Buy Calendula seeds NZ

These calendula seeds are sourced from Nana’s garden where she has been growing them for 30 years.
A blend of old fashioned Calendula Nova and other variegated colours.

A joyful flower to have in the garden and the benefits go beyond Calendulas beautiful presence:

• Calendula flowers are edible – can be used in salads or teas
• Medicinal – can be made into an infusion in oil or water to heal skin
• Feed bees and butterfly’s – providing nectar for our important nsect friends
• Beautiful burst of colour in the summer or winter garden – can grow year round in teh right conditions.
• Cut flower – can display in a vase
• Companion planting – to deter insects away from vegetable plants
• Encourage pollinators to your garden

This Calendula seeds NZ seed pack contains 30 seeds in composable zip-lock bag with instructions to sow.
Plus a plant specific info sheet; with planting tips, growing care, fruiting / harvest seasons.

• SOWING TIME:
  Early Spring & Early Summer.
• HARVEST TIME:
  Harvest flower heads throughout summer if drying. Piking flowersheads encourages the plant to produce more flowers.
• CLIMATE:
  Grow through the summer months, planting in compost rich, free draining soil in a North facing, sunny site. Stake or tie plants where needed. Can grow in some areas through winter, but harvesting flowers (longer drying time) becomes less ideal.
• BOTANICAL NAME:
  Calendula officinalis
• TYPE:
  Open pollinated

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