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❤️🧡💛 Blanket flower 💛🧡❤️

❤️🧡💛 Gaillardia or blanket flower is a group of perennials in the Asteraceae (daisy) family native to North and South America.
❤️The plant is named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an enthusiastic botanist in France.
🧡The name blanket flower may have come from the resemblance of the flowers to the brightly patterned Native American blankets in similar colors, the ability of wild species to completely cover the ground with a blanket of color, or even the legend of a Native American weaver whose grave was always covered with blooming flowers that were as beautifully colored as the blankets she had made.
💛Native Americans made tea from Gaillardia to treat gastroenteritis and sore eyes. The Kiowa thought of it as good luck. ❤️🧡💛


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❤️ I planted this cypress vine for my hummingbirds ❤️

❤️ Cypress vine is believed to have been introduced to North America in the late 1600s. It was becoming a popular ornamental plant in the southeastern U.S. by the 1750s. The plants were a favorite of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was the first to provide written documentation of the cypress vine in the U.S. In 1790, he sent seeds from Philadelphia to his two daughters, Maria and Martha, who lived at Monticello in Virginia. Subsequent letters show that Martha and Maria planted these seeds in a window box.
Today, cypress vines are still cultivated at Monticello where the plants are grown on “pea sticks,” or branches that offer support for cypress flower’s twining vines. ❤️


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🌼 Black Eyed Susan 🌼

💛The Black Eyed Susan or Rudbeckia Hirta’s history begins in North America. In 1753, Legendary botanist Carl Linnaeus named them after his mentor Olaf Rudbeck. 🖤

🖤Many believe the common name, Black-Eyed Susan, is derived from an 18th-century poem written by John Gay. The poem is about a woman who is black-eyed because she’s been crying while searching for her lover William. The poem related to the flower because Black-Eyed Susan bloomed simultaneously with another flower known as Sweet William, representing the lovers finally reuniting.💛


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🌻 My sunflowers are finally blooming 🌻

🌻💛🖤 The sunflower is native to North America and first was grown as a crop by indigenous tribes over 4,500 years ago.
Native Americans cultivated the sunflower from the original bushy, multi-headed plant to produce a single-stemmed plant bearing a large flower.
The crop’s many uses included milling for flour or meal production to make bread and cakes. Seeds were roasted, cracked and eaten whole, either as a snack or mixed with other grains and nuts and made into a type of granola. 🖤💛🌻