BEST TIPS on how to care for Blanket Flowers and TRICKS to get MAXIMUM flowers

Let me share with you some BEST TIPS on how to care for Blanket Flowers and TRICKS to get MAXIMUM flowers! I have LOTS of Blanket Flowers (or Gaillardia) in my full sun gardens here in Coastal North Carolina. Blanket Flowers love my sandy soil here, and I can easily fulfill their full sun requirement to get plentiful, long lasting blooms!
My Carolina Garden is located in Southeastern NC, in growing zone 8A. I have many perennials in my garden that spread easily (hello Blanket Flowers!). Hope this video gave you plenty of best tips and tricks for how to care for Blanket Flowers (full sun perennials)in YOUR garden! (Yay to drought tolerant flowers!)
For more on gardening in North Carolina, and seeing how Blanket Flower blossoms are a huge part of my landscape, stick with me!

[@zlatamontgomery1593]

Good video. Florida

[@maryellenshirley8518]

I LOVE how you give us your PLANT ZONE!!! Bonus is the area (southeastern N.C. & Telling us sandy soil.) I'm 8a, West Central GA, but Clay soil)

[@mycarolinagarden]

I know what you mean! It is really handy to be able to compare appropriately 😊 Thanks for this message!! 💚

[@MrWolfheart111]

Wow thank you, Just got some of these seeds, Deer and Drought resistant. An awesome $3.50 spent, they are so gorgeous. Its nice to see a video of them full grown, thanks,

[@mycarolinagarden]

Oh great! I hope you have as much success with them as I have! They are such awesome bloomers, I hope they bring you lots of joy!

[@101candlelight6]

Greetings from Barbados, I came across your channel only this morning. I love the blanket flower plant, I have one and it spread like crazy no wonder it’s called blanket lol, I cut it in half and it’s flowering so nice again. Your garden is really beautiful.

[@mycarolinagarden]

Barbados!! Awesome! ❤️ Thank you so much for your kind words and for reaching out!! 😁🌼

[@101candlelight6]

You’re most welcome

[@thomasfrank1227]

great!

[@GenderIsBinary80]

Greetings from Robeson County (born and raised, anyway; live in southeast GA now)!!!

[@mycarolinagarden]

Well hello back to you! Great to have you here!

[@MickF04]

We planted some Gaillardia from the SpinTop series, and various sites indicate they grow about 12-15" high and wide, which seems a good deal more compact than the variety you were documenting. We spaced them 18-20" apart rather than 12-15" apart here in Central Texas (zone 8b) because I suspect they'll be a bit larger than tagged.

[@mycarolinagarden]

They sound wonderful! I hope they are magnificent performers for you! 🏵

[@salimsettaout8256]

Thanks

[@youniishah]

❤lovely channel and flowers 💐

[@mycarolinagarden]

Thanks so much! 💕🌺

[@millymay0025]

Thank you, I successfully grow these in England too.

[@mycarolinagarden]

I love that! 😊🏵

[@ereynoldful3974]

I live in the Suwannee River Basin which includes the Suwannee and tributaries. Withlacoochee River, Alapaha, Santa Fe River and Ichetucknee River. We are about to have black eyed Susans covering the ditches along with those beauties. I also grow them in rock gardens in the backyard. They are about to go put on their summer spring show

[@mycarolinagarden]

That sounds so amazing!!! You'll have lots of blooms to enjoy! 💚😊

[@skywalker7297]

Great video, I was wondering when to harvest the seeds. First year growing blanket flower, it looks fantastic growing next to my red & yellow marigolds.

