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12:46 pm
April 1, 2009
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Hello--I would like to plant some "glads" is it to late in the season to do so?
2:21 pm
December 14, 2010
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No.
2:25 pm
December 14, 2010
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I planted a bag of home depot glads about twenty years ago and each spring I rake up the dead tops and compost them and each summer I cut the blooms for the house. That is all the care they get or have gotten. Our winters can put a foot of frost in the ground or none at all.
3:17 pm
December 14, 2010
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Folks who have OCD gardening problems plant a group of glads every two weeks for a couple of months so that they get a long blooming season. I just enjoy them while they are here.
6:03 pm
April 1, 2009
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Thank you Ross. I am hoping the bulbs are still available, I am going to stop at the garden center and Lowes, I am hoping to find them. The last time I planted any glads was about 30 years ago they were so big I had to stake them. I am looking forward to having them again.
9:37 pm
December 28, 2008
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Don't know this as an absolute fact, but evidently there are different kinds of glads. Perhaps even a wide variety of them.
Grew up with everyone having gladiolas in their gardens. All they did was put them in the ground and they came up year after year. When I tried, the best I ever had was a single season. Tried again last year, they were lovely, and they are looking pretty good now. Keep fingers crossed!
So, obviously I know next to nothing about glads! But, I would get them into the ground pretty soon. Mine look like they are about ready to send up blossom stems – the leaves are over 2 feet high already!
10:20 pm
December 14, 2010
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I think that my neglect results in a self mulching for the winter effect. They are located on a south facing sheltered from the west patch. I have been astonished that they have done so well.
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