Zinnias Are Our Thing!
We breed specialty color zinnias on our little farm in East Texas.
How to Hand Pollinate Zinnias
How it all Started
Our journey with breeding zinnias started about 8 years ago when Garett’s father gave us zinnia seeds from his garden. He had been growing and saving his own seed for decades and thanks to open pollination he had some amazing colors we had never seen before. One of the colors was a butter yellow that he said was his favorite. Marion wanted to isolate this color for him and so started our first colorway that we lovingly call Hal’s yellow after him. Since then we’ve added dozens of new colors some of which you can see below.
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Crem brûlée
This colorway is still in development we’re isolating more of a beige/taupe gene in this line. This one was crossed with our apricot colorway.
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Apricot
Marion grew up roaming her grndparent’s apricot orchards and this colorway reminds her of the beautifully blushed fruits she used to devour on the family farm.
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Double Bubble
One of our largest zinnias starts off a beautiful bright pink and fades out into a pale peachy pink.
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Sweet 16
Powder pink with a delicately curled petal.
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lilac Beauty
This was our favorite color zinnia for many years you’ll find a lot of it in lighter shades in our 2022 pastel seed fundraiser packs but it has been retired for 2023.
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Crem brûlée
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Mauvalous
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Sunset
Our best mistake yet! A beautiful color changing zinnia.
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Mango
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Sunset
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Raspberry
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Apricot Parfait
From the blog
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Pastel Fundraiser Seeds have Shipped.
Hi guys! Just an FYI if you ordered the fundraiser seeds for the delectable pastel zinnias before today your seeds shipped with whatever else you might have ordered despite the...
Pastel Fundraiser Seeds have Shipped.
Hi guys! Just an FYI if you ordered the fundraiser seeds for the delectable pastel zinnias before today your seeds shipped with whatever else you might have ordered despite the...
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Farewell to our lilac zinnias
This year we have big plans for breeding and sadly one of those is to weed out our lilac and violet toned zinnias. These zinnias have been our favorite for...
Farewell to our lilac zinnias
This year we have big plans for breeding and sadly one of those is to weed out our lilac and violet toned zinnias. These zinnias have been our favorite for...
