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| Name |
Gaillardia |
| Price |
Available on Request |
| Colours | red, yellow, orange, mixed |
| Size | Height: 30-90cm/12-36inches
Spread: 45-60cm/18-24inches |
| Aspect | This perennial needs full sun. |
| Care | Gaillardias prefer fertile, well drained soil, but will also tolerate poor soils. To encourage more flowers, they should be regularly deadheaded. In late summer, cut them down to 15cm/6inches from the base to encourage fresh new growth. |
| Uses | -Tall enough to give presents at the back of herbaceous beds/borders
-Low maintenance
-Shorter varieties suit the front of beds/borders and containers
-Suitable for cottage garden/informal planting schemes
-Lovely cut flowers |
| Description | These jolly daisy flowers come in bright colours that reach up to 14cm across! They are bushy plants with soft, long, hairy leaves. They are mostly tall but there are some shot varieties, which only grow 30cm/12inches. Gaillardias are a short lived perennial (will probably only come back for 3 or 4 years), and are mostly hardy. Flowers from summer to autumn. (not all varieties are perennial, some are annual or biennial. |
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