Gaillardia

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Butterflies Love Showy, Native Gaillardia Blanket Flower The Gaillardia plant is often referred to as the Blanket Flower, thanks to the colorful woven works of art created by Indigenous Americans. Belonging to the Sunflower family, Asteraceae, Gaillardia is native to both North and South America and was named after M. Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French patron of botany. Blanket Flowers at Nature Hills Producing daisy-like flowers from early summer to early fall, Gaillardia plants display petals that may be colored in shades of yellow, red, orange, or peach. Some petals may show off fiery bi-color patterns of red or orange with yellow. Gaillardia will add a blast of color to sunny garden beds or borders, and the plant's nectar-rich blooms will bring bees and butterflies to your home's garden. Plant Xeric sites and drought-prone hell strips along the sidewalk, by the roadside, or lining your driveway without worrying they'll shrink or falter! Use as edging along garden borders, or in Perennial and Cottage gardens to bring in a bright pop of color! From the SpinTop™ series of earthy reds, burgundy, and yellow flowers atop neat and tidy mounds of rounded beauty, to the vibrant yellow flowers of the Arizona series of Blanket Flowers! Fanfare Blaze seems to have flowers for petals and is ringed with trumpet-shaped petals with curly and curvy effects to each bi-color bloom! These are all incredibly cold-hardy down to Zone 3, are full-sun-tolerant, and even handle heat and summers throughout USDA growing zones 9 and 10! Forming mounds of leaves ranging from lance-shaped to having narrow-lobed leaves, the polite plants create domes of beauty that are incredibly easy to grow! Blanket Flower Care and Upkeep Gaillardia plants maintain vigorous growth if planted in medium, well-drained soils in full sun, and do well as container plants. Blanket Flowers are tender perennials that tolerate some dry soils once established, and is drought resistant . These plants do n