The flower was not one I learned about in my youth by gardening. Once I may have tried anything to make the back rocky slope take color and the Norway maple and clay soil made a fail of everything including the test glads. When I travelled to Brazil I stayed long enough to attend a wedding with a humble bouquet of wildflowers and an elderly man's funeral at nearly100 years old, His wife had died a month earlier. In his wooden coffin he lay with a covering of pink gladiolus and they were nearly as tall as him. At my wedding I asked the florist to make an arrangement for the reception with pink glads in the center but messages get misconstrued and roses would have to do. Now, trying to grow glads, knowing nothing the six corms were planted on a fence that gets morning sun to mid day sun and although they were marked my husband ran the lawnmower over the lowly patch but all six grew back the next year. This mini success has me trying again and the winters here are borderline 7 and a fail is quite expected this year. I bought 60 this time and am grateful of the heads up about their water sensitivity as my neighbor's downspout aims near the fence line and I have to be more careful where I plant again.
The flower was not one I learned about in my youth by gardening. Once I may have tried anything to make the back rocky slope take color and the Norway maple and clay soil made a fail of everything including the test glads. When I travelled to Brazil I stayed long enough to attend a wedding with a humble bouquet of wildflowers and an elderly man's funeral at nearly100 years old, His wife had died a month earlier. In his wooden coffin he lay with a covering of pink gladiolus and they were nearly as tall as him. At my wedding I asked the florist to make an arrangement for the reception with pink glads in the center but messages get misconstrued and roses would have to do. Now, trying to grow glads, knowing nothing the six corms were planted on a fence that gets morning sun to mid day sun and although they were marked my husband ran the lawnmower over the lowly patch but all six grew back the next year. This mini success has me trying again and the winters here are borderline 7 and a fail is quite expected this year. I bought 60 this time and am grateful of the heads up about their water sensitivity as my neighbor's downspout aims near the fence line and I have to be more careful where I plant again.