This week’s work in our garden includes digging up and preparing gladiolus bulbs for winter storage. Gladiolus, or glads for short, cannot survive in the ground though the winter in our area. Even ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Spruce / Heidi Kolsky Gladiolus are gorgeous, impressive, summer-blooming flowers that grow from corms. Some hardy varieties ...
Gladiolus flowers are impossible not to spot in the garden. With their majestic spikes of eye-catching flowers, they’re a striking accent plant. They have a clumping form, with long, dramatic ...
The retro look of gladiolus flowers is popular once again. These easy-to-grow bulbs bring a lot to the garden party, including a huge color palette, vertical interest, and bloom times that harmonize ...
Purchasing larger, high-quality corms will produce the best results. Look for jumbo-size gladiolus corms for the best flowers. Large No. 1 and No. 2 size corms will also put on a good show. The glad ...
These garden showstoppers are easy to grow but require some special care. Gladiolus, also known as sword lily, is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the iris family. The plant is recognized by ...
You can dig them when they have yellowed and begun to die back,or wait till after the first heavy frost but before the soil freezes. You don't want to wait and dig when it's too difficult because the ...
This summer I planted gladiolus flowers in the pots in front of my house. The vertical bladed leaves added height that I was missing in my containers. The gladiolus flowers were from a mixed bag, so ...
The tall flower spikes of gladiolus add elegance to the flower garden and are simply superb as cut flowers. Derived from species native to the Mediterranean region and South Africa, the modern hybrid ...