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| My Gaillardia Arizona Apricot is now three years old. It was purchased from Garden Harvest Supply and bloomed the first year I bought it. It returned as usual last year and was the same color as the year before. Love that coloration, by the way! Imagine my surprise when the blooms opened this year and the whole plant now looks like Arizona Sun. All of the shoots that developed from the crown this spring have all bloomed out as Arizona Sun. Is it possible that the Arizona line reverts back to a short species type of flower? If I had lost the plant over the winter, and seeds from it had all dropped exactly where the crown of Arizona Apricot was, don't you think that at least a few of the shoots that came up would be the original Arizona Apricot too? I just checked the Arizona line - A. Sun, A. Apricot, and A. Red Shades can all be grown successfully from seeds. I do grow Gaillardia Goblin but it is in a different place, not near to where A. Apricot was planted so I doubt that there was cross pollination going on. I also had an Arizona Sun purchased, not seed grown by me, and over the course of 4 or 5 years, it got taller and taller and last year I pulled it. It was in the front of the border and probably ended up about 2 feet tall, again resembling a species Blanket Flower, not the 12 inch plant that I started with. Has anyone else noticed something odd about the Arizona series Gaillardia? Linda |
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- Posted by echinaceamaniac 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 21, 14 at 22:15
| You can buy seeds of this variety. It sounds like your plant died and some seedling came up of the regular variety. Here's a link to the seeds. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Arizona Series Seeds
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- Posted by linlily z5/6PA (jakey915@comcast.net) on Mon, Jul 21, 14 at 22:24
| If you can buy seeds of Arizona Apricot and I had Arizona Apricot, why wouldn't the seed that you say fell right into the exact same spot as the crown of my old plant of Arizona Apricot be Arizona Apricot??? |
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- Posted by echinaceamaniac 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 21, 14 at 22:39
| It probably got pollinated by the others you have. |
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- Posted by linlily z5/6PA (jakey915@comcast.net) on Sat, Jul 26, 14 at 21:50
| I was walking past the Arizona Apricot plant yesterday and two new flowers have emerged, both blooms of the original Arizona Apricot color. Now I have a mixture of both the Arizona Sun flower and the Arizona Apricot flower growing out of the same plant. We are getting some much needed rain and will continue to get it into early next week. After the rain leaves, I want to dig up the plant and hope to be able to separate the Apricot part from the Arizona Sun part. At lease I know the original plant is still alive and growing now. Linda |
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