faded flowers

Zinnias in the garden, in the vase and for the future.

The more flowers you pick, the more you stimulate flowering. In the vase, put your zinnias preferably on a small layer of water.

Remove overblown flowers as soon as possible, therefor all energy goes to new flowers, and you have constant bloom.

However, if you want to harvest seeds to sow next year, you need to wait until the flowers finish blooming and allow the seeds to ripen. Just make sure to harvest the zinnia seeds after a few sunny days, whereby the seed heads are dry and not soaking wet.

Don't sow zinnias in the same place two years in a row.

I put these faded zinnias in a vase, and will let them dry and keep the seeds for next year. ... and I also like faded flowers.

splendid zinnias

Look at the splendid color combination of pale orange and lilac. This stunning zinnia is by far my favorite summer flower of the season.

It's the Zinnia elegans Forecast, a mixture of single and double flowers in all kind of exotic colors of purple, pink, lilac, orange, salmon, yellow and vanilla shades.

A few days after picking, the colors fade a bit and the zinnias are even more spectacular.

These ones are growing in the Villa Augustus garden. Note to self; I will definitely sow the seeds in my own garden next year.

acting like citizens

New York City - 8th of September - 15189 steps

Espresso at Citizen M
Subway to Union Square
Union Square Greenmarket
American breakfast at The Coffee Shop (old-style diner decor)
ABC Home
Fishs Eddy
5th Avenue
Chelsea Flea Market W25th Street
Broadway
Lunch at Tacombi
Check out Citizen M
Yellow cab
JFK
stopover in Iceland

On day FIVE we acted like New York citizens in the weekend. We visited the great organic Greenmarket on the Union Square and afterwards we had an American breakfast with pancakes and omelet at the iconic Coffee Shop around the corner.

In the afternoon we went to the Chelsea flea market and had a Mexican lunch at Tacombi in the Empire State Building. At the end of the afternoon we picked up our suitcases at the hotel and took the yellow cab to JFK airport. Those five days in New York were unforgettable and we have not seen everything, so we will definitely go back!

Falling in love with NYC is easy...

colorpop

Zinnas in nature-neon colors pop on this first rainy day since weeks.

The woman who's peeking though the flowers, is a print we made from a street art photo, shot in Palermo during the Manifesta 12 in June. The artist of the original work is BR1.