Pot marigold
Ornamental and medicinal plant with a very long flowering season; offers bees little nectar and orange pollen, a helpful early and late garden source.
- Nectar
- Low
- Pollen
- Medium
- Flowering
- JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
- Pollen colour
- Height
- 0,3-0,6 m
- Life cycle
- Annual
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Pot marigold is a Mediterranean annual grown in gardens and medicinal herb fields. It has little nectar; honey bees visit mainly for pollen. Its value comes from flowering almost without a break, in temperate climates, from spring until the first frosts. Single-flowered varieties are far more useful to bees than double ones; in double flowers the disc florets are covered by petals.
Flowering
When sown in spring it starts in May-June and, if faded flowers are removed, continues until October-November. Sown in autumn, it can also flower in winter on the Mediterranean coast.
Honey and pollen
There is no monofloral honey. The pollen loads are orange.
Note for the beekeeper
In gardens around the apiary, single-flowered orange-yellow varieties should be preferred. Where it is grown on a field scale, watch the timing of spraying and move treatments to the evening hours, when bees are not flying.