77 – 91 days. Inspiration Yellow seeds grow elegant and award-winning bidens that promise to invigorate any stale flower bed, patio, or room. Inspiration Yellow bidens seeds are hardy outdoor favorites for growing unique golden yellow along a walkway or flowerbed, but just as popularly kept indoors. Inspiration Yellow seeds boast a semi-dwarfed 9 – 12” tall bidens bursting with 1” cosmos-like blooms often used as a fresh cut in many seasonal bouquets and arrangements. Inspiration Yellow bidens has won more than a dozen top honors, contests, and growing trials and has been proven to thrive in a variety of gardens. 100 seeds.
Growing Inspiration Yellow Bidens Garden Seeds
- Taxonomy: Bidens ferulifolia
- Other Names: Apache Beggar’s Ticks, Fern-Leaved Beggar’s Ticks
- Seed Type: Annual
- Sow Indoors or Outdoors: Inspiration Yellow bidens seeds are most popularly sown directly in the garden after the frost but, for earliest blooms, begin indoors 4 – 6 weeks prior and then transplant to a sunny place either indoors or out. Bidens seeds will germinate in 14 – 21 days with full lighting.
- Days to Maturity: 77 – 91 days
- Hardiness Zone: 5 – 10
- Planting Depth: Lightly press 2 – 3 seeds in soil
- Plant Spacing: 18”
- Growth Habit: 9 – 12” tall shrubby upright with an 18” spread of tall 1” cosmos-like blooms
- Soil Preference: Average, medium moist, well-drained
- Light Preference: Full sun
- Diseases/Pests/Troubleshooting: Inspiration Yellow bidens seeds are vigorous garden performers with no serious pests or diseases. Watch for aphids and spider mites on indoor plants. Bidens thrive in warmer climates and known to tolerate some dry and poor soils without any need for deadheading.
- Colors: Bright golden yellow heads and rich fern-like greens
Inspiration Yellow bidens seeds are most popularly sown directly in the garden after the frost but, for earliest blooms, begin indoors 4 – 6 weeks prior and then transplant to a sunny place either indoors or out. Bidens seeds will germinate in 14 – 21 days with full lighting. Lightly press 2 – 3 Inspiration Yellow bidens seeds 18” apart in average, medium moist, and well-drained soil in full sun. Inspiration Yellow bidens seeds are vigorous garden performers with no serious pests or diseases. Watch for aphids and spider mites on indoor plants. Bidens thrive in warmer climates and known to tolerate some dry and poor soils without any need for deadheading. Inspiration Yellow bidens seeds mature in 77 – 91 days as 9 – 12” tall shrubby uprights with an 18” spread of tall 1” golden yellow cosmos-like blooms.
Bidens ferulifolia is native to various hot and arid regions in Mexico, but has since been naturalized throughout much of the American southwest. Bidens ferulifolia has won more than a dozen top honors in various growing trials including Michigan State University, University of Tennessee, and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.