The bright and cheerful calendula (Calendula officinalis) is often known by names like pot marigold or Scotch marigold, although it's not a true marigold. This easy-to-grow annual has fuzzy, green, ...
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*Growth habit: An upright to rounded cool season annual growing to 18 inches tall and equally wide. The leaves are medium green, elliptic in shape and growing to 6 inches long and 2 inches wide.
Calendula provides sunny, daisylike flowers throughout a mild winter and well into spring. Sometimes plants seem to bloom non-stop year-round, although some of this may be because the plant reseeds.