chocolate scented - Gladiolus Nanus Hybrids

Roy M. Sachs rmsachs@ucdavis.edu
Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:00:31 PDT
>I have discovered something about Gladiolus nanus.  One of my bulb
>books lists it as a species, but several more recent ones say this
>instead:
>
>Gladiolus X colvillei (G. tristis X cardinalis) syn G. nanus hort.
>Nanus Hybrids  Various colours from white to crimson and mauve.
>Hardy in only the mildest gardens of southern and western England.
>
>So the scent must have come from tristis, but I have never smelled
>it.  Also, I have only the one Nanus, so I don't know whether others
>of them are scented.  I shall buy some more this fall when bulbs
>arrive in the garden centres.

If we're talking about Gladiolus nanus hybrids, similar to the 
hundreds that I bought way back in 1990 or so, in several colors, all 
relatively reduced in stature and floret size, then I would have to 
caution members about their propensity to acquire a virus disease 
(probably one of the mosaics in the Davis area, probably from aphids 
or thrips)

In 3 years I lost all but a very and they looked as if they had maybe 
one more year of life.  Not even in the first year, when they were 
quite beautiful, were any of them scented

Roy


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