Seed Collecting Knowing What are Good Seeds, How to Collect Gaillardia Indian Blanket Flowers

[@jwater63]

They are a perennial. I used to grow them, and not all of them would come back the next year, so I would grow some more to take their place. I had the same issue with Shasta daisies. 😊

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Thanks for the great advice ❤

[@cindytennessee]

Hi Robbie! 🙋🏻‍♀️ I love gaillardia. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Take care, Cindy

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

So happy this showed up here last summer

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

They are so beautiful, thank you so much

[@BarbaraC02]

Good grief, that’s clever!! I’ve never seen that tip for collecting viable seeds. I grow these beautiful flowers, they come in my wildflower seed mix. Mine are still blooming, I’ll check out the plant tomorrow and see if I can harvest a few seeds. Thanks Robbie.✨🌵✨🧚‍♂️

[@ZE308AC]

Thank you Robbie for sharing the truth about the blanket flower 🌼 🌸 😊.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

You are so welcome

[@jwater63]

Thank you! I used to grow these all the time, but haven't in years. When I was a kid, my grandma loved flowers and taught me everything that I know about them. I sure miss those days. I also miss the greenhouse that I used to have. I would grow so many flowers in it. I still collect my own seeds to grow flowers with, and now vegetables, but I have to wait until later to start them. ❤😊😊❤

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Great Wonderful Memories ❤️ I am going to wait to start flowers here too right now ❤️

[@patkrueger7353]

Thank you Robbie for this information. I had those plants and they didn't come back. It said it was a perienial. I don't know. But thank you again. Much appreciated 😊.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

You are very welcome, there’s supposed to be a perennial, so we’ll see maybe they don’t like the really cold weather though. Thanks

[@deepost2604]

What I’ve read is that gaillardia are a short lived perennial, but self seed readily. I started about 25 from seed and planted them out early Aug. Maybe they will bloom prior to Nov. frost or not. I’ll see what the survival rate is over the winter. Zone 7aVA.

[@sharonmcdonald8779]

I love the blanket flower. I've grown it several times. Now I know how to collect the seeds. Thanks for all the great info. 😊

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks 😊

[@anesenuriddin9091]

I am a novice at this. What excellent information 👏

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Glad to help 😊 we are all learning

[@par4451]

I love Indian blanket flower, I seem to not be able to germinate the seeds, my seeds are old, I should get some new seeds.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

If it’s the seed you collected, I’m not sure if they need to be cooled down some say yes, some say no, like putting them in the fridge. But if they’re really old it is possible they got damp or something got in there like insects or it was not good to start with?

[@susankoster5644]

❤thank you so much Robbie. You ate an excellent teacher. I learn so much from you and Gary❤

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

You are so welcome❤️

[@susankoster5644]

@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy OMW I only now saw I wrote ate in stead of are😂😂😂

[@ivahihopeful]

I collected non seeds from these one year. Thanks for the video, Robbie!

[@elizabethlugo6042]

❤ Thank you Robbieand Gary for your helpful tips I love to see Jeanny, she's so cute ❤️🐾 God Bless 🙏❤️

[@microsp20lect28]

I can only say... Amazing! You have a gift in teaching others and that is quite unique. God Bless!!

[@JD-uc1es]

Would you ever consider selling some of your homemade water fountains for the hummers?

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

It is the shipping I am not set up to do

[@taryngarrette2369]

Thank you for the information! This is my first time with this flower and honestly I'm not sure where it came from lol. My husband accidentally tossed my seed packets I'd saved when I planted the garden. I know it came in a wildflower blend but I mixed 3 different ones together and sowed them because they were older and the viability couldn't be guaranteed. I definitely want to grow these again, and now i know how to save the seeds!

[@monagriggs6352]

Hey Robbie & thank you for sharing how to collect seeds🥰🥰

[@barbarabrindza723]

Great video, thank you!

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Thank you ❤️

[@MomPuff-b9w]

Thank you dear Robbie!! Great idea!! Of course thanks to you I have a lot of tule!! 🤗🦋🥰

[@KatMac5]

I have Indian blanket flower taking over my yard! bees, yes and no birds try eat the seeds. We planted it with store bought seeds 3 years ago.

[@valoriegriego5212]

Thanks, Robbie!👍💕

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

You are so welcome ❤️

[@deepost2604]

I bought some blanket flower seeds and they looked like tiny green triangles. The germination rate on these was over 90%. I don’t think they would have passed your test of dropping them in a cup. The pack of 25 seeds came in a plastic insert bag 1”x2”. And these were flat seeds, not like what I saw in your cup. This was Artista gaillardia. We will see what I get when they bloom.

[@memorybrantley6888]

Thank you for the great information! ❤

[@lydiarose29]

Wow, I've been picking the wrong part for seeds. Thank u so much. Off to get tweezers to cull through my correct seeds😂

[@little_dandelion]

Thank you so soo much! Now I know the previous years, I've collected empty seeds of these Gaillardia flowers. *facepalms* Just have to check again the seeds to see if at least, some of them were viable. But I remember so many of them were clear. I thought the seeds must have been minuscule because I was seeing a tiny black dot on a few. But in your video, that's the whole seed that's grey and bulging and I don't remember having seen those when I collected them.

[@Judten1]

Tulle. Robin please can you help with this question? If I cover my garden with tulle this summer from bugs as we talked about earlier in a live. How will the bees be able to pollinate the flowers if the tulle material is on it for protection? Thank you so much.

[@par4451]

Hi you have to cover the plants that are self pollinating .

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

I cover my plants that do not need pollinating, like kale, cabbage, collard, lettuce, brassicas… this way the bugs won’t eat them, and I get the food for myself. with other plants, you can cover the fruit once it’s been pollinated to protect it from critters. ❤

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

@@par4451 Thanks❤

[@Judten1]

@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy thank you so much.

[@rocknmamma2666]

I just bought an Emu plant ordered from a large nursery. I thought I'd try to propagate a few cuttings as you demonstrated. But most of the suitable stems are covered in little green pea size balls which obviously must be the seed pods. There are still some flowers as well. But the plant is only a gal size, and not to bushy. So.... now planning to set whole pot in a composting tote (as you've also shown) with some others and overwinter them to let them grow. Then try cuttings in early spring. Any suggestions or ideas? Thanks, MaryAnne from Ramona. So questions - have you tried growing these seed's when they mature, what do they look like, and were you successful???

[@WiIdbiII]

I guess I'm lucky. I never had to collect the seeds for my bluebonnets and Indian blankets . My wife planted them 15 years ago , and they come in strong every spring. But I do harvest a few hundred to a couple thousand Bluebonnet seeds every springs end , just in case something were to happen .

[@VioletG629]

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[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

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