10 Cool Facts About Blanket Flowers 🌺 #blanketflower #garden #garden #nativeperennials

Hey guys, it's Bailey with Tammy Sons Nursery, and I want to show y'all our blanket flower today. They're nearly all blooming. They still got a long ways to go, but they're blooming really good. I want to tell you why they're called blanket flower. Uh, the Native Americans would go and forage and hunt, and they would see them and they would consider it good luck, and they would make blankets that resembled the colors of a blanket flower for good luck. They belong to the sunflower family. They have daisy-like blue blooms in shades of red, orange, and yellow. They bloom early summer all the way into fall. They bloom all the time. They attract pollinators like bees and butterflies and beneficial insects. They are perennial, so they'll come back for you every single year. They're very, very hardy. They grow in zones 3 through 10. They're highly drought tolerant once they're established, and they love poor sandy and rocky soils. They're resistant to deer and rabbits. They grow 1 to 3 feet tall. They're low maintenance and never bothered by pests or disease where they are native. Deadheading can encourage more blooms throughout the season. They support pollinator populations by providing tons of nectar and pollen. They work well in low water landscape. So if you have like a desert landscape or, you know, a really dry landscape, that's exactly what the flower you need to put. They look beautiful in cottage gardens, wildflower meadows, and borders. They attract butterflies like painted ladies and swallowtails. They are great cut flower arrangements because they live a long time when they're in a vase. They self-seed theirself and they're perennials, so you'll always have them around.