This is my first year sowing Zinnias directly too. In the past I put them into little peat pellets, let them grow a couple weeks and then put them out. They where always magnificent, the envy of the neighbourhood! Then, last year we where selling the house, and I forgot to get them started. Around June, the agent told me that I needed more "colour" in the garden, so off to the nursery I went to buy my sure fire Zinnias, already started for me! I spent a fortune on them, they where in 4 or 5 inch pots, and almost 8 inches high when I planted them and the result was... PITIFUL! Those poor flowers struggled and clumg for dear life the whole growing season! So, I have become a big believer that direct sown, or sown very closely after germinating is indeed best! since you have so many seeds, I would perhaps throw down some seed when you think you "might" get away with it. but hold some back for the next few weeks, and overseed... This way if frost does get the first bunch, you will have more to try! I have not adivce for birds, but if the seed is burried or raked in, chances are I would think they would leave it alone. As for frost, my mother lives in a zone 1. (Yeah, not a typo). The thing all the old ladies do with their plants, because they do manage to grow things in those 50-75 days they can... is throw a blanket over anything that is frost sensitive for the night if the weather threatens. They all keep a stack of "garden blankets" handy. It is very easy then to cover large areas, quickly, with little fussing! And has worked with excellent results for as long as they can remember!

From the American Daffodil Society at the link below: (Daffodils replenish their bulb for about six weeks after they bloom. The bulbs should be watered for about this long after blooming. The leaves should not be cut off or blocked from sun until they start to lose their green and turn yellow. This signifies the completion of the bulb rebuilding process.) Your tulip foliage looks like it can be cut off now. Sue Here is a link that might be useful: ADS-Daffodils Not Blooming?

You'll have zinnias from sowing their seed, that much you can count on. ;) Not likely you will get exactly the same height or color range from all seedlings, they will have cross pollinated - if your plants were grown from hybrid seed, they may not have come true even if you were growing only one color. Here is a link that might be useful: Photo ripe pod and zinnia seeds

OMG opqdan. I suggest that the next time you ask a question you also include a list of acceptable and not acceptable answers. I assumed wrongly that you were open to any and all answers. I suggest that if you are sensitive to answers that you do not ask questions. and if you do ask questions that you will just have to be open to the answers that are provided. thinking and love are opposed to each other. thinking will always decide to not love. thinking has no idea what love is. I suggest you stop thinking and try loving. everything you wrote came from your thinking. it has nothing to do with the love inside of me. all the judgements you make about me are always judgements about yourself. All that you wrote was a way for you to see what you need to spiritually heal inside of yourself. remember rule #1. It is always always impossible for any person to ever judge another person. we are always judging ourself. besides we are all ONE. so when you look at me, you are really seeing yourself. You are my spiritual brother in Oneness with me through Love. Please embrace everything that has happened here as you will then have great spiritual progress. for I have come here in Love so that you may look upon me to show you what you need to heal. the spiritually enlightened know at all times that every word I have said to you, you have asked me to say to you. the feelings you feel are the feelings you wanted to feel. for these are the feelings you need to spiritually heal. and feeling them give you the opportunity to heal them when you decide and embrace that I DID NOT DO WHAT YOU THINK I DID. Peace and Spiritual Love O Nut