Identifying a Volunteer Galdiolus
John Grimshaw (Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:38:21 PDT)

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

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