Flowers
Hopi Black Dye Sunflower
Towering stalks, gold petals, and seeds so dark they were used as dye.
$3.7530 seeds
Flowers
Calendula, Resina
Calendula officinalis
Golden petals for salve and salad, blooming from early summer to hard frost.
$3.2550 seeds
Quantity
A high-resin strain selected for herbal use, with sticky calyxes and single-to-semi-double golden blooms. Petals are edible and go into salads, and the whole flower heads infuse into oil for salve. Deadhead — or better, keep harvesting — and it flowers relentlessly until a hard freeze. Self-sows politely and tolerates poor soil and cool weather without complaint.
Where it comes from. Selected from traditional pot marigold for high resin content.
Growing details
- Seeds per packet
- 50 seeds
- Days to maturity
- 55-60 days
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Spacing
- 12 in.
- Planting depth
- 1/4 in.
- Mature size
- 18-24 in.
- Botanical name
- Calendula officinalis