Can’t be shipped.
Blanket Flower is a fantastic native garden plant because it blooms prolifically the first year its planted. It has dozens of bright red, orange, and yellow flowers and a long bloom period that compliments other flowers during the summer season. It’s a fast, vigorous native plant that forms a short mound of flowers. It’s a very popular wildflower for bees.
Blanket Flower is a nice addition to new native plant gardens because it blooms the first year when many other new natives are still just developing roots. It is a short-lived native plant that survives for a couple of years before dying out, but it does regenerate with seeds.
Also available in 12-packs of plugs here
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun
Moisture: Dry, Medium-Dry, Medium
Height: 18 inches
Blooms: June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct
Color: Red, Yellow, Orange
Spacing: 12″
Spreads: A medium amount by seed
Zones: 3-9
Benefits: Butterflies, Pollinators
Blanket flower grows and flowers very fast, adding bright patterns of color in new gardens. Blanket Flower (Gaillardia aristata) can be short-lived but is worth the initial show. The variety of colors looks really good with blue native plants such as Hoary Vervain or Great Blue Lobelia.
Since Blanket Flower is short-lived and has to spread by seeds to persist in a garden, it needs an undisturbed seed bed to keep coming back. Annual mulching will smother seedlings. Make sure to leave the seed heads in the garden if you want Blanket Flower to stick around—if you remove the seeds at the end of the year, there won’t be any seeds to sprout!
Note: Like most Blanket Flowers in the nursery trade, this is likely a hybrid Gaillardia x grandiflora.
Pale Purple Coneflower
Butterfly Milkweed
Little Bluestem
Great Blue Lobelia
Hoary Vervain
Can’t be shipped.
Blanket Flower is a fantastic native garden plant because it blooms prolifically the first year its planted. It has dozens of bright red, orange, and yellow flowers and a long bloom period that compliments other flowers during the summer season. It’s a fast, vigorous native plant that forms a short mound of flowers. It’s a very popular wildflower for bees.
Blanket Flower is a nice addition to new native plant gardens because it blooms the first year when many other new natives are still just developing roots. It is a short-lived native plant that survives for a couple of years before dying out, but it does regenerate with seeds.
Also available in 12-packs of plugs here
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun
Moisture: Dry, Medium-Dry, Medium
Height: 18 inches
Blooms: June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct
Color: Red, Yellow, Orange
Spacing: 12″
Spreads: A medium amount by seed
Zones: 3-9
Benefits: Butterflies, Pollinators
Blanket flower grows and flowers very fast, adding bright patterns of color in new gardens. Blanket Flower (Gaillardia aristata) can be short-lived but is worth the initial show. The variety of colors looks really good with blue native plants such as Hoary Vervain or Great Blue Lobelia.
Since Blanket Flower is short-lived and has to spread by seeds to persist in a garden, it needs an undisturbed seed bed to keep coming back. Annual mulching will smother seedlings. Make sure to leave the seed heads in the garden if you want Blanket Flower to stick around—if you remove the seeds at the end of the year, there won’t be any seeds to sprout!
Note: Like most Blanket Flowers in the nursery trade, this is likely a hybrid Gaillardia x grandiflora.
Pale Purple Coneflower
Butterfly Milkweed
Little Bluestem
Great Blue Lobelia
Hoary Vervain
