Hybridizers: It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 6, 4 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
Hi Robin,

Thanks for the kind words. With respect to those nice looking real Dahlias, many of them have wide petals. Not all of them, there are \"cactus flowered dahlias\" as well as \"cactus flowered zinnias\". My liking for wide petals in zinnias is a relatively new thing. My original zinnia breeding goal (back in 2005 when I first took up zinnia breeding seriously when we lived in Maine) was spider flowered zinnias. Zinnias with long thin petals. I thought that tipping long thin petals with white or a light color would add an interesting enhancement. These pictures show some of my spider flowered wannabes. More later.

ZM