Not Your Mother's Marigold

Tagetes lemmonii or Mexican Marigold or Copper Canyon Daisy is a deciduous shrub for us.
Evergreen where it hails from in southern Arizona and Mexico and was named after plant collectors Sara and John Lemmon who discovered this among many plants in the 1880s. They sent seed to Asa Gray at Harvard university who named the plant after them.
It was introduced to the nursery trade from their garden in Oakland, CA.

http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=1530

At 5ft tall and wide I am always afraid the frost will get it before it blooms 
as it has only been blooming for about a week.  It has that typical Marigold scent.