Cape Marigold
Dimorphotheca sinuata and hybrids. (Formerly Dimorphotheca pluvialis.) ASTERACEAE (COMPOSITAE).
Planting and Growing Cape Marigold
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow cape marigold in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of cape marigold
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for cape marigold
- Season of bloom and planting time for cape marigold
- When, how deep, and where to plant cape marigold
- How to plant cape marigold
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of cape marigold
- Landscape and container uses of cape marigold
- Comments about cape marigold and its features
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Growing Cape Marigold
Many hybrids of erect, branching annual herbs, to 16 in. (40 cm) tall. Hairy, gray green, oval, often divided leaves, 2–3-1/2-in. (50–90-mm) long. Its native range extends through the veld and desert regions of South Africa to Namibia.
Common cultivars include Dimorphotheca sinuata ‘Aurantica Hybrid’, Glistening White’, and ‘Salmon Queen’.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many showy, orange, pink, white, yellow, daisylike flowers, to 2 in. (50 mm) wide, with powdery blue, cream, purple undersides, in early–late summer, zones 2–7; winter–early spring, zones 8–10.
Best Climates
Self-seeding, zones 2–10.
Soil Type and Fertility
Damp to dry, well-drained soil. Fertility: Average. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Spring in full sun, 1 ft. (30 cm) apart, after frost hazard has passed.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep damp; allow soil surface to dry between waterings. Fertilize annually in spring. Deadhead spent flowers to prolong bloom. Propagate by seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for banks, borders, containers, massed plantings in cottage, meadow gardens and roadside plantings. Pest resistant. Fungal disease susceptible in moist soil.