Very floriferous. Blooms non-stop all summer long! Looks like an annual the way it blooms with bright yellow and red colors. It should be...Read More deadheaded regularly to clean up all the spent blooms. Most Gaillardias tend to be short-lived perennials, burning out after a few years, but they reseed readily.
Saint Cloud, MN (Zone 4b) | August 2007 | positive
This plant is very hardy. I dug it up and moved it, divided it, cut it and even accidentaly drove my car over it (only once-long story :o...Read More) ) all during a drought! It looked very bad at times, even when I thought it was dead, it still came back!...Here it is-at the end of a hot summer and it is blooming again!
It is a very bright and cheerful plant. I love it!
GAILLARDIA - Blanket Flower - Medium 24" - Plant 12" apart. Aptly named. Red with a yellow band.
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Ever-blooming from the early summer on. Very showy banded flowers "blanket" this plant. The ends of the petals have a torn ruffled appearance. Butterflies are drawn to it.
Plant Care:
New plantlets can be started by cutting straight down along the side of a clump in midsummer. New plants will form at the severed roots. Completely carefee. Best in poor loose soils (no clay).
This plant is very similar to the Rudbeckia, and for a long time I thought that it was some type of Rudbeckia, but it is not. Vivid colo...Read Moreurs splash your garden with this everblooming flower. It will peek up during the end of June and continue to bloom until it frosts, provided you deadhead the old blooms.
Very floriferous. Blooms non-stop all summer long! Looks like an annual the way it blooms with bright yellow and red colors. It should be...Read More
This plant is very hardy. I dug it up and moved it, divided it, cut it and even accidentaly drove my car over it (only once-long story :o...Read More
GAILLARDIA - Blanket Flower - Medium 24" - Plant 12" apart. Aptly named. Red with a yellow band.
General Information:
...Read More
beautiful perenniel for zone 9 in bakersfield ca
This plant is very similar to the Rudbeckia, and for a long time I thought that it was some type of Rudbeckia, but it is not. Vivid colo...Read More