A favorite amongst novice gardeners and expert green thumbs alike, marigolds have a sunny disposition that brightens up any yard. Marigold (scientific name Tagetes) is a genus of around 50 species.

If you're wondering how to grow marigolds from seed, you're in good company. A favorite in gardens around the world, marigolds are full of color and bring a burst of summer cheer to any window box, ...

Marigolds make easy-care bedding flowers and container plants, plus they can be used for companion planting and cut flowers. While starter plants are often sold at garden centers in spring, growing ...

Marigolds can be grown indoors before the last frost or directly sown after the danger of frost has passed outdoors. For thriving marigolds, place them under full sun, water them daily, trim leggy ...

No one is quite clear why Downton Abbey’s Lady Edith chose the name Marigold for her daughter’s name, but naming baby girls after flowers was common in England during the 1920s. I’d like to believe ...

WASHINGTON — It's a simple way to help encourage good insects to spend some time in your garden while also keeping bad guys out. Plus, these flowers make your vegetable garden just that much more ...

Cempasúchil (marigold) flowers were planted earlier this year in the backyard of Chula Vista gardeners, the late Maria Elena Castellanos and her husband, Jose Luis Castellanos. May 11, 2025. If you're ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Certain conditions in our landscapes can present ...

Marigolds make a great annual bedding plant. They are also very popular and a well-used annual for the vegetable garden. There is certainly a large variety to choose from for adding to your landscape.

Move over pumpkin spice, it’s cempasúchitl flowers (marigolds) season. Towards the end of October, the flower of the dead will take its place on altars, in graveyards and on tombstones to honor and ...

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak ...