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 ...

Whether you're already a gardening enthusiast or ready to pick up your first trowel, knowing how to plant gladiolus bulbs in pots will ensure the greatest chance of a stunning floral display. While ...

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 ...

Question: This is my first year growing gladiolus in Central Florida. Up north, we dug the bulbs. What should I do here? Answer: Florida gardeners and many in the more southern states have the option ...

A. Gladiolus bulbs are not true bulbs; they are corms (swollen root stems). Dig up the corms 6 to 8 weeks after bloom or when frost kills foliage. This is after the leaves turn yellow. Dig with a ...

Flowering bulbs can add interesting form, texture and color to a landscape. However, different bulbs require different care. If gardeners planted spring or summer flowering bulbs for the first time ...

Gladioli reach the end of their flowering season around the end of October when they go dormant until the following summer. While the tall blooms are just as easy to grow as tulips and most other ...

The first of my summer gladiolus began to bloom this week. Hooray. I grow them out of a sense of respect and remembrance to my mother’s parents who grew row after row of the spectacularly colored, ...