Aug 02 2008 Marigold

I had bought some orange flowers at the flea market, I think these are marigolds . My mother took some of those dried flowers ad sprinkled them in these 2 pots back in mid-May. They kept growing leaves and now these are the first flower buds. I have saved some dried flowers from the original set of plants for next year spring/summer. I am not sure if they do survive that long.