🌼🌿 Tagetes tenuifolia Yellow – Signet Marigold – 1000 Seeds

Brighten your beds, borders, and veggie patches with the sunny charm of Tagetes tenuifolia Yellow, also known as Signet Marigold. This petite, ferny-leaved annual bursts into masses of golden-yellow blooms, bringing vibrant color, fragrance, and pollinators to any garden space. Not only is it beautiful, but it also plays a valuable role in organic pest management.

🌱 Plant Information:

• Latin Name: Tagetes tenuifolia

• Common Name: Signet Marigold, Golden Marigold

• Plant Type: Annual

• Height: 10–12 inches (25–30 cm)

• Spread: 8–12 inches (20–30 cm)

• Bloom Season: Mid-summer to frost

• Bloom Color: Bright golden-yellow

• Foliage: Fine, feathery green with a citrusy aroma

• Growth Habit: Compact and mounded

🌼 Garden & Functional Uses:

• Excellent border plant or edging for beds and walkways

• Perfect for container gardens and hanging baskets

• Companion plant in vegetable gardens—repels nematodes and aphids

• Edible flowers with a citrus-tang flavor—great in salads and garnishes

• Attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies

• Deer and rabbit resistant due to strong fragrance

• Suitable for herb gardens, wildflower patches, or mass planting for color impact

🌞 Environmental Preferences:

• Soil: Prefers well-drained, light to moderately fertile soil

• pH Range: Neutral to slightly acidic (6.0–7.0)

• Sunlight: Full sun for best blooming

• Water Needs: Low to moderate

• Climate Suitability: Excellent for hot, dry climates and resistant to drought once established

🌿 Additional Notes:

• Often used in permaculture systems and companion planting strategies

• Extremely floriferous with low maintenance requirements

• Does not require deadheading to bloom continuously

• Natural deterrent to some garden pests—makes an ideal organic gardening ally

• Long bloom season provides continuous color and nectar for pollinators