Blanket Flower Gaillardia X Grandiflora
Gaillardia pulchella has grey green leaves with large single or double flowers from july october.
Blanket flower gaillardia x grandiflora. It bears large daisy like flowers in a range of colours but usually with a dark brown burgundy centre from spring to autumn. Gaillardia also known as blanket flower is an easy to grow short lived perennial with richly colored daisy like flowers. Height 1 5 to 2ft 45 60cm spread 1ft 300mm. The hybrid name grandiflora means large flowered.
Free flowering gaillardia x grandiflora goblin blanket flower is a bushy often short lived herbaceous perennial with scarlet red flowers adorned with fringed yellow tips and a reddish brown cone. The most commonly grown species. Gaillardia is also known commonly as blanket flower a reference to the bright and vivid colors reminiscent of the traditional textile patterns of certain groups of native americans. Gaillardia x grandiflora are hybrids of g.
However some authorities suggest that the name blanket flower was originally in reference to the habit of wild species plants to form colonies which blanketed the ground. Tolerates heat cold dryness. Best cultivated in full sun in well drained soil. Flowerheads get 3 to 4 in diameter and come in red yellow orange burgundy or a mix of above colors.
Blanket flower is a hybrid that occurred naturally in a belgian garden in the 1800 s gaillardia aristata and gaillardia pulchella crossed to make the new species gaillardia grandiflora blanket flower is a perennial lasting several years is hardy from usda zones 3 10. The plant earned its botanical name from eighteenth century french magistrate m. The cultivar lorenziana double mixed is a mix of cream yellow orange crimson and multi coloured blooms. There are over two dozen species in the gaillardia genus and most are native to some area of north america.
They form a low mound of light green leaves bearing upright stems of large daisy type flowers. Genus name honors gaillard de charentonneau a french magistrate and patron of botany. Gaillardia grandiflora is a hybrid cross between perennial gaillardia aristata and annual gaillardia pulchella a short lived perennial it has a long flowering period and grows quickly. Grandiflora forms mounds and grows to 3 high and wide.
1 220 650 blanket flowers are valuable in the summer border for their very long season of bloom.