Dear Mary Sue, It was wonderful to view your species Gladiolus on the wiki! I hope there will soon be more. Perhaps a member could tell me what garden gladiolus is sold in California as a heirloom plant - a clear, bright orange self with a simple 'daleni' type shape, hooded on top? Some Texas friends of mine brought back a plant but want to hang on to every cormel...I must have my own. And where could I possibly buy some? Cynthia Mueller College Station, TX Zone 8b >>> msittner@mcn.org 07/17/03 12:10AM >>> Dear All, For several weeks I have been working on upgrading the Southern African Gladiolus wiki page and invite you all to look at some of the pictures I have added. They are scans of slides I took when we visited South Africa in August and September of 2001 and digital pictures from flowers blooming in our garden (fall, winter, spring, into summer.) There really is a very long range and I noticed that there is one spiking now in my redone raised bed. I was a little alarmed since we've had no rain since May and I was sure this one must be confused, but when I looked at the tag it was for Gladiolus monticola which is a Table Mountain species that blooms January to March in South Africa so it is the correct time. It's the first time to bloom from seed for it and it looks a bit strange coming up on spikes with no leaves and most everything else in that bed gone or brown. It looks very erect. Hopefully we'll have pictures of it to add later. I confess that we held up some of these flowers so you could see them. Many of them are hooded so there are shadows if you shoot straight on. The digital camera pictures are better than my slides. I especially like the picture Bob took of Gladiolus pappei. Hopefully some day some of the ones I am growing from seed will bloom and I can replace some of these pictures with better ones. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php