People are probably more familiar with the colourful, long-stemmed, many flowered cut gladioli flowers, but there is a wild form – Gladiolus angustus – that grows all over my garden. 🙂
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The bright purple anthers are a beautiful feature of these glisteningly white petalled flowers! 🙂
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A large clump of gladi’s mix well with some of my Cape Marguerite daisies. 🙂
Koalas find a gladiolus patch promotes peaceful meditation practice. 🙂
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Gladiolus comes from the Latin gladius meaning sword, referring to their long sword-shaped leaves.As this picture shows they probably should have named them after Arrows? 🙂 .
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The first of several buds to open.
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Three open, four yet to come on this single stalk of a glorious gladiolus. 🙂
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link to:
Cee’s Flower of the Day – October 11, 2019 – Autumn Leaf
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Oh, my, they’re beautiful — and I love the image of a koala meditating in the middle of a patch of these!
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Ommmmmmmm…. 😉
Thanks Janet. 🙂
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These are so pretty and the koala’s cute!
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Those are so pretty! How nice to have them growing all over like that. The only ones I’ve ever seen were from the florists shops. 🙂
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They grow from bulbs and they seem to set themselves (a bit like my poppies) as i seem to have more in more places each year? 🙂
I guess i’m kinda lucky like that?
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I think they’re great and would love them running wild. MUCH more than the Marguerite daisies, which are discouraged here for their damage to native flora and fauna.
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Yeah – the daisies certainly can take over if you don’t hack them back! 🙂
The gladi’s will happily grow from bulbs dug up and kept over summer/autumn! Maybe see if any neighbours can give you some?
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These are lovely
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They certainly brighten up my garden! 🙂
Thanks Derrick!
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