Blanket Flower (Gaillardia aristata) 3-pack of pots

Can’t be shipped.

Blanket Flower has dozens of bright red, orange, and yellow flowers. It has a long bloom period that compliments other flowers during the season. Blanket Flower is a fast, vigorous native plant that forms a short mound of flowers. Blanket Flower is a nice addition to new native plant gardens because it blooms prolifically the first year. 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

Details

Perennial
Sun: Full Sun
Moisture: Dry
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

Design Tips

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.

Maintenance Tips

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.

Note: Like most Blanket Flowers in the nursery trade, this is likely a hybrid Gaillardia x grandiflora.

Companion Plants

Pale Purple Coneflower
Butterfly Milkweed
Little Bluestem
Purple Prairie Clover

Size: 3-pack of pots, each pot is 3" wide x 3" deep

These pots can’t be shipped — pickup only!