08/17/2026
Wishing you a spectacular day from
The Zinnias!🌸
Did you know?🤔
There are nearly two dozen species of zinnias, along with many more cultivars, and they’re part of the aster family.
Zinnias are most common in Mexico, but range from the American Southwest to South America. Popular with butterflies and hummingbirds, they’ve become favorites in gardens.
Colorful, vibrant, and resilient, the flowers bloom all summer long.
Like so many flowers, zinnias were named for a botanist. In this case, it’s Johann Gottfried ZInn, who lived and worked during the 1700s.
His surname comes from the German word for tin, and indicates a metalworker.
Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus chose to honor Zinn with the flower name. Linnaeus cataloged living things, inventing the system we now call binomial nomenclature.🌱
