Arizona Apricot Blanket Flower Care

Gaillardia x grandiflora arizona apricot blanket flower arizona apricot will reach a height of 0 3m and a spread of 0 45m after 1 2 years.

Arizona apricot blanket flower care. Plant in well drained fertile soil in full sun. If you consider yourself a lazy gardener do nothing at all. Cottage informal coastal drought tolerant beds and borders low maintenance wallside and trellises wildlife. An all american selections award winner in 2011.

Free flowering award winner gaillardia x grandiflora arizona apricot blanket flower is a bushy often short lived herbaceous perennial with large rich apricot flowers up to 3 5 in. Blanket flowers are valuable in the summer border for their very long season of bloom. In most zones the result will be the same. Gaillardia x grandiflora arizona apricot a low forming compact mound of bright green leaves with semi double flowers that feature a band of rich apricot around the amber chartreuse central cone.

This selection blooms profusely even in the first year forming a low compact mound of bright green leaves. Gaillardia arizona apricot common name blanket flower a softer palette in warm tones of apricot with golden yellow tips surrounding a central cone of amber gold and green. The genus gaillardia commonly known as blanket flower produces large daisy shaped flowers with petals featuring multiple colors usually red orange and yellow. If you are the tidy type cut back the plants and mulch.

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Attracts butterflies and is very bee friendly. With modest deadheading this selection will bloom all summer thriving in full hot sun and poor soils. Nicely mounding foliage is tightly compact on 12 plants providing the perfect backdrop for the blanket of 3 prolific flowers produced all summer. Blooms appear in early summer and continue well into the fall.

Heat tolerant drought tolerant and requiring minimal care gaillardia aristata arizona red shades a cultivar of the plant commonly called blanketflower is up for just about anything except. Arizona apricot is a uniquely colored blanket flower with apricot orange colored petals. Large daisy like flowers with layers of pointed petals yellow on the edges deepening to rich apricot in the centre appear in early summer and. Each petal exhibits yellow tips and surrounds a darker orange center which gives way to attractive globe shaped seed heads.