French Marigold
- Botanical Name
- Tagetes patula
- Hardiness
- Tender annual
- Height
- 6 to 15 inches
- Width
- 6 to 15 inches
- Flowers
- Summer to frost: yellow, orange, rust, red; edible, fragrant
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Well drained, tolerates dry
- Planting & Care
- Space plants 6 to 8 inches apart
- Problems
- Spider mites, aphids, aster yellows, leafhoppers, rabbits, woodchucks
- Varieties
- Boy O' Boy Series - 6", shades of maroon, yellow, orange
- Aurora Series - 1', wide-petaled flowers
- Bonanza Series - 2" double flowers in golds and bicolors, 8" plants
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