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Posted by mrs_tr3lly5 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 7, 06 at 1:09
| What do I do with my gladioli now the season is over? They are still strikingly upright if not so green and rather tatty. Do I just leave them or can I move them?
I want to do something about the patch they are in. |
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RE: Gladioli
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| Shouldn't you dig them up and store them? Gladioli (except G. byzantinus) never seem to to turn up the following year in my garden, so I assumed they were not very hardy. Anyway, if the leaves don't look very green anymore you may as well cut them off and tidy them up as they won't be doing any work for the plant. |
RE: Gladioli
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| Drainage, nerd. Gladioli are completely cold hardy in England, but they don't like being waterlogged. Watch out for the modern hybrids, reputed to be less hardy than older ones, although I haven't had one fail yet. I was just pulling the tops of my Gladioli today. If you pull and the corm comes up with it then they aren't quite ready yet :) |
RE: Gladioli
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| Hmm, that's odd. I wouldn't have said my garden was waterlogged. Oh well, never mind, I'm not mad about glads, anyway. |
RE: Gladioli
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| Thanks all. I'll take a look at them tomorrow if the weather is fine enough and leave them out there. Although the garden does get very wet in winter. They are up against a fence and there is enough concrete in it to dry things out rather too well in summer. They put on a nice enough show and would have be splendid intersown with nasturtiums had I got started in the season earlier enough. I just caught the hot dry weather and things took a long time to come around. |
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