Gladioli fight ! join in PLEASE

Please remember this year is my first ever garden and i'm greener than the lawn (which is pretty green at the mo)

When we got our garden i got some cheap gladioli bulbs from a local pound shop and banged them along the fence. To my suprise they did very well and all topped 5ft. They have now finished or are near to finishing. I started lifting the ones that are finished as i was lead to believe they should be wrapped in paper and over wintered dry in the greenhouse. I believe in feb you remove the daughter bits off the sides and then pot them? Not sure what you then do with the origonal bulb.

Anyway one of our friends came round and said you leave them in all year round or they die off.

so.........
Do i lift them (if so how do i store/re plant) or leave them alone?


thanks for any suggestions

 

Hi

Dig them up dry them in the greenhose shake off all the old soil , but then you will have to keep them frost free so not in the greenhouse over winter in the house will be better (in paper bags not plastic they may sweat and rot and left out in the garden all year you may have one or two that grow but after a season or two you would have one left and certainly no flowers

Buy your friend a gsrdening book for xmas


Spruce

 

Only thing I know about Gladioli is that they were named after the Roman Stabbing Sword on account of the leaf shape.

Now we are talking about Gladioli fights:runhills:

 

The only thing I know about Gladioli is that I planted a load last year and not one of 'em could even be bothered to stick it's head above the soil, consequently they didn't get lifted 'cos I forgot where most of them were and assumed they'd rotted. Two came up this year and were just about to open when the wind blew them down - yes I know I should have supplied a support but it was blowing a force 10 and the rain was horizontal. Actually, that's two things I know about Gladis, the second being I'm not bothering with them again!!

 

Wisdom comes with experience.
Fidgetsmum is twice as wise now, after only 1 experience.

I'm sure if she tried again she would be doubly sure.

My problem is that I just bought loads of cheap Gladioli - and I'm worried I might be able to add further to her wisdom

 

I bought a load of small Gladioli from Poundland in the spring and they have been amazing ,pretty well everyone flowered ,I have used them as cut flower and still have a few in bud ..I will dig up in a couple of weeks and dry off and keep frrost free till next year,as they were small not sure as yet what the new corm size will be ..fingers crossed ..will post again when I lift them ..

Dave

 

Planted lots of Glads this year, all at correct depth, most have grown to about 18" tall,
but not one flower !!!!!!! help needed please.

 

Hi Eric

Its either the corms too small to flower this year or the manky summer we have had did you plant in full sun for most of the day they hate the shade
PS Welcome to GC
Spruce

 

I always leave mine in ,these are this years showing I picked before this round of bad weather flattened them http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn74/pamsdish/DSCN1890.jpg

 

They look fab , I always thought you had to dig them up in the Autumn otherwise the frost etc would kill them off

Spruce

 

So do I.
I'm going to move them this year though. They're getting hidden by other stuff.