Bring a little royal flair to your flower beds with Tagetes patula ‘Queen Sophie’, a compact French marigold that lights up the garden with deep orange-red blooms edged in gleaming gold. The fully double, ruffled flowers sit neatly above tidy, bushy plants about 10–12″ tall, creating a low, colorful border that looks just as at home in a vegetable patch as it does in a front-yard flower bed or patio container. Blooming steadily from early summer right up to frost, Queen Sophie is an easy-care choice for repeat color all season long.
Variety Details
Botanical name:Tagetes patula
Plant type: Annual
Growth habit: Upright
Crop category: Flower seed
Flower character: Bring a little royal flair to your flower beds with Tagetes patula ‘Queen Sophie’, a compact French marigold that lights up the garden with deep orange-red blooms edged in gleaming gold.
Product format: Seed packet
Sowing & Growing
Light: Full Sun
Planting season: Spring
Starting location: Direct Sow
Recorded soil pH: 5.5 – 7.0
Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Queen Sophie Marigold and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.
Place Queen Sophie Marigold where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.
