Gladiolus cultivar group help needed
J.E. Shields (Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:47:08 PDT)
I've noticed that a pot of Gladiolus "primulinus" I have looks fairly
similar to the G. x-gandavensis I have growing out in the garden. Note
that the gandavensis are hardy outdoors in the ground here in central
Indiana (USDA cold zone 5). I have not had the courage to test my
primulinus outdoors in the ground. Jim McK., are yours outdoors in the
ground year-round?
I have a couple surviving G. oppositiflorus saundersii that have survived
many years (i.e., 5 to 10) outdoors in the ground all year round in my garden.
Jim Shields
in central Indiana (USA)
At 10:50 AM 8/17/2009 -0400, you wrote:
.......
I'm growing a beautiful hybrid glad called 'Halley" or 'Nanus Halley'. Other
than being a glad, it has little in common with the other "nanus" hybrids I
know.
What it suggests to me is what in the old days were known as "primulinus
hybrids", a group characterized by soft pastel colors including pale yellows
and oranges. This group had another characteristic: the uppermost tepal
tended to droop down a bit, as if to protect the stamens and stigma from
rain. My 'Halley' also shows this characteristic. And it's like the old
primulinus hybrids in another respect: the tall (thirty inch) scapes are
gracefully flexuous and have widely spaced individual flowers.
.......
Jim McKenney
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