[@mycarolinagarden]

Hi there! Honestly, I don't harvest the seeds. The plants actually self-seed so much that I just let that happen and then transplant my new plants wherever I want (or give them away). I transplant in the Spring 😊🌼

[@barbmaki5143]

I just found a nice I have it in a raised bed now,I live in mount Vernon Indiana, it's full sun an south side ❤ plant loves , 😅 question do you just leave the dead ones you didn't mention dead heading? Yes /No

[@mycarolinagarden]

Oh gosh yes, I spend more time than I'd like deadheading these 😅

[@brianramsey3824]

Thank you for pointing out the stages of bloom first year purdy flower grower I was wondering if they benefited from deadheading but as u reminded me lordy if they they have the green centers they arent spent they are just starting

[@mycarolinagarden]

Thanks for your message! Having a visual can be so helpful so you can compare. But yes, holy cow, deadhead and get long lasting blooms! 😁 Good luck with yours!! 🌼

[@josealeman332]

aAh your garden looks so pretty, I have one of these plants for 3 years but it was short short, like6 inches tall and produced crazy amount of flowers, I kill it at the beginning of this year by mistake :(, I guess it drop some seeds which they never work before and I have a brand new plant but this one, the flowers look the same but the plant is tall, this year was hard to find this plant , and now almost summer over I see few for sale but very expensive, going to try to save seeds this year.

[@mycarolinagarden]

Ahh! First, thank you for your kind words! Secondly, you are right, the cost of plants this year has been outrageous! 😳 I hope you can save seeds and get another plant for next year. I have so much deadheading to do on them, it's insane. Good luck!!

[@Raina430]

Thank you that was great I really like your presentation! I’ve grown blanket flowers in the desert for years. And I have always found that after the first season they get long and leggy, they fall over and they look really ratty. For the first time ever I see your plants are bushy and mounding. How on earth do you get that to happen? Is it our weather? Mine have never looked anything like that. Any thoughts?

[@mycarolinagarden]

Hi there! Hmm... the first thing I'm thinking is maybe we have different species? I read there are at least 25 kinds, so maybe that's it? I would have no idea what mine are, as they originally came from "the wild" and not a nursery. Do yours die back in the Winter? Mine do, and if yours don't, that is the only other thing I could think of. I definitely don't do anything special with mine.

[@moisnhcrnr]

If I plant these next to my lawn, and if they go to seed, will they start to grow in my lawn? Or would the lawn be too thick for them to germinate?

[@mycarolinagarden]

I personally get a few here or there in my grass that I take out, but it's not nearly as much as in other areas.

[@dustyflats3832]

We have extreme drought this year and it needs water in my sandy soil.

[@mycarolinagarden]

Gosh the weather has been so crazy this year with some places being so dry and others getting continual rain. I hear you with the sandy soil!

[@dustyflats3832]

@@mycarolinagarden it’s a sad thing and they say hotter next year.

[@mikelaba8985]

Can you dead head these in the fall to keep them shorter?

[@mycarolinagarden]

I'm honestly not sure. I dead head them throughout summer because of the seeds, but maybe if you trim lower on the stem that would do the trick?

[@yvettehegler2292]

I bought a plant from a nursery and planted in a pot but it’s splitting down the middle and leaning over. Can I still dig them out of the pot and plant into the ground? I’m in zone 9b..

[@mycarolinagarden]

I think it'd be worth a try to put it in the ground. At the very least, collect the seeds when the flowers expire and plant them in the ground so you have a chance to get a new plant out of it.

[@Globally1201]

BTW...LOVE YOUR YARD GIRL!!! BEAUTIFUL AND WELL MANICURED!!!😍🪴🌳 I LOVE GARDENING AND NOW GETTING MORE INTO FLOWERING PLANTS LIKE MY ROSE 🌹 BUSH AND THE SAME ONE YOU HAVE HERE!!! SO THANKS A LOT FOR SHARING YOUR TIPS!!!😊👍🏽 I JUST PURCHASED ONE BECAUSE IT WAS ON SALE AT LOWE'S 🪴😂 PLUS IT'S PRETTY AND I'M REALLY TRYING TO PLANT POLLINATORS AND PLANTS THAT ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES!!!😊 IT'S BEEN SO VERY LONG SINCE I'VE SEEN EITHER IN MY YARD OR COMMUNITY FOR THAT MATTER, WHICH IS KINDA SAD BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL APART OF A WELL BALANCED ECHO SYSTEM RIGHT!!! HAPPY GARDENING!!!🤓👍🏽🙋🏽🔥🙏🏽👑✝️📖🔥🕊️

[@mycarolinagarden]

Awe, I love this message so much!! Thank you for all your kind words, and here's to an awesome gardening year and attracting pollinators!! 😁🐝🌺