Striking Petals

Our Gaillardia Aristata seeds produce striking, bold petals in vibrant red and yellow hues, making them an excellent choice for any wildflower garden. These perennial wildflower seeds thrive in full sun, adding eye-catching color and beauty to your garden seeds collection.

Perfect for Borders and Meadows

Our Gaillardia Aristata plants have a bushy growth habit and vibrant blooms that make them excellent for borders and meadows. The bold, colorful flowers create a striking contrast, adding texture and beauty to any garden space, perfect for filling gaps and creating stunning displays.

Attracts Pollinators

Our Blanket Flower seeds are known for attracting a variety of pollinators, including bees and butterflies. The vibrant yellow petals and abundant blooms provide a rich nectar source, making them a perfect addition to any garden that seeks to support and encourage local wildlife.

Great for Cut Flowers

Our Gaillardia Aristata flowers have vibrant, long-lasting blooms, making them great for cut flowers. Their sturdy stems upright growth habit and striking color patterns make them perfect for floral arrangements, adding a bold and cheerful touch to any vase or bouquet for elegant home decorations.

Blanket Flower (Gaillardia Aristata Aurea Pura) - One of the first plants to start blooming and one of the last to stop! Grow these bright yellow treasures from Gaillardia seeds! Known as Blanket Flowers,  they are indeed a treasured native from the open, hot plains so they are quite drought tolerant and require little water or care. They are a perennial, returning each spring from the same roots, forming an expanding clump, and each season they will attract many beneficial insects to the flower garden.

Gaillardia blooms the second spring when started from flower seed. If sowing Gaillardia seeds indoors, start 6 - 8 weeks before the last frost, use sterile starting soil and starter trays. Press the flower seeds into the soil and barely cover. Keeps seeds moist until germination. Cut back the Blanket Flower seedlings at transplanting to help it become more compact. If sowing Blanket Flower seeds outdoors, wait until danger of frost has passed. Sow the seeds into prepared soil, cover lightly with fine garden or potting soil. Or, broadcast spread them over an area, and lightly rake into the soil. Keep moist until germination. Once they are established, Blanket Flower plants will self-seed. Gaillardia is native to the plains regions, but can be grown in all regions from Canada to Florida are are resistant to drought.