🌸 Calendula a Fiore Semplice Arancio is a straightforward and honest flower, grown for generations in Italian gardens for its vivid orange colour and its dependable nature. It is one of those plants that feels useful as well as beautiful.
🌱 Plant type
🌼 Annual flower. It grows quickly from seed, flowers generously, and completes its life cycle in one season, making it an easy and rewarding choice.
Calendula is valued not only for its flowers but also for the way it fits naturally into mixed gardens. It grows happily alongside vegetables, helps fill empty spaces, and brings colour where it is most needed.
🌼 Why gardeners choose it
🌿 Strong and resilient growth that copes well with changing conditions
🌸 Simple open flowers with a traditional cottage garden feel
🐝 Pollinator friendly and attractive to beneficial insects
🪴 Easy to grow and suitable for both flower beds and vegetable gardens
🪴 How to grow
🌱 Sow from March to June
☀️ Light full sun
🌡️ Germination usually takes 7 to 14 days
📏 Height around 40 to 50 cm
🌸 Flowering from June to October
☕ Garden moment
This is the kind of flower that keeps working quietly in the background. Bright, reliable, and always there when the garden needs a lift of colour.
🇮🇹 Part of the Vintage 1928 Range
📦 In stock and shipped from Ireland
🌱 Authentic Franchi Seeds with Italian heritage since 1783
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