Description: With sunny and cheerful little blooms in tangerine and lemon stripes, Bambino boasts short and perfectly tidy mounds reaching just 10 inches tall. These compact plants are covered in blooms, making each a small burst of sunshine, ideal for mixed plantings, containers, and bedding.
Description: A regal selection, these ruffled, fully double blooms have a gilded appearance and reach an impressive 2- to 3- inches across. Petals have a rich golden center, bordered in cadmium yellow. Plants are dwarf; they stand compact at about 10 inches tall and 6 to 10 inches wide. Ideal for beds, borders, or companion planting in vegetable gardens.
Marigold Seeds, Colossus Red Gold Bicolor:
Description: Annual. Invite this bold French marigold into your garden and you will be rewarded with masses of gilded blooms that have natural pest-repelling qualities! Large bicolored blooms of red and gold are simply stunning. This is the ultimate useful flower; the petals are edible, and it can repel garden pests such as whiteflies and nematodes. Try interplanting this beauty among your vegetable crops!
Marigold Seeds, Crackerjack Mix:
Description: The giant African type that is popular with gardeners coast to coast; the big double blooms come in shades of lemon yellow to deep orange, and the 30-inch plants are profuse.
Description: Cheerful, 2-inch, single-petaled blooms in a fun mix of yellows, reds, oranges, and golds. This splendid blend adds sunshine to beds, borders, and the vegetable patch. Known as an early bloomer, these plants are quite short and tidy at just 9 inches tall by 6-10 inches wide. This variety is very floriferous, and each plant is jam packed with blocks of color, reminiscent of a checkered disco dance floor!
Description: (Tagetes erecta). Blazing yellow blooms on unique short dwarf plants. These outstanding African marigolds were bred in Britain to withstand and thrive in wet conditions, but they perform equally as well during the sizzling hot heights of summer. One of the best open-pollinated African marigolds available on the market. With an average height of 11 to 12 inches, these smaller compact plants offer a wonderful alternative to the larger African marigold types that reach heights of 28-38 inches. Their lemon-yellow blooms are edible and have a citrusy zing, perfect for decorating cakes or livening up salads with bursts of color.
Marigold Seeds, Gypsy Sunshine:
Description: Upbeat yellow blooms on dwarf, bushy plants are ideal for beds, borders, and containers. The pretty golden-yellow, double flowers make a magnificent natural dye for food and fabrics!
Description: The brightest orange marigolds we have seen! This massive and magnificent African marigold, selected by the late, Kees Sahin, a famous Dutch flower breeder. Sahin had set out to select the most vivid orange color to make a truly memorable marigold, the result is a high octane tangerine bloom that really pops! A joy in the garden and perfect for kitchen uses too! The robust and productive plants stand 1.5-2 feet tall and are smothered in full and fluffy electric orange blooms, each reaching an impressive 2.5 to 3 inches across.
Marigold Seeds, Kilimanjaro White:
Description: A stellar, crystal-white headed marigold that is sure to amaze! This variety has lovely 3-inch creamy-white blooms that really stand out from the traditional gold, yellow and bronze marigolds! White marigolds were long in the making; in fact, Burpee Seed Company spent 56 years of searching and breeding before finding success. After years of trying, David Burpee offered $10,000 to the first home gardener who sent in the right seeds to help make a real white variety; thousands of gardeners responded for years. One lady, Alice Vonk of Sully, Iowa, sent seeds for 21 years, and in 1975, Burpee awarded her the coveted prize for her work—after the company had spent more than five decades and $250,000 testing during the contest years. Now there are several white varieties, including this beauty that was developed by Hem Zaden seed company, on a farm on Mount Kilimanjaro. We love the fluffy white flowers in bouquets.
Marigold Seeds, Linnaeus Burning Embers:
Description: A smoldering and memorable marigold with gracefully wavy stems, and smoky orange and red blooms that resemble embers in a crackling fire. This old variety has long been tended at the Linnaeus Botanical Gardens in Uppsala, Sweden.
Marigold Seeds, Little Hero Fire:
Description: A petite yet bold French marigold. The pincushion blooms with flame colors create a stunning effect like smoldering embers. These tidy plants are tightly packed with 1- to1.5- inch blooms. The dwarf but sturdy plants reach just 10 inches tall and about 12 inches wide.
Description: We love the unique blooms on this dwarf French type! Bronzy red to orange single petals with a bright orange plume of petals at the center. Try planting these special marigolds en masse or along borders for a flaming effect in the garden. Don’t forget that French marigolds are naturally pest resistant and make useful companion plants to things like squash and tomatoes!
Marigold Seeds, Safari Scarlet:
Description: A gleaming carnelian-orange color gives Safari Scarlet an incredible luminescence. Dwarf plants are generously adorned with radiant, anemone-type blooms, making for stunning visual impact in containers, beds, or borders. Plants reach just 8 to 10 inches tall, and about 6 to 8 inches wide with 2-inch blooms.
Marigold Seeds, Safari Tangerine:
Description: Vibrant, nearly 3-inch double-petaled blooms make this citrus-hued French marigold impossible to miss. This compact dwarf variety stands just 10 to 12 inches tall and equally wide, perfectly sized for growing in containers, beds, and borders. This sunny selection was awarded the 1992 Fleuroselect Gold Medal for its earliness, tidy habit, and vivid color. Adds a wonderful color pop to the vegetable garden without out-competing neighboring plants.
Marigold Seeds, Sugar and Spice:
Description: Big blooms like dollops of freshly churned butter are so sunny and cheerful. Beautiful blooms 2 inches across sit atop 16-inch tall plants. Excellent for pots, beds and borders.
Description: (Tagetes lucida). Enjoy this late-blooming marigold in teas and other drinks; a great flavoring for many dishes. The herb was known to Aztec, Maya, and Huichol people, who used it ceremonially and medicinally – as well as for dyes and incense. This old Hispanic heirloom variety is hard to find nowadays, but is still a great garden plant that is easy to grow and quite flavorful, often stepping in as a substitute for tarragon. It can get up to 30 inches tall and bears heads of golden florets in the late summer.
