Gladiolus pictures from Bob Werra

Mary Sue Ittner msittner@mcn.org
Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:44:22 PDT
Hi,

I split up the Southern African Gladiolus page on the wiki as it was 
getting very long. I have added some of Bob Werra's pictures to these 
pages. Many of them we already have and I hope I identified them all 
correctly as his notes on the CD had question marks by them. Feel free to 
let us know if they should be named something else.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
New pictures of Gladiolus caeruleus, Gladiolus carinatus, Gladiolus 
caryophyllaceus, Gladiolus gracilis, Gladiolus hirsutus

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
New pictures of Gladiolus venustus and a new species, Gladiolus watsonii. 
The latter is one of those former Homoglossums.

Looking at his picture of Gladiolus caryophyllaceus I was reminded that I 
saw this species in Western Australia where it has escaped. I thought it 
was very pretty and wanted to grow it. I've found it very difficult to keep 
it going. I ended up with one plant that often has sickly looking leaves. 
Bob Werra sent me seed since he grows it and now a couple years later those 
leaves don't look very good either. I am concluding that it probably 
doesn't like my wet climate and will never be invasive here.

Mary Sue


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