Re: tough & easy Gladiolus?

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• To: Mediterannean Plants List
• Subject: Re: tough & easy Gladiolus?
• From: T* &* M* R*
• Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:44:45 +1300
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Lauw de Jager wrote:
> 

>  As a wintergrowing glad try Gladiolus communis ssp byzantinus  and you
> will be with you forever.
> 
I can confirm this. When I started this garden close on 50 years ago I
had a single corm of this species culled from an old garden which was
about to be destroyed. Now it comes up all over my borders strongly and
handsomly and in most cases I welcome it, though it is easy enough to
pull the young ones out anywhere I _don't_ want it.

I have a friend who can't stand the colour and has always counted it as
a weed, but I have no such prejudice, though I do sometimes wish there
could be a wider colour range in something so very easy to satisfy.

Moira

-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)

• References:
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  • Re: tought & easy Gladiolus? (was Freesia laxa, etc.)
    • From: "S* A* O*"
  • Re: tough & easy Gladiolus?
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