Blanket Flower Commotion ‘Tizzy’

A remarkable new Blanket Flower destined to grace your best flowerpots and take center stage in the sunny perennial garden, ‘Tizzy’ is a multicolored masterpiece of fluted petals and bold, bright colors. Set to bloom over three seasons, it is an essential part of any flower lover’s garden.

These blooms are like nothing else in the Gaillardia family. Every petal is quilled at the base and trumpeted at the tip, so that they form dozens of perfect tubes, the better for hummingbirds to sip and butterflies to perch. Colored every shade of red from smoky terracotta to golden-infused scarlet, these 2-inch flowers begin in late spring and don’t quit until the middle of autumn, when the seriously cold weather sets in.

There are many long-blooming Blanket Flowers, but never one like this!’Tizzy’ reaches 18 to 24 inches high and 24 inches wide, with a neat, well-branched habit that just keeps tossing up new buds. The quicker you cut a dozen or so blooms for the vase, the faster new ones pop up. Each is individually streaked and shaded, so a fully blooming plant is simply a mass of warm color.Very easy to grow, ‘Tizzy’ is a great plant for new gardeners and seasoned professionals alike.

Very forgiving of adversity, it thrives in a wide range of conditions, and needs only good attention the first season to “find its footing” in the garden. You MUST have this showstopper in your garden.

Zones 4-9.