‘Six on Saturday‘ is a popular popular gardening meme that many of us garden bloggers participate in on Saturdays. The link explains how it works. Simply, we post six pictures of what is happening in our gardens or landscapes at the time, along with brief explanations. Mine just posted at midnight. I know I should be done, but I happened to find a few more pictures to share.
These six pictures of marigolds that were just installed at work are not as interesting as the topic I wrote about earlier, but are just too pretty to be discarded before I show them off. The second and third pictures, as well as the fourth and the fifth pictures, might be redundant to each other if they show the same varieties of marigolds, but I do not care. They are all so pretty.
Marigold will not likely be featured in my weekly gardening column this year, because the bigger but related African marigold was featured last October. These here are the smaller and more traditional French marigold. Their bright yellows, bright oranges and rusty reds suit late summer and autumn like miniature chrysanthemums. Their foliage is so delightfully aromatic.
Although I am none too keen on annual bedding plants, I happen to like marigold. They were more popular when I was a kid. They were not so variable back then; and there were certainly none of those pathetic fake white sorts that are really just pale yellow. They were plain and simple orange, yellow and rusty red, in blends or uniform. We could easily grow them from seed.
Unfortunately, marigolds will not be with us for long. They were planted to replace petunias that did not last long enough. At the end of autumn, they will be replaced by cyclamen for winter.
This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate:
https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/
Tony Tomeo 
Very pretty — I’m glad you added these 6 more!
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Than you. I did not want to waste the pictures.
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A beautiful burst of colour, my favourite is number four. I can see why they had to be shared.
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You selected a favorite? That is not easy with marigolds. They are all so rad.
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Very jolly!
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Thank you. (What is ‘jolly’?)
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Er, sort of bright and cheerful.
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Sort of like it sounds.
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Nice Marigolds Tony…
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Thank you. You can see why I wanted to get pictures of them.
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Love Marigolds,too. They don’t last very long but reseed.
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Ours will be deadhead, so will not be able to reseed. Warm season annuals normally get replaced directly with cool season annuals. We just got marigolds for a transition because the petunias finished too early for the cool season annuals that will go through winter.
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Did the same annual rotation when I lived in Atlanta.
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It is not something I would normally do, but it is in a public space. In town, I do it with nasturtiums, but they keep replacing themselves, so stay all year.
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Reblogged this on Tony Tomeo and commented:
Well, I do not make a habit of recycling Six on Saturday posts, but this is what I have for today from three years ago.
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