Gladiolus pictures from Bob Werra
Mary Sue Ittner (Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:44:22 PDT)

Hi,

I split up the Southern African Gladiolus page on the wiki as it was
getting very long. I have added some of Bob Werra's pictures to these
pages. Many of them we already have and I hope I identified them all
correctly as his notes on the CD had question marks by them. Feel free to
let us know if they should be named something else.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
New pictures of Gladiolus caeruleus, Gladiolus carinatus, Gladiolus
caryophyllaceus, Gladiolus gracilis, Gladiolus hirsutus

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
New pictures of Gladiolus venustus and a new species, Gladiolus watsonii.
The latter is one of those former Homoglossums.

Looking at his picture of Gladiolus caryophyllaceus I was reminded that I
saw this species in Western Australia where it has escaped. I thought it
was very pretty and wanted to grow it. I've found it very difficult to keep
it going. I ended up with one plant that often has sickly looking leaves.
Bob Werra sent me seed since he grows it and now a couple years later those
leaves don't look very good either. I am concluding that it probably
doesn't like my wet climate and will never be invasive here.

Mary Sue