Gladiolus

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Gladiolus murielae 12-18" tall. Sword-like foliage is topped by wonderfully scented star-shaped white flowers with mahogany-purple centers on arching stems. Beautiful in the garden or as a cutflower. Z7.

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Large-Flowering Glad Mix Gladiolus

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Gladiolus 34-38" tall. A mercurial mix of colors, stripes, stipples, bicolors, tricolors, and everything else under the sun—what fun!

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Nanus Glad Mix Gladiolus

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Gladiolus 22-26" tall. Marvelous miniature glads in mixed colors, bicolors and butterfly types. Very satisfying clumped in a bed or as cuts. Darling! Z6.

Gladiolus

Showy summer bloomer excels as a cutflower. Each stalk is covered with 10 or more open funnel-shaped flowers that bloom from bottom to top. Named for their sword-like leaves; a gladiolus is a small Roman sword. Each stalk blooms for about a week, roughly 8 weeks after planting.

Growing Gladiolus

Soil: Prefers moist well-drained soil. Mulch to retain moisture and suppress weeds.

Sun: Full

Spacing: 5" deep, 8" apart, after danger of frost.

Planting schedule: Stagger plantings for a long season of blooms: First planting in early to mid-May, then again every two weeks through mid June. This will keep the flowers coming July through August.

Harvest: Hill or stake to keep plants from keeling over when flower spikes get top heavy. Cut when 2–3 blossoms have opened, taking care to spare the leaves, which feed the developing corm.

Overwintering: Dig corms after the tops have died, discard the old one, clean the new one, allow it to dry off, and store in paper bags in a well-ventilated cool (35–45°) dark dry place.