Hi Mike, your hybrids, both Moraeas and wg Gladioli are fantastic! In my garden,in a dry med.climate in Cataluya, Spain, I have been testing many south african bulbs for years. Among Moraea, specially M.polystachia and polyanthos do grow well( they even naturalize here), and Homeria collina. Have you got hybrids of these species? Among wg Gladioli, I was successful with G.floribundus and G. tristis, for example. I even tried to cross G. floribundus with G. illyricus or byzanthinus and I had seeds .New plants are growing in my garden, but I am not sure they will be crosses or just G .floribundus. Wait and see. Have you tried hybrids with G.floribundus? It seems to adapt well here and it could a good mother plant for dry med climates.... Regards and again, congratulations! Guy > Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:07:19 -0800 > From: mikerumm@gmail.com > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Re: [pbs] New winter-growing Gladiolus hybrids, and a Calochortus > > Your hybrids are beautiful, Mike. > > Regards, > Mike Rummerfield > Washington State > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Michael Mace <michaelcmace@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I've been experimenting casually with hybridizing some of the > > winter-growing > > Gladiolus species from South Africa. Some of the crosses have come out very > > nicely. To me they look a bit like Alstroemerias, with rich colors and a > > lot > > of contrasting streaks and stripes. But they're easier for me to grow. (In > > my climate, Alstroemerias tend to die out unless they get some summer > > water, > > whereas the winter-growing Glads are happy with total summer dryness.) > > > > I finally found the time to post photos of the results from spring 2015. > > You > > can see the best ones here: > > > > http://bit.ly/1NBRPWe/ > > > > I also posted photos of a couple of Calochortus hybrids: > > > > http://bit.ly/1YAE5Ni/ > > > > Mike > > San Jose, CA > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/