How To Create A Stunning Floral Teacup With Zinnias

Display Your Zinnia Blooms

Do you have a ton of little zinnias?  Zinnias are great for cutting and the flower heads last a long time in bouquets.  These are perfect for filling a little teacup!

Pour a small amount of water into a pretty teacup.  The teacup can be plain white or a decorative cup that will coordinate, contrast, or match the colors of your flowers.

Add thin strips of scotch tape in a grid pattern.  I cut the tape down the length of the tape in the middle to create two thinner strips of tape.

Snip the stems and arrange the flower in the cups using the tape grid to help support the flower stems.  Make several of these little bouquets and line the cups and saucers down the center of your table for a cute centerpiece or at each place setting!

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But to be able to display lots of zinnias, you will have to grow them yourself!

 

Save Dried Zinnia Flower  Heads

Last year, I bought Thumbelina Zinnia flower seeds and planted them in the flower garden.  These flowers are so dang cute!  The Thumbelina Zinnia flowers grow about 18-inches high and have small flower heads.  The Zinnia is fast-growing and gives an abundance of flowers.

 

Zinnias will bloom all summer and into the Fall. Once the flower heads dry, snip them off with scissors and place them in Ziploc plastic bags.  You can save the dried flower heads from your arrangements and the dried heads from your garden.  Make sure they are dry or you will have moldy flower heads.  Store in a dry place over the winter.  In spring, take them out and plant the seeds in your flower gardens.

 

How To Grow Zinnias

Plan now to plant some of these easy to grow beautiful flowers in your spring flower beds and pots next year!

Spread a 3-inch layer of compost over a flower bed and work into the soil about 6-inches deep.  The bed where you plant the zinnia seeds needs to receive full sun.  This means that it needs to receive six full hours of unfiltered sun.  Zinnia seeds germinate when the temperature reaches 70°.

Plant the seeds about 6-inches apart and at a depth of twice the thickness of the seeds.

Mist with water and keep the soil damp until the seeds germinate.

Once the plants are established, avoid getting water on the leaves, the plants can develop mildew problems.

Butterflies Love The Zinnias

 

Why should you plant these simple flowers in your garden?  Aside from creating lovely floral teacup arrangements, another reason is butterflies and birds love the zinnias.  In the last few weeks, this has become abundantly clear to me.  The butterflies are flitting from one zinnia to another.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didn’t realize how many would be attracted to the zinnias until this year.  Of course, since the seeds from last year were saved and planted, this year we have an abundant supply of these blossoms.

Birds Love The Zinnias

 

As Dave and I sat on the deck at the end of the day on several occasions, we began to see goldfinches on the zinnias.  We watched as these birds perch on the stems and begin to pluck the petals from the flowers.  They eat the seeds! 

The hummingbirds are also visiting the zinnias!  I haven’t captured one in a shot with the camera thus far but summer is not over yet.

Check out this post on some more ideas for mini bouquets ►mini bouquets.

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