Plant a Marigold in Your Next Flowerbed Design...

About Marigolds

Choose the Marigold annual bedding plant for immediate vibrant and long lasting color in the flowerbed garden design. Besides the first rate popularity of the Impatiens annual plant, Marigolds seem a good runner up. My husband Jim absolutely loves the instant color and staying power of the blooms. The more you deadhead the annual, the more buds appear. The above image is from my garden taken September 6, 2009.

How to Grow Marigolds

We love these annuals and unfortunately, so do the black birds. They enjoy ripping apart the opened blooms in order to feather (clean) themselves. So, if you ever see your Marigolds in pieces around your flower bed...don't blame the rabbits or squirrels.

Now, after having said that, if you see the heads part eaten or gone all together...its the rabbits. My temporary front flowerbed has been disseminated by my fuzzy bunny. We planted the African variety and Spikes late in the season and in no time the annuals blooms were eaten off and the Spikes chewed right down to the ground!

I have now positioned several closed plastic containers containing soaked cotton balls of Coyote and Fox Urine. Like a miracle, the new buds have not been eaten and the Spikes are growing once again.

There are several varieties but I plant the shorter Durango Yellow and the Aurora Light Yellow:

These sun loving annuals are not fussy on soil type, fertilizer or watering. They seem to thrive in wet conditions or drought. Pest rarely bother this annual and I can only assume its the odd flower scent.

As you can see in the above image, bees are very attracted to this annual and its nothing for me to have dozens buzzing around while I deadhead. Even the butterflies enjoy making a 'pit' stop.

The African or French varieties are usually the annual plants that are the companion plant to other annual or perennials. They look great matched to:

Check out my Site Index Page for a listing of additional annuals and perennials to plant in your flower garden design.

Marigold General Features:

• the Durango Yellow grows 8" to 15", in full sun
• the Aurora Light Yellow, a semidouble bloom grows 12", in full sun
• do well in hot dry areas
• deadhead the spent blooms
• plants have a pungent scent that many do not like
• good for containers and in flower beds
• because they seem to repel insects, many gardeners plant them around their vegetables
• not bothered by pests
• bloom until frost
• attracts bees

Above is the Marigold accompanied by the Cutleaf Shrub and the Red Potunia.

The image on the left is the Durango Yellow, while the image of the right is the Aurora Light Yellow.

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