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Post by richardw on Sept 24, 2016 14:41:14 GMT -5
Wonder how they would go?? templeton never grown them my self so dont know much about them, so, why not give it a go. |
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Post by steev on Sept 24, 2016 15:47:52 GMT -5
Worth playing with, as the buds, flowers, and roots are food.
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Post by prairiegarden on Oct 10, 2016 9:23:27 GMT -5
the things I've learned on these forums! I never knew that glad set seed and it had never occurred to me such a gorgeous flower (plant) might be edible. Next year glads for sure lots and lots of them!
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Post by richardw on Oct 10, 2016 13:43:25 GMT -5
And i never thought of them as been edible
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Post by steev on Oct 10, 2016 19:56:36 GMT -5
I was replying to T's post re daylilies; no idea about glads.
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Post by richardw on Oct 11, 2016 1:12:11 GMT -5
Well?, could always sink me teeth into a few to find out.. if i dont post for a while you'll know to not add to the stir-fry.
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Post by prairiegarden on Oct 11, 2016 1:35:18 GMT -5
Briefly looked it up, the flowers are edible, the seeds are not, don't know about bulb or leaf. One suggestion was to stuff the flowers as you would squash blossoms.
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Post by shoshannah on Oct 11, 2016 13:11:51 GMT -5
The corms are toxic to dogs and cats.
This was interesting: "An ancient name for the gladiolus was xiphium, from the Greek word xiphos, also meaning sword.
Gladiolus represented the Roman Gladiators, before the African Gladioli became popular in the West."
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Post by steev on Oct 11, 2016 19:33:47 GMT -5
I can just picture a group of Roman gladiator-slaves entering the Colosseum brandishing stalks of richardw's splendid glads; intimidating, that, eh?
"Morituri, Te floristii".
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Post by richardw on Jan 20, 2017 14:33:14 GMT -5
Ive taken a break from growing seed for a year but will get back into it again this summer and take more seed for sowing this early winter. Doing some reading on the net this morning, man there's a lot of misinformation out there, this article - www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/bulbs/gladiola/gladiolus-seed-pods.htm its says it take many years to get flowers which is so wrong, it can take only one growing season to get flowers. |
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Post by reed on Jan 20, 2017 20:04:14 GMT -5
Gladiolus is one of my favorite flowers. I'v often had them overwinter especially when I lived down by the river, not so much here but once in a while. Have good intentions of breeding them for that but haven't done a lot on it so far. I guess some are more hardy and some even have fragrance. Richard, do any of yours overwinter or do you lift and store them in winter?
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Post by steev on Jan 20, 2017 21:01:00 GMT -5
The Roman word for "sword" was "gladius".
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Post by richardw on Jan 21, 2017 3:23:35 GMT -5
Gladiolus is one of my favorite flowers. I'v often had them overwinter especially when I lived down by the river, not so much here but once in a while. Have good intentions of breeding them for that but haven't done a lot on it so far. I guess some are more hardy and some even have fragrance. Richard, do any of yours overwinter or do you lift and store them in winter? They stay in the ground, doesn't get cold enough here to effect them. The patch in the photo was self sown about 6-7 years in my asparagus bed, it has steadily multiplied since. Who would have thought Gladiolus could become invasive, i'm really going to do something about the patch and give a heap away, hate to think how many bulbs would be in there.  |
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Post by richardw on Jan 21, 2017 3:26:44 GMT -5
The Roman word for "sword" was "gladius". |
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Post by ferdzy on Jan 21, 2017 9:18:25 GMT -5
I can just picture a group of Roman gladiator-slaves entering the Colosseum brandishing stalks of richardw's splendid glads; intimidating, that, eh? "Morituri, Te floristii". And it's still all "Mine's bigger than yours!" I only ever planted basic red and yellow glads from the half-price bin so I have not bothered to save seeds. I'd like to get a more interesting and curated selection and try planting the seeds. Although, come to think of it, our autumns may close in to winter a bit too soon. I shall have to observe. Mine overwinter very nicely here in zone 5, although none of mine have achieved a clump like richardw 's. Nor are they such a magnificent shade of red! Mind you, the soil is sandy and very fast draining, plus good snow cover. (Most years. It has been mild, rainy, and freeze-thaw-ing for the last couple weeks which is a plant-killer much more than straight cold.) But I have little bulblets coming up all over; corms about the size of a pea. I was thinking they were offsets but now I wonder if they are from seeds? I weeded most of them out because that bed was very neglected and needed a complete overhaul. Too bad. Well, no doubt a few have survived the purges. |
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