Annuals: Zinna time!, 1 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
Arlan,

Your pictures above and elsewhere are inspiring to amateur zinnia breeders like myself. Your gallery of Persian Carpets is most interesting. It looks like you could do some useful breeding just within the Persian Carpets. Thompson & Morgan selected the dwarf Aztec Sunset strain from Persian Carpets over a period of ten years.

http://www.tmseeds.com/product/4294.html

Several of your Persian Carpet specimens are worthy of breeding, including the "atypical" one you pictured above. I really liked several of those in your Persian Carpet gallery, including those with "toothy" petals, and I really like the unusual halo effect of this one:

http://atenkley.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/persian-carpet-0...

I like all kinds of unusual color patterns in zinnias, so I am particularly interested in the pattern in the one above. Several months ago I had an unusual coloration appear in a zinnia. It was actually a tricolor, but you can't see the light purple color at the base of the petals very well.

ZM