I just love zinnias. They must be my favorite annual. Just bloom and bloom until frost, great colors and easy to start. So I have a habit of planting them around the daylily beds.
These in the picture are State Fair Zinnias that I bought as started plants early spring and planted in the small terrace that is above my daylily plateau raised bed in the back yard.
So I had also planted some plants in my front yard in the belgium block mini terraces running across. They had daffs for spring. The daff folliage fell on top of the zinnias and killed most of them. So I waited until the daff folliage died and direct sowed in there. Sucess! There are small seedlings coming up all over the place. So my plan of having a zinnia patch in back of those front rows of daylilies just might work out yet.
Not having sucess over on the other side of the front yard were I also had scattered seed at the same time. These never came up. So today I planted some I had started in seed trays and also scattered some more seeds in there in back and around the plantlets. Watered both sides well. I hope these come up and the seedlings take.
I really like the look I get of the zinnias blooming in back of the daylilies. Plus of course they give color later in the year when there are no daylily blooms. When they bloom at the same time it is just even more of a riot of color.
