French Marigold 'Dainty Marietta' (Tagetes patula) is a charming dwarf cultivar prized for its delicate, single flowers featuring bright yellow petals with distinctive maroon blotches at the center, creating sophisticated bicolor contrast and visual sophistication. This compact variety reaches 12–18 inches in height, making it ideally suited for container gardening, window boxes, and front-of-border placements where taller marigold varieties would overwhelm available space. Despite its diminished stature, 'Dainty Marietta' delivers exceptional floral abundance, with long blooming periods that ensure continuous color from establishment through frost, providing reliable seasonal interest with minimal maintenance. The single flower form, while less showy than double-flowered marigolds, offers refined elegance and superior accessibility for pollinators, making 'Dainty Marietta' an excellent choice for pollinator gardens and landscapes designed to support native bee populations and beneficial insects. These marigolds thrive in full sun and well-draining soil, demonstrating exceptional heat and drought tolerance once established, and develop naturally compact, floriferous growth habits that require minimal pruning or deadheading to maintain attractive appearance. 'Dainty Marietta' performs exceptionally well in mixed containers, raised beds, and dedicated flower borders, where their bicolor blooms create charming focal points and sustained visual interest. Blooms appear in approximately 50 days from seed, allowing gardeners to enjoy flowering within a single growing season. This 500-seed packet contains non-GMO, heirloom genetics selected for vigor and authentic character. Our seeds are sustainably produced, and our packaging is fully recyclable and climate-friendly, supporting environmentally conscious gardening practices. Note: These flowers are not edible.

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We cannot possibly put all the directions you need for growing marigold flowers in your area on the seed package. We recommend that you read articles or check with other gardeners in your area.

This is an heirloom seed, meaning it has been passed down from generation to generation for at least 75 years. As a rule, heirloom seeds taste better and will grow the same year after year.

These are also open pollinated meaning they will reproduce themselves. While all heirlooms are open pollinated not all open pollinated seeds are heirlooms.

Freshly Packed: These marigold seeds are packed for the current growing season and will provide high germination rates next year as well.