Joe, Interesting. I bought bulbs of Gladiolus Boone from an Old House Gardens many many years before. I like its smaller size and old fashioned yellow color tone for my arrangement. Later I found that they were naturally (?) hybridized in old house somewhere in NC. Cases Cove in NC is the place for original G. boone? I bought G. dalenii seeds from Silverhill Seeds many times to make my own G. boone, but no progress so far. G. dalenni has wide color variation from green, red, orange and yellow. G. gandavensis that you saw in SC must come from the ancestor, red color G. dalenni. I wish to share some bulbs of G. gandavensis red in SC and G. gandavensis yellow in NC. I could not find the picture of G. gandavensis that you attached. *Makiko Goto-Widerman* Makiko Floral Design Garden Club 501 c 3 5950 Alpine Road Portola Valley, CA 94028 (650) 275-4334 MFDgardenclub@gmail.com http://www.mfdgardenclub.us/ <MFDgardenclub@gmail.com> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 12:18 PM Joe G <joseph.andrew.gorman@gmail.com> wrote: > On my way to a friend's wedding in early May of this year, I saw numerous > and diversely colored Gladiolus growing in the median and along the > right-of-ways of I-95 in southern South Carolina. > > According to the USDA PLANTS database and from iNaturalist observations, > these were Gladiolus x gandavensis, though the colors more strongly > resembled Gladiolus dalenii to my eye at 70mph than the G. x gandavensis I > know. Brilliant scarlet, bicolors, sometimes huge monoculture clumps > outcompeting native vegetation at random in disturbed areas. > > Though regarded as invasive in South Carolina, I'm thinking they might be > more tame (but still hardy) in the mountains of Southwest Virginia where I > live - there's some famous ancient populations of Gladiolus x gandavensis > in Cases Cove, NC not far from me, and the clone 'Boone' from Boone, NC, > all in much more muted pastel colors. > > I was wondering if anyone else on this list has seen the populations I saw, > verified their species ID, and/or dug any up to grow for yourself. I > attached a picture of a lone red glad amid recently cleared palmettos in > the median near Ridgeland, SC (32°28'21.7"N 80°58'25.3"W). > > -joe > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…