Baileya Species, Desert Marigold, Desert Baileya, Paper Daisy, Showy Desert Marigold

I live in Florida. Last year the Desert Marigold in a hugh pot bloomed all summer. I planted one in the yard at the back of the flower ...Read Moregarden early Spring where it is dryer but gets reclaim water off and on. It has not bloomed all summer but has grown until it takes up the space of an entire volkswagon beetle on the ground. It started out as a bush, leaned over, and now trails as large as stated above. Why and also only about a dozen on the one in the pot? My Purple Cow Nursery in Fl says none of his in pots have bloomed this year and he just cut them all back last week. I need to know if I need to go ahead and just cut back all these big branches or tip as they are now getting into other people's property almost. I can not let them grow outward much longer and am so disappointed. The one in pot in July had about a dozen blooms and then stopped. I wonder if watering too much is the problem?

I planted Desert Marigold seeds and got one plant up. It bloomed nonstop during our very dry and hot summer and everyone that visited my ...Read Moregarden left with a handful of seeds. I live in Northeast Texas.

This plant looks great from spring untill frost, blooming nonstop. It hates too much moisture and I loose some in the spring rains but it...Read More reseeds so aggressively that I have to pull a lot of them anyway. Grows in pure sand or the cracks of the sidewalk, very hardy and stands up to heat and dry conditions. Each plant is an upright, big bouquet of yellow/grey.

Desert Marigold, Desert Baileya, Wild Marigold, Paper Daisy Baileya multiradiata is Native to Texas and other States.