Plant species from the Asteraceae or daisy family such as gaillardia, cosmos, coreopsis and beach sunflower as well as ornamental grasses, and allow the flowers to go to seed to attract these gaudy birds to your landscape. From Wordnik.com. [tcpalm.com Stories] Reference
I really need to add some gaillardia to my garden next summer. From Wordnik.com. [Orange You Glad « Fairegarden] Reference
A little gaillardia is blooming red orange in amongst the sedum. From Wordnik.com. [August Bloom Day Delights « Fairegarden] Reference
Why there could be a carpet of gaillardia here and there a bank of primrose. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks To The Bohemian Club] Reference
The colors are like gaillardia, but the flowers are smaller and more delicate. From Wordnik.com. [Helen’s Flower « Fairegarden] Reference
Your gaillardia/kale combo reminds me of my gaillardia/artemesia combo, Frances. From Wordnik.com. [Mish Mash Monday August 10 « Fairegarden] Reference
Seaside evening primrose, prickly pear and gaillardia grow behind the ocean dunes. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference
No wind, morning light, blue fescue and gaillardia ‘Goblin’ complete the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Movement « Fairegarden] Reference
Where we go to the beach in South Carolina, the gaillardia grows wild, right in the sand. From Wordnik.com. [Movement « Fairegarden] Reference
Tall phlox, asters, butterfly bushes gaillardia, salvias and good old annuals will have to do it. From Wordnik.com. [Clems, Roses and Good Things Coming To An End « Fairegarden] Reference
Next summer the dianthus is out, the mondo grasss is out, the fescue is out and gaillardia grandiflora ‘Goblin’ is in. From Wordnik.com. [The Knot Garden « Fairegarden] Reference
Thanks for the kind words, the festuca and gaillardia are actually in the ground, it is a combination that loves the heat of summer and gives good color all year. From Wordnik.com. [Movement « Fairegarden] Reference
The brilliant orangy-gold of the gaillardia goes so nicely with the two shades of blue - dark 'Black and Blue' sage (middle-left) and caryopteris 'Worchester Gold' (back-right) - mix very nicely. From Wordnik.com. [K-State Gardens « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog] Reference
This piece illustrates a scene of cactus and gaillardia wildflowers perched on a beachy dune. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The golden and purple flowers of the fall bespangled the roadside -- wild sunflowers, brown-centred gaillardia, wild sage, and goldenrod. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
The golden and purple flowers of the fall bespangled the roadside – wild sunflowers, brown-centred gaillardia, wild sage, and goldenrod. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
Many sorts, if sown in spring, bloom the first year from seeds as early as annuals; for instance: gaillardia, Iceland poppies, Chinese larkspur, platycodon, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
If plants of marigold, gaillardia, or other strong and spreading growers are held by stakes or wire-holders (a good practice), it may be advisable to remove the weak and sprawling shoots. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
I left the road and went around through a stretch of pasture that was always cropped short in summer, where the gaillardia came up year after year and matted over the ground with the deep, velvety red that is in Bokhara carpets. From Wordnik.com. [My Antonia] Reference
So many pretty flowers–love the gaillardia and gazania–but it’s those mossy steps I’m fixated on. chuck b. said this on May 15, 2008 at 3:18 pm | Reply. From Wordnik.com. [May Bloom Day 2008 « Fairegarden] Reference
(A book I will be re-reading this winter while there’s a foot of snow on the ground — I highly recommend it!) Flowers like gaillardia and coneflowers will continue blooming for weeks into the fall at the expense of their root development. From Wordnik.com. [The year’s best tomato « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog] Reference
The gaillardia is way too large. From Wordnik.com. [The Knot Garden « Fairegarden] Reference
The blotches of red are gaillardia ‘Burgundy’. From Wordnik.com. [Butterfly Bush Standards « Fairegarden] Reference
For example, echinacea and gaillardia. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Forsythia suspensa; viridissima, frames, fraxinus species, freesia, fringe tree, fritillary, fruit-buds, fruits, culture of, fuchsia, fumigating, fumitory, fungi and insects, fungicides, funkia, gaillardia, perennial, gardenia. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
With a comparatively small amount of work, and very ordinary care, once the plants are set out anyone can have continuous bloom from early spring until frosts come, by setting iris, peonies, phlox, columbine, poppies, larkspur, gaillardia, giant daisy and painted daisy. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
In unfavorable sections the Texas gaillardia will lose its crown during winter, and the anxious novice watches impatiently in the spring for its reappearance, and finally digs it up only to find that while the crown is decayed the roots are alive, and here and there, on these, new plant buds are forming which, if not disturbed, would soon make good plants, probably not placed, however, just where wanted. From Wordnik.com. [Making a Garden of Perennials] Reference
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