[pbs] Tropical African Gladiolus
Tony Avent
tony at plantdelights.com
Fri Mar 9 10:39:12 EST 2007
Jim:
All of the Acidanthera/Gladiolus that we've ever grown flowers very late
here...early-mid October.
Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA
Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
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Jim McKenney wrote:
> Tony Avent asked: "G. murielae is marginal here and we will loose it in a
> cold (below 10
> degrees F) winter. Do you have any idea where in the range the material
> in the trade came from? Low or high elevations? I've often wondered if
> there couldn't be material found with better winter hardiness."
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> I don't know the answers to Tony's questions, but they remind me of
> something I read recently. Somewhere recently I read that what we now call
> Galdiolus murielae was introduced by a major bulb company in 1928.
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> That does not sit well with me, although part of the answer may have to do
> with just what you consider G. murielae to be.
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> Already in the nineteenth century the plant then known as Acidanthera
> bicolor was in cultivation, and for most of my life the commercial material
> has been called Acidanthera bicolor murielae.
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> There is another sort of evidence that there have been multiple
> introductions. Most older books, in discussing these plants, mention that
> they are very late blooming. Is that because writers were simply repeating
> the experience reported by growers in comparatively cooler northwestern
> Europe? Or is it because so many of the early American books were based on
> experience on New England, where the summers are shorter?
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> I've often wondered if the introduction and eventual popularity of stocks
> under the name murielae was occasioned by an earlier bloom time.
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> Jim McKenney
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