How to grow gaillardia???
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gaillardia are there any variety that are long lived
Comments (44)I just grow the annual kinds like that one above growing in beach sand. They are just getting ready to open right now, they have naturalized but not invasively so, They come up in fall, winter over, are very early bloom & they keep it up consistently until fall. It doesn't get easier, cheaper or more reliable than that. Sometimes I get solid yellow but others are various amounts of yellow on red. I should add, I grow them dry, mean & lean, not moist, rich or pampered. This post was edited by TexasRanger10 on Sun, Apr 20, 14 at 21:57...See MoreGaillardia Burgundy Picotee, anyone grow this?
Comments (1)I saw pictures of this. It looks like Burgundy blooms with orange tips in the pics I saw....See MoreGaillardia?
Comments (55)I have tried to grow them twice before and had no germination. This time I used an actual flower and so far hve only a few up. Meanwhile everything else is up and doing well. I did get dampening off but usually in my experience they grow through it anyway. Does anyone have any seeds to the original blanket flowers? I had them in a brown bag and I'm pretty sure I didn't plant them all due to the fact they never grew before and usually I don't plant all of anything unless there's only like 25 seeds; i can't find the stupid bag. it just figures. at any rate, I'm looking for the original heirloom perennial blanket flowers. They also have a weird little flower thing, and i notice that some of them don't have a brown seed in them - that's a problem, and some of them did. I wish I could find the rest of them. I was counting on a flat - now I'll be happy if I get any. Why are they so hard to grow?...See MoreHow to tell Arizon Sun from Gobln Gaillardia?
Comments (6)I have Goblin, and it looks identical to a standard blanket flower aside from the compact habit. The yellow edge is wider than what I see on the Arizona Sun. I winter-sowed AS this year, but haven't seen blooms yet. From Bluestone's website, it appears that the red on A. Sun is more of an orangey tone than the red of Goblin/Standard Gaillardia, and the yellow is merely "tipped" vs. the wider band at the edge of Goblin. While they state that Goblin is a 12" and A. Sun is 8-10", size in anyone's garden we know is subjective based on conditions, so I'd be more inclined to note any differences in the coloring. Will look forward to seeing pix next season from you! Here is a link that might be useful: Bluestone's Gaillardia Page...See Moremad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
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