Blanket flower, also known as gaillardia, is an easy-to-grow, short-lived wildflower with richly colored, daisy-like blooms. These fast-growing plants mature to 24 inches tall with a 20-inch spread.

Now that our summers are trending hotter for longer, leaning toward perennials that can tolerate heat makes sense in garden ...

Gaillardias, also called blanket flowers, are north American natives. Some garden authors have written about how these flowers growing wild create deep velvet-red carpets in Nebraskan pastures ...

Summer is the time to savor the moment as the blooms of many annual and perennial flowers are peaking, even if that means you can add another chore to the list — deadheading is a must to keep ...

The LSU AgCenter will soon trumpet the newest additions to the Louisiana Super Plant list, and professor Allen Owings of the Hammond Research Station says they should be available in ...

Growing your own vegetables and flowers from seed offers several advantages: 1.) it’s less expensive than buying plants; 2.) you control the timing of when they’re ready for planting; 3.) you ...

Sometimes called blanket flower, gaillardia comes in a range of warm hues that evoke hot summer days and Southwestern vistas — yellows, golds, oranges and reds.

Blanket flower (Gaillardia) is another very pollinator-friendly daisy drawn into this unfortunate fashion of doubling blooms. Some new-selection flowers are described as “powder puff,” with ...

On top of their visual appeal, the bright, cheery blossoms of blanket flower are a wonderful food source for pollinators. Come fall, small birds also love to pick seeds off of spent blooms.

The showiest blanketflowers from the garden center include the 30-plus hybrids of Gaillardia x grandiflora. That's an interspecies hybrid resulting from crosses of G. aristata and G. pulchella.

A cockscomb flower at Denton County MHMR Center, Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Dr. Bharat Patel feels the garden, which contains native plants from India including cockscomb flowers, helps heal the ...