Zinnia elegans Crestar! Mix seeds
Zinnia elegans Crestar! Mix seeds
Zinnia x elegans Crestar! Mix
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Description
Zinnia elegans ‘Crestar! Mix’, or the scabious-flowered zinnia, brings together orange, salmon, peach, pink, red, yellow, and cream flowers with large heads, with a charmingly "frizzy" centre. The plants flower tirelessly from summer to autumn in beds, borders, and large pots, and their flowers last a long time in a vase. Awarded in 2025, ‘Crestar! Mix’ is among the best zinnia mixes for the garden and for cut flower arrangements.
A member of the Asteraceae family, Zinnia elegans (synonym: Zinnia violacea) is native to the high plateaus and warm plains from Mexico to Nicaragua. This species colonises sunny fallow land, embankments, and fields. Zinnia elegans is an annual: it completes its entire life cycle in one season, then dies.
‘Crestar! Mix’ has been distinguished by the All-America Selections 2025 and Fleuroselect Approved Novelty 2025. It is a horticultural mix that produces a high proportion of double heads, consisting of a wide crown of external ligules surrounding a very well-developed central disc, forming a pom-pom shape. Each plant forms an upright, branching clump 45 to 60 cm tall and 25–30 cm wide within a few weeks. The angular stems are robust and hollow; the medium green foliage features lanceolate to ovate, entire, slightly rough, 6 to 10 cm long leaves. The inflorescences are solitary heads 7 to 10 cm in diameter. Depending on the plant, they come in yellow, orange, salmon, red, white and cream; the first wave of flowers concentrates the greatest number of double heads. Flowering spreads from June to October provided faded stems are regularly removed. After pollination by insects, seeds form, which can be harvested to sow the following spring.
Zinnia ‘Crestar! Mix’ can be planted en masse in a large flower bed or in large containers. It can also be grown in the vegetable garden for cut flowers. You can pair it with fine ornamental grasses like Pennisetum 'Black Beauty', Cosmos ‘Sensation Purity’ and dwarf dahlias such as 'Gallery Sisley' or ‘Gallery Pablo’. To make cut flower arrangements, cut the stems when the external ligules (petals) are fully open and leave 2–3 leaves on the stem.
Zinnias were cultivated in Mexico long before their spread to Europe in the 18th century. They quickly found their way into cottage gardens because of their prolonged flowering and the ease with which they produce seeds that can be resown year after year.
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Zinnia
x elegans
Crestar! Mix
Asteraceae
Cultivar or hybrid
Planting and care
Sow Zinnia elegans Crestar! Mix seeds directly outdoors in May, once the soil has warmed. Choose a location in full sun on moist, well-drained soil, well-worked, weeded and loosened beforehand. Sow the seeds at a depth of 3 mm in holes spaced 30 cm apart. Water regularly, especially during dry periods. Germination typically takes 7 to 14 days. When the zinnia seedlings are large enough to handle, thin them out to space the plants 30 cm apart.
You can also sow indoors from March to April at a temperature of 15-25°C. After sowing, keep the surface of the compost moist, but not waterlogged, and expose your sowing to light, which promotes germination. When the young plants are large enough to handle, transplant them and grow them in cooler conditions.
When the plants are well-developed and all risk of frost has passed, acclimatise them gradually to outdoor conditions for 10-15 days before planting outside in their final position. Zinnia elegans are easy plants to grow in the sun, in well-drained to dry soils, fairly rich, even clayey. They are plants susceptible to powdery mildew in humid climates, especially if they do not have good air circulation around them. They do well in climates with long, hot, dry summers. They are not hardy at all.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
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In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a (East Coast and Midlands: Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Portlaoise). It will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the north-west (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Westport), delay planting by 1 to 2 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 1 to 2 weeks in autumn compared to the dates given, preferably choosing periods without strong winds.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (Wicklow Mountains, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, Connemara, Killarney), it is best to plant in spring (April–May) or autumn (September–October), avoiding periods of waterlogged soil in winter and strong winds, which pose the main risk to newly planted trees in these areas.
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a, such as the East Coast and Midlands, including Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny and Portlaoise.
This will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the northwest (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal and Westport), it will be delayed by one to two weeks compared to the given dates, due to stronger Atlantic winds and less spring sunshine.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (the Wicklow Mountains, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Connemara and Killarney), flowering will be delayed by two to three weeks. Flowering mainly occurs between May and July, with the limiting factors being less frost and more of the excessive humidity, strong winds and lack of sunshine that are characteristic of these areas.