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Benefits of Winter Sowing Seeds. Winter sowing allows you to garden even when there’s snow on the ground and it can help combat those winter blues. Here are a few other benefits: Extends the ...
Calendula officinalis, the pot marigold, common marigold, ruddles, Mary's gold or Scotch marigold, [2] is a flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is probably native to southern Europe, but its long history of cultivation makes its precise origin unknown, and it is widely naturalised .
Calendula (/ k ə ˈ l ɛ n dj uː l ə /) [2] is a genus of about 15–20 species [3] of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae that are often known as marigolds.
Bidens aristosa seeds. Bidens aristosa, known by many common names such as bearded beggarticks, western tickseed, showy tickseed, long-bracted beggarticks, tickseed beggarticks, swamp marigold, and Yankee lice, is an herbaceous, annual plant in the Asteraceae family.
Marigolds come in a variety of colours, but mostly yellows and oranges, flowering in the middle of summer. They can be planted outside when there is risk of frost. They can be purchased from most nurseries, and seeds are readily available in stores. It is often used as a companion plant for its insect-repelling properties. [citation needed]
Tagetes erecta, the Aztec marigold, Mexican marigold, big marigold, cempaxochitl or cempasúchil, [2] [3] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tagetes native to Mexico and Guatemala. [4] Despite being native to the Americas, it is often called the African marigold .
It likely refers to the ease with which plants of this genus come out each year either by the seeds produced in the previous year, or by the stems which regrow from the stump already in place. [ 9 ] The common name in English, marigold, is derived from Mary's gold in honor of the Virgin Mary , a name first applied to a similar plant native to ...
Tithonia diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is commonly known as the tree marigold, [2] Mexican tournesol, Mexican sunflower, Japanese sunflower or Nitobe chrysanthemum. It is native to Mexico and Central America but has a nearly pantropical distribution as an introduced species. [1]