia ‘Queen Lime Orange’ is the most beautiful range of iridescent raspberry, apricot, and smoky peach with a dark cranberry centre. Winner of the Fleuroselect Gold Award - There is no other flower on the market quite like it.

The latest addition to this wonderful series, Zinnia ‘Queen Lime with Blush’ has a wonderful ombré gradient on their petals, the coloration transitions from a soft lime green to a muted dusty raspberry,. An excellent flower for bridging between different colour spectrums.

Zinnia elegans 'Queen Lime' is the solid green sister of 'Queen Red Lime'. In fashionable chartreuse, it is an improvement on the traditional green zinnia ‘Envy’. Fully double, very long-lasting, and fade-resistant, their unusual colour makes a good companion for every other flower in the garden.

‘Queen Pure Orange’ is the first pure colour to join the extremely popular Queen series. The perfect addition to those tones that go well with the long days of summer and gorgeous sunsets. Cut them early for the optimum intriguing colour show, they can last up to two weeks in the vase.

Zinnia elegans 'Scarlet Flame' feature large 10 to 12cm scarlet-red blooms. They'll keep blooming all through a hot season. Growing 75cm tall, with thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when being cut. They make wonderful cut flowers and have a long vase life.

Zinnias are back in fashion with a vengeance. 'State Fair' is a lovely old series of giant dahlia-flowered zinnias. A time tested winner, in a full range of bright uniform colours, it performs well both in the garden and in the vase. Sow successively from March to July for flowering until autumn.

The 'Zinderella’ series is a breakthrough in scabiosa-flowered Zinnia breeding. A unique zinnia, that produces large flowered blossoms that are layered thickly with a stunning crown and contrasting dark centres. Because of this unique new colour 'Zinderella Lilac' has won the Fleuroselect Award.

Zinderella ‘White’ produces unique ivory-white double blooms with so many layers of petals they are often as tall as they are wide. A favourite flower of both gardeners and florists around the world and one of the very easiest annuals to grow from seed, they grow in a flash and bloom heavily from July through to September.

Zinnia 'Benary's Giant Coral' is a long-standing customer favourite. With large, double blossoms that are densely packed with petals in the most fashionable tropical coral-salmon colour. The plants reaching 90 to 120cm tall and the large blooms regularly exceed 10cm wide.