Q. I’ve begun my winter cleanup, and I dug up some gladiolus corms that I planted a couple of years ago so I could spread them around. I was surprised to discover that the corms, including lots of ...

The right timing Select and plant gladiolus corms now through the end of March (you can begin to plant gladiolus corms into the garden as early as late January). The foliage of glads will withstand ...

Gladiolus flowers are impossible not to spot in the garden. With their majestic spikes of eye-catching flowers, they’re a striking accent plant. They have a clumping form, with long, dramatic ...

Each spring you can purchase your gladiolus corms in the local garden center, online from commercial growers and cataloguers, or from a local gladiolus auction like the Northwestern Ohio Gladiolus ...

One of my favorite flowers to cut and bring in the house in the summer are gladiolus. A question often raised is “how do you prevent thrips in gladiolus?” Thrips seem to be the biggest pest for this ...

Gladiolus has been selected by the National Garden Bureau (NGB) as the bulb crop in its “Year of 2022” series even though it grows from corms and not bulbs. Founded in 1920, NGB is the not-for-profit ...

This week’s work in our garden includes digging up and preparing gladiolus bulbs for winter storage. Gladiolus, or glads for short, cannot survive in the ground though the winter in our area. Even ...

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Gladiolus are gorgeous, impressive, summer-blooming flowers that grow from corms. Some hardy varieties are available that survive winter weather in many USDA growing zones but others are hardy only in ...

The tall flower spikes of gladiolus add elegance to the flower garden and are simply superb as cut flowers. Derived from species native to the Mediterranean region and South Africa, the modern hybrid ...