How to Grow Fiesta Daisies

Fiesta daisies (Gaillardia x grandiflora) are more commonly known as blanket flowers, or Indian blanket flowers, and can be grown as a hardy perennial in USDA hardiness zones 3 to 9. Unlike most perennials, the plant's appeal is that it will bloom the year it is planted with long-blooming, brightly colored flowers. Easy to grow, fiesta daisies tolerate drought and heat while attracting butterflies to your garden. Directly sow fiesta daisy seeds into your garden in non-frost regions or start the seeds indoors 6 to 8 weeks before the last spring frost.

Small pots or containers with drain holes
Tray
All-purpose potting soil
Seeds
Hand trowel
Well-rotted manure

Instructions

- 1
  Fill pots or containers that have drain holes with all-purpose potting soil. Set the filled pots on a tray. Moisten the soil by adding water until the water comes out of the drain hole.
- 2
  Sprinkle several fiesta daisy seeds on the surface of the moist soil. The seeds do not need to be buried or covered with soil.
- 3
  Set the tray with planted pots in a well lit window that will have a consistent temperature of around 70 degrees F. Keep the soil moist, but not soggy while the seeds are germinating. Germination will take between one to three weeks.
- 4
  Continue to keep the soil moist as the fiesta daisy seedlings grow.
- 5
  Transplant the seedlings into your garden three weeks after the last frost of spring. Space the seedlings 12 to 16 inches apart in well draining, loamy soil. Fiesta daisies prefer to grow in sunny locations with pH neutral to slightly alkaline soil.
- 6
  Add a hand trowel of well-rotted manure around the base of the plant mid-summer. This is the only feeding fiesta daisies require.

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