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Description

Calendula 'Art Shades', is a classic cottage garden favourite with richly coloured blooms that will add cheerful character to your beds and borders. Producing masses of gorgeous frilly, double blooms in shades of creamy peach, orange, gold and yellow. 'Art Shades' is adored by many beneficial insects making them a great companion plant for your kitchen garden. The petals of these blooms are also edible, with a slightly peppery taste. Delivered as a pack of 200 seeds. Sow outdoors, February-October.

Top Tips

Remove dead flowers to prolong flowering season.
Sow a few seeds late June and in most years, you will have blooms until the first frosts.
Sowings made in curves rather than straight lines can create a more pleasing and natural effect.

Care Information

How to grow Calendula �Art Shades�

Sow outdoors, March to May or August to October, where they are to flower, 0.5cm (�in) deep, directly into finely prepared soil that has already been watered. Seedlings usually appear in 7-21 days. Water well until established. Thin seedlings to 23cm (9in) apart to allow for their development and those removed can be transplanted. For a continuous display, make sowings at 2-3-weekly intervals. Late summer and autumn sowings will flower the following year.
Or sow indoors, February to April, in trays of compost. Water well and place in a greenhouse or cold frame. Keep moist. Transplant seedlings 5cm (2in) apart to other trays when large enough to handle. Gradually accustom young plants to outside conditions before planting out 23cm (9in) apart.

Aftercare

Keep weed-free and dead-head regularly to extend the flowering season.
Keep moist, watering through very dry spells.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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