Calendula

Calendula is one of my favourite flowers......you ask why??? Because its so beautiful to look at at it hardly needs any looking after at all. Its a rather robust plant (as far as annuals are concerned) and the mix of foliage and blooms is just so pleasing to the eyes!!!

The one thing that this plant does require is regular dead-heading. Because as the flowers are quite sturdy after they've bloomed they don't fall off or dry up as easily as other annuals. So to keep your plants producing more and more flowers you should dead-head regularly and simply enjoy the resulting blooms!!!

Hardiness Zones and Islamabad

Now now, this could be a whole can of worms. Whenever I go to find any information about any plant there's always the Hardiness Zone described next to it. My location Islamabad falls somewhere around 9a and/or 9b. That is all well and good because it tells you how much cold the plant will tolerate.

Now where it gets muddy is how much HEAT the plant will tolerate. Because you know it so often happens that you buy a plant in spring, it does look beautiful and seems to be thriving but come summer and you have to do a thousand things just to keep it barely alive (forget about blooms and stuff).