Dear PBSers, One of the benefits of joining the PBS is the Seed/Bulb exchange, but it also includes a subscription to the quarterly newsletter "The Bulb Garden". For years I've grown hardy glads and baffled by the names G. italicus, communis and byzantinus. Now that Angelo Porcelli explained the differences in a recent 'Bulb Garden' I was able to ID every hardy glad that has bloomed this spring. With today's opening of G. communis , they finally all make sense. Thank you Angelo Thank you Bulb Garden Thank you PBS All's right in my Gladiolus 'world'. Best Jim -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +