TAGETES Marigold Bonita Mixed

Species : Tagetes
Latin Name : Tagetes Patula Nana L.
Other usual names : Marigold
Variety : French Marigold - Bonita
Family : Asteraceae, Composeae
Origin : Mexico, South America

Tagetes : French Marigolds are the favorite annual flowers in our gardens easy to grow and they bloom from spring until frost in late fall. Plants are bushy with single or double flowers in a color range from red to mahogany, from yellow to orange, several are striped or bicolored. Their leaves are dark green and finely cut. Used in landscape for borders, color massing, edging, cut flowers and container plants. Sometimes used to repel harmful insects in our gardens.

Seed sowing : From February to Mai
Flowering : Spring to Fall
Hight : Tagetes usually reach 15 to 20 cm.
Exposition : Full Sun

Sowing instructions : Tagetes are best started under chassis or in greenhouse six weeks before planting out, in a well drained soil. Prepare flowerbeds by mixing in pine bark or leaf mold. Transplant seedlings with the size of 4 to 6 cm hights, when there is no more danger of frost leaving them 15 cm apart directly in a sunny place of your garden.

Sowing space : 15 cm between plants
Minimum seed sowing temperature : 18 to 20 °C

Net weight of seeds : 2 gr = +/- 600 graines

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.