I can't suggest what is - although it looks like one of the Colvilei hybrids, but I can hazard an explanation for a route to its odd location... Here we have quite a problem with squirrels planting horse chestnuts (Aesculus) in pots and any other loose ground as they bury them in autumn for recovery later: they vigorous young saplings spring up next year and are quite a nuisance. I have also had pots of Crocus banaticus corms ravaged by mice and assumed that they were all in their bellies, but have later found them popping up in other plants' pots, so they too must have been stored for later reference. So perhaps a rodent has carried off a corm of the mnmystery Gladiolus from somewhere and buried it in a convenient pot of soil. John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Tel. 01242 870567 COLESBOURNE PARK OPEN DAYS 2007 Easter Monday 9 April, Arboretum Weekend 15-16 September Gates open 1pm, last entry 4 pm website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Identifying a Volunteer Galdiolus > Dear Donna, > > First of all welcome to the PBS list. We have a number of members who live > in Texas. > > Your Gladiolus is very pretty and it's very strange how it could have > arrived if you don't have Gladiolus in your garden and you mix your own > soil. I