A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum AlanH Do you know these/this -Gardillia - ???

Last year and the year before this was the standard goblin blanket flower,, this year it is blooming two different shows of flowers ,, very strange,,

and do you know how many years gardilla's life span is??
this is the whole plant


this is one flower on one side of it


and the other flower on the opposite side



I've looked up all varieties the last picture kinda resemble the burgandy BUT it has yellow edges as the burgandy does not ,,

Hey the last flower is the kind that I have...i must look for the tag for it's name. See this is from last year.
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It's hard to see in the pic but it has a deep pink undertone into the orange. A strange colour, hard to explain.

Gaillardias are strange plants. I have a burgandy one that was completely burgandy last year, but this year is has yellow edges like yours. I have a seedling from it that has even more yellow. I think they often mutate and/or revert back to a parent plant. There are so many types of Gaillardia now: Arizona, Goblin, Kobold, Fanfare, Oranges and Lemons, Amber Wheels, and so on.

yeah it's weird isn't it. Has your started to bloom this year yet?? It will be interesting to see what blooms from yours this year.





I was wondering about it reverting back, Juniegirl mentioned the fact that they maybe do that,, ~ Thanks Alan

No Diane, mine are just starting to grow out of the ground.

Ohhhhhh Man I now have a mutated center of one,,





I did a google image search on these flowers and evidently these do form mutated blooms occasionally tho I never found an explanation for it

That is so weird, Diane, but I really like that way that last one looks!
Too bad you can't get more to grow like that! You'd have your own variety and it could have your name on it!!!