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Marigold Firestone Orange Seed produces deep-orange flowers for warm-season garden colour. This annual suits sunny beds, mass planting, borders, containers and summer cutting displays.
Quick Grow Facts
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Plant Type: Warm-season flowering annual.
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Scientific Name: Tagetes spp.
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General Sowing Time: Spring to summer after frost risk has passed.
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Position: Full sun.
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Sow Depth: Sow about 5 mm deep in warm seedling mix or prepared soil.
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Spacing: 25-30 cm apart for bedding; allow more space where plants grow larger.
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Germination: 4-7 days at 24-27 C.
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Height: Varies by Tagetes type; allow roughly 30-120 cm for medium to tall marigolds.
Why Grow This Variety
- Deep-orange flowers provide concentrated warm colour.
- A warm-season annual for sunny garden positions.
- Useful for bedding blocks, borders and containers.
- Also suited to cut-flower-style summer displays.
Garden Uses
Use Firestone Orange in sunny bedding blocks, vegetable-garden edges, containers or mixed annual borders alongside complementary warm and cool colours.
Growing Notes
- Sow during spring to summer after frost risk has passed.
- Position plants in full sun.
- Sow about 5 mm deep in warm seedling mix or prepared soil and space plants 25-30 cm apart for bedding, allowing more room where plants grow larger.
- Allow 4-7 days for germination at 24-27 C.
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