I was very fortunate a couple of years ago when I was able to help out a community garden in our region and was gifted several plants as a thank you. One of these plants was a passion-fruit marigold - Tagetes lemmonii. Not knowing much about it at the time and assuming it was just like every other marigold, I planted it in the Potager garden.
While this plant has similar effects much like other marigolds, it also is a fabulous plant that has a more extended flowering period, from autumn right through to winter. It has beautiful yellow daisy flowers and is well known for its leaves. They possess an aroma which can be easily smelt when the wind passes over the foliage, or when the leaves are crushed. It smells like ripe passion-fruit! It is also a drought tolerant plant for a sunny position. It makes for a great addition to any permaculture garden - It is originally from Mexico, and it makes a fabulous border or informal hedge plant that is drought tolerant that thrives with the hot sun overhead and grows to approx 1.5 metres tall and 1 metre wide and is a soft-wooded perennial. I am now actively taking cutting to strike and also asked if the community garden has more seed so that I can more of this wonderful plant to my design. They are effective in a couple of different ways:
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Jo
26/5/2019 06:19:42 pm
I have one, they are wonderful. How do you take the cuttings? Are they easy to strike?
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Judez
30/5/2019 06:54:39 am
I have one in Esperance Western Australia.
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31/7/2019 01:49:47 pm
The truth is, I am not really into flowers because I am somehow allergic to some of its parts. I only like seeing sunflower. Other flowers aren't really pleasing to my eye. But when I got the chance to see Passionfruit Marigold, I realized that there is another beautiful flower aside from sunflower in my own opinions! I was really captured by its beauty, that's why I am looking forward to see something in person!
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Marie
23/2/2020 09:26:51 am
My Passionfruit Marigold leaves are dying back from the base of the plant looking woody. They get a lot of afternoon sun (in Qld). Too much water or not enough? This has happened before so I cut them back and they regrew ok but it is happening again. It that usual
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Graham
2/3/2020 09:16:43 am
Our plant is three yrs old we prune it every year this yr there are numerous seedlings popping up so I have stared potting them up to give away
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kelly
18/5/2020 12:21:08 pm
Oh how nice! Gotta love a hardy flowering plant!
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Christine
21/5/2020 07:50:24 am
I collected as many seeds from last years flowers and have not been successful in getting any to grow , also purchased seeds and they also didn’t grow . I love this plant and was looking forward to have several more in my garden.
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judith
2/6/2020 04:45:58 pm
I have a couple of very large bushy plants and want to grow more. what is the best way to get more plants... Can I grow from a cutting? Do I have to save seeds and grow from them?
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14/9/2020 01:04:05 pm
very easy to grow from 10cm heeled cuttings!
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Meg
21/9/2020 06:43:13 pm
Mine self-seeded and I got a couple of plants from that. Also grew from a thin cutting that my 9 y.o. grandson put in. He gave me directions, being an avid Gardening Australia watcher.
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30/10/2020 04:18:15 pm
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Jonathan Masih
16/11/2020 09:55:29 pm
I have successfully grown them from cuttings on numerous occasions.
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