blanket flower let me see yours

i just got this one and its my first blanket flower! i love it! anyone know which one it is? i would love to see pictures of yours.

kelly

Mine aren't even close to flowering here yet.

Yours is nice, maybe Arizona Sun? Many varieties that are similar though.

Lovesdaylilies~Did you get just one?? I love their vibrant, non-stop colors, I have to get a bunch of them. Here's a picture of last year's Fanfares. They didn't make it, I blame it on these little peat cups I found around the stems. This year I'm buying more from a different grower.

nice combination of plants in your picture. yes i got just one. i found it of all places at the grocery store outside on a cart. it is doing great! i love it.

kelly

Thanks kelly - as you can see, I have some bare spots that need filling in LOL.

This is the first bloom on mine. It was winter sowed in Jan 2006

pretty! how rewarding for you to see one you planted from seed bloom.

kelly

"Goblin" variety with duskywing butterfly visiting. Took this one yesterday.

great closeup! thanks for sharing : )

Gaillardia 'Sunspot', I think, but I've lost the tag:

Ooooh, that's pretty jkom!

A guy down the street from me grows these. He's next to the interstate and the flowers are spreading down the slope toward the road. It must be nice to drive by them.

ohhhhhhhh i love sunspot!

The photo is mine, the plant is not.

I grow the yellow one in my yard.

I got this one at a plant sale of at the University.

the yellow are so cheery i have never found the yellow around here

Nice photos of the blanket flower. The gaillardia is our state flower,OK, and will appear on the new '07 state quarter along with the scissor-tailed flycatcher.

I was inspired by the nice pictures posted here. I rushed to the nearest nursery and purchased one,'Fanfare"

Isn't Fanfare a semi-dwarf? I see it, but, never buy it anymore. It doesn't grow as well as the wild seed that I collect. Tends to die out early here in the hot humid tropics.

I'm looking forward to seeing mine bloom. I have about a dozen that I grew from seed. I'll post pictures when it finally happens.

I grew mine from seed, and it does take a while. On the upside, I haven't been without blooms since.

Here's my "Fanfare" from the summer of 2006. I have two of them planted in containers, and they're coming back nicely this year! I could post a picture of the entire plant, but it would be a little embarrassing. I was only on my 2nd year of gardening in 2006, so I didn't know the meaning of dead-heading. I did figure it out later in the summer, and the flowers loved it! My two plants bloomed non-stop from May through October. I like them so much, that I bought four more plants this year, but they're not even close to blooming yet.

Colli
That is a nice photo of the fanfare. I hope that the one that I planted yesterday does as well.
when I purchased it,the plant had one bloom and six buds. Maybe the others will open up soon. I probably need more of them,back to the nursery!

Here is Gaillardia Burgundy just starting to bloom.

i like the burgundy!

me too! it's stunning. Bareroots, did you grow it from seed?

No, it was a plant. Hoping to get seeds from them this year. I wasn't sure I was going to like it--thought it might me a drab red, but it turned out beautiful.

I have a bunch of 'Arizona Sun' seedlings about 3 or 4 inches high now, don't know if they'd be true to type or not. I guess they won't flower this year? Also, are these hard to transplant if I need to spread them apart further? Right now they're in clumps that I removed from their winter sowing jugs. Thanks for any help.

This one was self sown and is just starting to bloom this year.

This is "Red Plume". I grew it from seed (purchased from Select Seeds). I also have "Yellow Plume" out there somewhere, but it hasn't bloomed yet.

Close up

Helenium 'Mardi Gra' - my first one bought this year. Can't wait till it blooms more.

Your Mardi Gra looks very pretty. that is a new Helenium I just added this year.

Susan

mardi gras is nice and different...adding that name to memory : )

I like Mardis Gras a lot. I put all my helenium in their own bed now.

I love it too. :)) I am going to try to divide the heck out of it, if I can, I guess putting the cuttings in some room hormone, right?
rebecca30

My first bloom. I grew this from seed. The seed packet shows a variety of colors. Some are mostly yellow, others are more orange or red.

So Fanfare has been posted - not for my zone yet. All of these I saw last year were so short, my plant has really grown this year.

pennefeather ~ way to go girl!

al ~ I love Fanfare. So yours started out short, how tall is it now? I have yet to find more, and I'm willing to pay for larger plants.