Last year I successfully grew Gaillardia "Mandarin" in my perennial
garden. This year, in the vicinity of those plants and oh, pretty much
everywhere in a six-foot radius, I have some seedlings popping up that
look suspiciously like they might be that plant again. So, I have two
questions:

1. does anyone know where there is an online image of one of these
seedlings, so I can tell for sure if that's what it is?

2. if it IS that, am I totally screwed or will I be able to get rid of the
extras by picking them out? They seem to come out pretty easily but I'm
not sure if they are like dandelions with those hidden deep chunks of root
or not...

It's not that I mind if it's them, but some of these plants are in bad
places, like right in against the base of some shrubs, and in the lawn,
and yada yada

--
hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net
"uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est."
newly minted veterinarian-at-large

If you go to the Wildseeed Farms site and click on wildflower seeds then
blanketflower, there is a small picture of what the seedlings look like.
http://wildseedfarms.com

Mary

"Hillary Israeli" wrote in message
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Last year I successfully grew Gaillardia "Mandarin" in my perennial
garden. This year, in the vicinity of those plants and oh, pretty much
everywhere in a six-foot radius, I have some seedlings popping up that
look suspiciously like they might be that plant again. So, I have two
questions:

1. does anyone know where there is an online image of one of these
seedlings, so I can tell for sure if that's what it is?

2. if it IS that, am I totally screwed or will I be able to get rid of the
extras by picking them out? They seem to come out pretty easily but I'm
not sure if they are like dandelions with those hidden deep chunks of root
or not...

It's not that I mind if it's them, but some of these plants are in bad
places, like right in against the base of some shrubs, and in the lawn,
and yada yada

--
hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net
"uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est."
newly minted veterinarian-at-large

In ,
MLW wrote:

*If you go to the Wildseeed Farms site and click on wildflower seeds then
*blanketflower, there is a small picture of what the seedlings look like.
*http://wildseedfarms.com

Hey, thanks! That does look like what has pretty much taken over the
entire east end of my hill

I can live with that.

I'm just going to go after the really blatantly out-of-place ones (like
the ones in my lawn!) and try to remember to CUT BACK HARD after flowering
so they don't blow seeds all over again this year!

--
hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net
"uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est."
newly minted veterinarian-at-large

For just a second I read,

"Gaillardia "Mandarin" ate orange blanketflower"!
zemedelec

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:17:05 +0000 (UTC), (Hillary
Israeli) wrote:

Last year I successfully grew Gaillardia "Mandarin" in my perennial
garden. This year, in the vicinity of those plants and oh, pretty much
everywhere in a six-foot radius, I have some seedlings popping up that
look suspiciously like they might be that plant again. So, I have two
questions:

1. does anyone know where there is an online image of one of these
seedlings, so I can tell for sure if that's what it is?

2. if it IS that, am I totally screwed or will I be able to get rid of the
extras by picking them out? They seem to come out pretty easily but I'm
not sure if they are like dandelions with those hidden deep chunks of root
or not...

It's not that I mind if it's them, but some of these plants are in bad
places, like right in against the base of some shrubs, and in the lawn,
and yada yada

--
hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net
"uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est."
newly minted veterinarian-at-large
Hi Hillary
There is a small photo of Gaillardia aristata unflowered at
http://www.wildseedfarms.com/species_main_frame.htm
it should give a reasonable clue or start for you. Glaillardia are
heavy reseeders here in S. Florida and a pleasure to have
in the garden.

John