French Marigold

Just as you'd expect from something called French, these marigolds are the fancy ones. French marigolds tend to be frilly and some boast a distinctive "crested eye." They grow roughly 8-12 inches high with a chic, neat, little growth habit and elegant dark green foliage.

They do best in full sun with moist, well-drained soil and will flower all summer long. They may reseed, coming back year after year, in spots where they're happy.

Light:

Sun

Plant Type:

Annual

Plant Height:

8-12 inches tall

Plant Width:

6-8 inches wide

Landscape Uses:

Containers,Beds & Borders

Special Features:

Flowers,Fragrant,Dried Flowers,Drought Tolerant,Deer Resistant,Easy to Grow

Top Varieties

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Disco Queen marigold

(Tagetes patula 'Disco Queen') bears orange-red flowers ringed in yellow on long-blooming plants that grow 1 foot tall and wide.
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Durango Red marigold

(Tagetes patula 'Durango Red') produces orange-red flowers all summer long on plants that grow 1 foot tall and wide.
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Little Devil Fire marigold

(Tagetes patula 'Little Devil Fire') bears double red-and-yellow flowers on compact plants that grow only 8 inches tall and wide.
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Striped Marvel marigold

(Tagetes patula 'Striped Marvel') offers bold burgundy-and-gold striped blossoms on 2-foot mounded plants.
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Yellow Gate marigold

(Tagetes patula 'Yellow Gate') bears 3-inch-wide blooms atop rounded, 10- to 12-inch-tall plants.
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Garden Plans

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Large Summer Sunny Border
An Eye-Catching Kitchen Garden Plan
Hot-Color Flower Garden Plan
A Garden of Salad Greens
Annual Garden for Full Sun
Easy Children's Vegetable Garden Plan
Summer Butterfly Garden Plan

Plant It With

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Bidens

Bidens is such a rugged plant, it'll bloom happily while draped across hot pavement. It's great along a front edge with marigolds standing up behind.

Moss rose

Charming moss roses make a colorful, carefree carpet underneath French marigolds.

Zinnia

It takes bold blooms to hold their own up next to marigolds, and zinnias are ready for the job. Zinnias appreciate the same kind of garden environment -- sunny and well-drained soil -- expand the color range that marigolds offer.

Propagation

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Seed