Seeds, Solar Flashback, Calendula (OG)

Calendula, Solar Flashback Mix (Calendula officinalis) — Organic

Solar Flashback Calendula is a dazzling, organically grown mix with unique flashes of red, pink, and gold on both sides of the petals—an ornamental twist on a deeply medicinal plant. This variety was selected for its multi-colored petals and high resin content, making it both a beautiful pollinator plant and a potent herbal ally. Calendula thrives in cool-season gardens and reseeds readily, offering continuous bloom and healing harvests all season long.

Key Characteristics:

• Traditional medicinal flower for skin and wound support
  Calendula flowers have been used for centuries as a skin-healing herb. The dried petals are infused into oils, salves, and teas to soothe cuts, rashes, burns, and inflammation. Solar Flashback offers high-resin blooms, especially valuable for herbal preparations. Harvest flowers when fully open for peak potency.

• Dual-purpose: ornamental and medicinal
  The vivid, bicolor blooms of Solar Flashback make it a standout in pollinator gardens and herb spirals. Its beauty belies its toughness—it tolerates poor soils and blooms through light frost, offering both garden color and herbal harvests well into fall.

• Supports pollinators and beneficial insects
  Calendula attracts bees, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps with its open, nectar-rich flowers, supporting pollination and integrated pest management. A valuable companion in any mixed garden system.

• Cool-season and reseeding habit
  Calendula grows best in cool weather and can be sown early in spring or late summer for fall blooms. In many gardens, it will self-sow modestly, returning year after year with minimal effort.

• Excellent for medicinal herb gardens and permaculture systems
  Calendula integrates beautifully into herb spirals, medicinal borders, kitchen gardens, and sunny edges of food forests. Its shallow root system makes it easy to interplant with deeper-rooted crops.

Product Details:

• Native Range: Southern Europe, widely cultivated

• Plant Life Cycle: Annual (often self-sows)

• Sun Requirements: Full sun to light shade

• Soil Requirements: Medium to well-drained soil; tolerates poor soil

• Mature Height: 18–24 inches

• Bloom Time: Spring to frost

• Bloom Color: Mix of yellow, orange, pink, and red bicolor blooms

• USDA Hardiness Zones: Grown as an annual in all zones

A standout in both function and beauty, Solar Flashback Calendula is a garden workhorse: healing herb, vibrant pollinator magnet, and long-season bloomer in one hardy, low-maintenance plant.