Marigold

Description/Breeding Goals:

Cream to buttery yellow, frilly blooms. 

Easy to grow, pest resistant, deer resistant, heat tolerant, and attracts beneficial insects!

Blooms all summer and fall.

These glow in the garden, and make good cut flowers!

Breeder's notes:

These seeds are from a "landrace" population developed at Windfall Flowers over multiple seasons. A landrace begins by growing multiple varieties of a species from multiple sources together and allowing them to cross pollinate. This maximizes diversity in the population (increased diversity means healthier plants!). From this diverse population, the healthiest and most beautiful plants are selected to harvests seeds from for the next generation. Over multiple generations, this process creates a population (a landrace) that is strong, healthy, well adapted to the local climate (hot, dry summers) and fits a certain aesthetic scheme.

The seeds from this population will not produce uniform, identical plants. It will produce a diverse range of plants from which you can select your favorites!

Details:

• Approx. 25 seeds
• Tagetes erecta; (African Marigold)
  
• Open pollinated
• Annual
  
• Start indoors 4-6 weeks before the last frost or direct sow after last frost
  
• Germination in 5-10 days at 75-80 F
  
• Plant in full sun
• Pinching is recommended to increase branching
• Space 9-12 inches
• Approx. 18-24 inches tall