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Calendula (Pot Marigold) (Calendula officinalis)

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Botanical name: Calendula officinalis • Bloom season: Spring through fall‍ ‍• Bloom color: Orange and yellow‍ ‍• Host plant (elsewhere in North America): Virginian tiger moth‍

Orange and yellow petals with a slightly resinous scent, blooming from spring right through to hard frost, and often through a light one. The petals are edible and the flowers close at night and reopen in the morning. Its value lies in its duration: very few plants supply pollen and nectar across the entire season the way calendula does.

Botanical name: Calendula officinalis • Bloom season: Spring through fall‍ ‍• Bloom color: Orange and yellow‍ ‍• Host plant (elsewhere in North America): Virginian tiger moth‍

Orange and yellow petals with a slightly resinous scent, blooming from spring right through to hard frost, and often through a light one. The petals are edible and the flowers close at night and reopen in the morning. Its value lies in its duration: very few plants supply pollen and nectar across the entire season the way calendula does.

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Plant Characteristics

Botanical Name: Eschscholzia californica

Common Name: California Poppy

Native: Native

Sun: Full Sun

Water: Low

Bloom Time: Spring to summer

Bloom Color: Orange

Pollinators: Bees

Deer Resistant: Yes

Mature Size: W 12" x H 12"-18"

Soil: Sharply drained; poor, sandy soil, resents rich ground

Plant Type: Annual to short-lived perennial

USDA Zones: 6 to 10

Spread Habit: Self-sows freely

Available As: Live plant

Native Region: California Floristic Province (Mojave & Great Basin edges)

Host Plant (Elsewhere in North America): Mormon metalmark, dotted blue, Plebejus acmon, Plebejus neurona

Growing Notes

Full sun and sharply drained, poor, sandy soil. It actively resents rich ground, where it makes leaves instead of flowers. Direct-sow rather than transplanting, since the taproot makes it a poor mover. In Northern Nevada a fall sowing gives the strongest spring display, with the seed getting winter moisture and cold.

•   Water: Low

•   Sun: Full Sun

•   Soil: Sharply drained; poor, sandy soil, resents rich ground

•   Mature size: W 12" x H 12"-18"

Maintenance

Let it self-sow, as a poppy planting does; a stand deadheaded to tidiness will vanish in two seasons. Pull the plants when they brown out in midsummer, after they've shed their seed. Do not fertilize or water once established. It will move around the garden from year to year, which is part of its charm.