Gladiolus

Three years ago, my wife Mary and I didn’t know the name of one gladiolus from another in our garden.  The North American Gladiolus Council was holding a glad show

Whether you grow gladiolus for show or pleasure, you’ll want prizewinning beauties. So here’s my year-round plan for producing the kind of flowers you’ll be proud to display. Growing Calendar

For many years, fragrance in garden gladiolus eluded hybridizers. After various growers had spent 125 years obtaining fragrant garden gladiolus.  Dean William Ilerbert of England produced his hybrid, GLADIOLUS FRAGRANS—a

As a gladiolus enthusiast, I firmly believe there is no other flower with a better claim to a place in your backyard. Glads come in a greater variety of colors,

Everything a cut flower ought to be, the gladiolus is infinitely varied, powerful, strong in arrangements, or light as a butterfly. It is long-lived and stays fresh in water for

Have you ever wondered how your gladiolus would rate in a gladiolus show? Then why not judge your own? First, get out the catalog from which you ordered. It is

Gladiolus (glad-ee-OH-lus), also known as “glads,” is a perennial cormous flowering plant belonging to the genus Gladiolus and family Iridaceae, commonly known as the Iris family. The genus name Gladiolus

When you stop to think about it, a discussion on growing prize-winning gladiolus is quite similar to one on playing contract bridge. Neither game is nearly as confounding as the

Question: The catalogs list so many varieties and they all look so good, how do I know which to buy for my region? Answer: Most of the varieties on the