Blooming from early summer into fall the daisy like flowers provide continuous color in the garden or containers.

Blanket flower gaillardia ﾗ grandiflora. If you re looking for a perennial with a long season of bloom blanket flower gaillardia x grandiflora is a great choice. Gaillardia mesa bright bicolour is a brightly coloured blanket flower in two tone red and yellow blooms. 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 gaillardia flower has very vibrant and bold colors in red yellow and orange with a blanket like quilted look from which it gets its common name.

Gaillardia also known as blanket flower is an easy to grow short lived perennial with richly colored daisy like flowers. There are over two dozen species in the gaillardia genus and most are native to some area of north america. 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. 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.

It was named after maître gaillard de charentonneau an 18th century french magistrate who was an enthusiastic botanist. The plant grows from about 15 to a maximum height of 3 feet. Blanket flower mesa red gaillardia grandiflora mesa red gaillardia x grandiflora mesa red blanket flower is a bushy often short lived herbaceous perennial with profuse intense red flowers which give way to attractive globe shaped seed heads. Gaillardia ɡeɪˈlɑːrdiə common name blanket flower is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family asteraceae native to north and south america.

Available from thompson morgan gardening direct. The plant earned its botanical name from eighteenth century french magistrate m. Gaillardia mesa red has beautiful red blooms. 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.

Genus name honors gaillard de charentonneau a french magistrate and patron of botany.