Zeolights Calendula

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I had to add Zeolights and Sunshine Flashback Calendulas both to our website at the same time. If Sunshine is an embodiment of simplicity and artless charm, Zeolights embodies the exotic, mysterious, and dazzling. I think everyone's life needs both. A new color in calendulas, the background is a pale-to-bright peachy pink or apricot. Petal backs are deep maroon, and a golden glow suffuses the center of the blooms. Or as the breeder, Frank Morton says, "Fantastically beautiful, fully doubled blooms are a boiling complex of color." Who would have imagined the homely "pot marigold" could look so exotic? Bring on the spangles! Edible and loved by pollinators, just like its more homespun cousins. AKA Triangle Flashback, this is an OSSI-pledged open source variety. Calendulas make good cut flowers, BUT they close up in dim light, so put your vase in a sunny window or under a light. 30 seeds

The Open Source Seed Initiative exists so that breeders who originate new varieties can protect them from exploitation and patenting by corporations. It means that the breeder has freely given up patent rights in order to keep the variety in the public domain forever. The OSSI pledge reads: "You have the freedom to use these OSSI-pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others' use of these seeds or their derivatives, by patents or other means, and to include this pledge in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives."