But this isn't even their best feature. The most amazing thing is that these tightly-packed petals seem to actually repel rain, making Moonstruck the most weather-resistant, long-lasting Marigold you can grow!
In humid summer climates, moisture can be the enemy of Marigolds, and the late-afternoon rainstorms that many regions experience all summer can leave the blooms looking bedraggled. But not Moonstruck! These lovely flowers stay tight, fresh, and colorful no matter what the weather chooses to do. So even if you love cutting Marigolds for the vase, you should consider a garden planting of Moonstruck as well, just to show off!
This plant reaches only 12 to 15 inches high in bloom and 8 to 10 inches wide. Very well-branched, it flowers to heavily that the blooms actually jostle for position, and the foliage is nowhere to be seen during bloom season.
Marigold is one of the easiest of all seeds to start, and Moonstruck makes a fine choice for beginning gardeners and children as well as experienced green thumbs. Direct-sow into the soil when it warms in spring, or start indoors in your Bio Dome or seed flat. You just can't go wrong with Moonstruck! And if you like these yellow blooms, take a look at golden Orange! Packet is 25 seeds.
Vigorous and floriferous summer-flowering plants to be used as filler in borders and containers, as bedding and edging, and for cut flowers. The green foliage is smooth textured, deeply cut in a fern-like manner, and pungent. Tagetes erecta, African Marigold, grows 3 feet tall with 2-5 inch, carnation-like, double-petaled, yellow-orange flower heads. Tagetes patula, French Marigold, is lower growing from 6-24 inches tall with 11/2-2 inch, single- or double-petaled flowers that are yellow or orange and often marked with red. Tagetes filifolia, Irish Lace, grows 6-12 inches tall with tiny, white flowers and foliage that is even more finely cut than the above two species
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
But this isn't even their best feature. The most amazing thing is that these tightly-packed petals seem to actually repel rain, making Moonstruck the most weather-resistant, long-lasting Marigold you can grow!
In humid summer climates, moisture can be the enemy of Marigolds, and the late-afternoon rainstorms that many regions experience all summer can leave the blooms looking bedraggled. But not Moonstruck! These lovely flowers stay tight, fresh, and colorful no matter what the weather chooses to do. So even if you love cutting Marigolds for the vase, you should consider a garden planting of Moonstruck as well, just to show off!
This plant reaches only 12 to 15 inches high in bloom and 8 to 10 inches wide. Very well-branched, it flowers to heavily that the blooms actually jostle for position, and the foliage is nowhere to be seen during bloom season.
Marigold is one of the easiest of all seeds to start, and Moonstruck makes a fine choice for beginning gardeners and children as well as experienced green thumbs. Direct-sow into the soil when it warms in spring, or start indoors in your Bio Dome or seed flat. You just can't go wrong with Moonstruck! And if you like these yellow blooms, take a look at golden Orange! Packet is 25 seeds.
Vigorous and floriferous summer-flowering plants to be used as filler in borders and containers, as bedding and edging, and for cut flowers. The green foliage is smooth textured, deeply cut in a fern-like manner, and pungent. Tagetes erecta, African Marigold, grows 3 feet tall with 2-5 inch, carnation-like, double-petaled, yellow-orange flower heads. Tagetes patula, French Marigold, is lower growing from 6-24 inches tall with 11/2-2 inch, single- or double-petaled flowers that are yellow or orange and often marked with red. Tagetes filifolia, Irish Lace, grows 6-12 inches tall with tiny, white flowers and foliage that is even more finely cut than the above two species
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.