Zinnia elegans ‘Meteor’ is the kind of flower that makes a garden feel instantly lively—bright, bold, and buzzing with visitors. This organic, open-pollinated zinnia produces vibrant single blooms around 3″ wide on strong stems that reach roughly 30–40″ tall, creating an easy, upright splash of color in beds, borders, and cutting gardens. Plant a patch and you’ll see why zinnias are a warm-season crop: they thrive in summer heat, keep blooming with regular picking, and add that cheerful “just-cut” look to bouquets all season long.
Variety Details
Botanical name:Zinnia elegans
Plant type: Annual
Growth habit: Upright
Crop category: Flower seed
Flower character: Zinnia elegans ‘Meteor’ is the kind of flower that makes a garden feel instantly lively—bright, bold, and buzzing with visitors.
Product format: Seed packet
Sowing & Growing
Light: Full Sun
Planting season: Spring
Starting location: Direct Sow
Recorded soil pH: 5.5 – 7.0
Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Meteor Zinnia and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.
In the garden, ‘Meteor’ is a steady performer.
The open, single flower form makes nectar and pollen more accessible, which means more butterflies and other pollinators stopping by.
Place Meteor Zinnia where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.
