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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 20, 2013 14:39:35 GMT
I have just received a mail with a pic of a gorgeous new Gladioli variety called Barbara BarbaraIsn't is fantastic..!!  |
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Post by Barbara on Mar 20, 2013 16:11:19 GMT
Beautiful RF.
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 21, 2013 6:27:58 GMT
What a rich colour.
You've just reminded me...I must get my glads planted!!
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 21, 2013 7:18:27 GMT
It's a stunner Rosefriend . For some reason I've never had any luck growing them and have given up but that one could change my mind. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 21, 2013 7:23:25 GMT
I was humming and harring this spring about planting some gladioli Ladygardener and I suppose there is still time to buy some bulbs. I too gave up years ago with them but the secret it to plant them deeply (deeper than they say) and I was amazed one year when our neighbours girlfriend planted a few and the following year they came up again. I always used to take them out and it was a faff!! The year before last killed them off - don't think they liked the minus 20 but otherwise they were lovely... RF |
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 21, 2013 7:28:27 GMT
My neighbour who gardens grew them for a few years and had lifted them before winter but for some reason he left them in the ground one year. Next year there were only a few of them growing. I think it's always too wet here for a good show of them.
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 21, 2013 7:56:22 GMT
My neighbour who gardens grew them for a few years and had lifted them before winter but for some reason he left them in the ground one year. Next year there were only a few of them growing. I think it's always too wet here for a good show of them. That could well be LG - we have sandy soil here so bulbs do fairly well actually.. RF |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jun 7, 2014 9:02:08 GMT
A quick question for any Gladioli growers. I grew them for years and then stopped and have a good few in tubs this year and I can already see that the one or other isn't going to flower - think that is why I stopped having them before actually - is it worth feeding them and keeping them until next year or shall I just bin them and keep the ones that have flowered??
RF
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Post by Rosefriend on Jun 21, 2014 14:07:25 GMT
A quick question for any Gladioli growers. I grew them for years and then stopped and have a good few in tubs this year and I can already see that the one or other isn't going to flower - think that is why I stopped having them before actually - is it worth feeding them and keeping them until next year or shall I just bin them and keep the ones that have flowered?? RF Just a quick bump on this in case it hasn't been seen... |
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Post by Ladygardener on Jun 22, 2014 5:49:18 GMT
A quick question for any Gladioli growers. I grew them for years and then stopped and have a good few in tubs this year and I can already see that the one or other isn't going to flower - think that is why I stopped having them before actually - is it worth feeding them and keeping them until next year or shall I just bin them and keep the ones that have flowered?? RF I've not grown them Rosefriend but I have read that they make little corms which unless removed will eat into the nutrients of the original corms. They also need a lot of water although of course they don't like to sit in it. Sorry I can't be of more help. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jun 22, 2014 9:02:40 GMT
A quick question for any Gladioli growers. I grew them for years and then stopped and have a good few in tubs this year and I can already see that the one or other isn't going to flower - think that is why I stopped having them before actually - is it worth feeding them and keeping them until next year or shall I just bin them and keep the ones that have flowered?? RF I've not grown them Rosefriend but I have read that they make little corms which unless removed will eat into the nutrients of the original corms. They also need a lot of water although of course they don't like to sit in it. Sorry I can't be of more help. Thanks Ladygardener - I didn't know about the little corms, I will watch out for that... I think that when you work out the price of a single corm it isn't worth the hassle of adding fertilizer to a corm that might never flower anyway. I have planted all the Gladioli with slow working fertilizer - be interesting to see what happens.. RF |
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