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Gladiolus 2019
« on: April 23, 2019, 11:26:17 PM »
Gladiolus italicus
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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2019, 11:59:32 AM »
Enjoying a holiday, Ashley?  8)
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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2019, 12:23:56 PM »
... and inevitably botanizing as we wander ;D
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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2019, 07:20:18 AM »
An old photo but it was the first time flowering for this species : Gladiolus splendens (seeds from SHS...)

They are also nearly totaly faded but also first flowering time for Gladiolus triphylus (seeds from V. Pilous), a very small gladiolus

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2019, 07:33:28 AM »
Again, first time flowering, and I'm very proud of it : Gladiolus watsonioides (seeds from Seedy business)
I meet this gladiolus in 2005 in Mt Aberdare in Kenya. Such a lovely plant with nodding flower of bright red. It takes me some time to find a source to buy it. I finally get seeds which germinate well and now flowers  ;D Well, it's not as nice as in nature but I'm happy to get it and to know that it comes from Mt Kenya.




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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2019, 07:34:57 AM »
And now, the same species (Gladiolus watsonioides) from Mt Aberdare...

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2019, 11:19:50 AM »
Flowering now   Gladiolus 'Gonolek', a cardinalis hybrid.  Bought as a growing plant from Kevin Hughes (Cally Gardens) at the Perth SRGC show in April.  I did not expect it to flower this year and was excited to see a flower spike starting.

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2019, 06:10:16 AM »
A few summer growing gladioli

G.oligophlebius
G. flanaganii
G.dalenii

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2019, 04:55:04 PM »
I grew seeds named as Gladiolus papilio 'Ruby' many times, but none flowered red.

The corms I bought from Kelly Dodson's Far Reaches Farm in Port Townsend, Washington, have flowered - a rich deep red.  I had plans to save seeds and send them to the seed exchange, but my neighbourhood deer just ate them.  I'll replant them inside my deer fence, so next year I should have seeds to donate.

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2019, 05:40:27 AM »
Gladiolus brachyphylus

Very small and delicate flowers



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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2019, 06:08:13 AM »
Two forms of gladiolus oppositflorus. Top one from Lesotho

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2019, 06:09:52 PM »
My first winter growing gladioli!

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2019, 07:18:45 PM »
Paul:

Which is it.

G. alatus or G. equitans?

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2019, 08:06:25 PM »
Arnold - I bought it as a bulb and as Gladiolus pulcherrimus! I’m pretty sure it’s alatus though- yet no scent that I can detect. It’s fairly diminutive too. Not that I havnt got a crush on it, lol

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Re: Gladiolus 2019
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2019, 10:53:33 PM »
Paul

Right on the rose scented Gladiolus pulcherrimus.

Goldblatt states it is easily confused with G. alatus.  Look at the leaf.

"Gladiolus pulcherrimus has a plane ( sp), glabrous leaf blades that lack prominent venation. The leaves of G. alatus always have strongly raised veins with a scabridulous edge."
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