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Products > Tagetes Gold Medal ['09TAG1002'] PP24,856   Tagetes Gold Medal ['09TAG1002'] PP24,856 - Dwarf Mexican Marigold     [2nd Image] Habit and Cultural Information Category: Shrub Family: Asteraceae (Sunflowers) Origin: Mexico (North America) Evergreen: Yes Flower Color: Golden Bloomtime: Year-round Fragrant Flowers: Yes Parentage: (T. lemmonii hybrid) Height: 1-2 feet Width: 2-3 feet Exposure: Sun or Shade Summer Dry: Yes Deer Tolerant: Yes Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs Winter Hardiness: 25-30° F Tagetes Gold Medal ['09TAG1002'] PP24,856 (Dwarf Mexican Marigold). A small shrub to 2' tall with aromatic dissected medium green foliage and lightly fragrant gold yellow daisy flowers nearly year-round with flowering heaviest fall through late spring. Plant in full to part sun in a well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally to infrequently. Hardy to around 25 to 28° F and will resprout from the base if frosted back. Older flowers are hidden by the new so no deadheading is needed but plants can be shaped by pruning after spring flowering is past. The sharp smell of the foliage seems to deter both deer and rabbits. This plant seems particularly showy in early fall when it can be a solid mass of flowers. It looks very much like a smaller version of the fall blooming Mexican Marigold, Tagetes lemmonii, which is a shrub that often gets 6 feet tall or more. It reportedly is a hybrid created in 2008 by Japanese plant breeder Ushio Sakazaki, who listed it as a cross between Tagetes lemmonii and another hybrid marigold, which some speculate might have involved the lower growing perennial Mexican tarragon, Tagetes lucida. As this plant most closely resembles Tagetes lemmonii, others speculate it has no other species involved in the parentage. It was issued US Plant Patent PP24,856 in September 2014 with the patent is administered by John Rader of Amerinova Properties, from whom we obtained permission in 2018 to grow this plant.  The information on this page is based on the research that we have conducted about this plant in the San Marcos Growers library, from what we have found on reliable online sources, as well as from observations made of our crops of this plant growing in the nursery and of plants growing in the nursery's garden and those in other gardens where we may have observed it. We also have incorporated comments received from others and welcome getting feedback from those who may have additional information, particularly if this information includes cultural information that would aid others in growing Tagetes Gold Medal ['09TAG1002'] PP24,856.