Marigold

Marigolds are a fantastic garden plant or i thought it was a plant untill i was looking at them in my gardening book last week where i discovered that they are not actually classified as a plant but as a herb although i still dont understand why. Marigolds produce lovely flowers that are available in yellow burnt orange or red, they look and smell beautiful in your garden or cut in a vase. You can either propogate them from seed in a green house in late febuary to give an early flower or plant them as i do directly into the soil in may after the risk of frost has gone. There are two varietys available, dwarfs which i believe are french ...

While I was pregnant with my son a few years ago, I took maternity leave six weeks prior to giving birth, this meant I was home with no other children to look after for six lovely weeks in the months of March and April. I had to find something to fill my days other than daytime TV and this is when I began my love of Marigolds and started to fill my greenhouse with seedlings. I started doing seedlings as I had planted a lot of Marigold plants from Homebase the year before and my mum-in-law had shown me how to collect the seeds from the heads after the flower dies, so I had a tin full of Marigold seeds just waiting to be ...

Marigold if someone said have you any marigolds in your garden I would say yes, but would I mean tagetees the Mexican, African or French marigold? The Glenionis segetun the corn marigold or the calendula the pot marigold? These are all members of the Asteracea family. I might of course mean the marsh marigold Caltha palustris family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family) I have had a marsh marigold in a pond where I lived a few years ago, and I have had tagetees growing in the garden. The picture that is on this site is of a calendula called marigold or pot marigold. The marigold grows to about 50cm tall the plant spreads about 40cm. It has simple ...