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Gladiolus 'Priscilla' is a cultivar of Gladiolus (Gladiolus x gandavensis, [1]) which has tri-colored flowers. They have a white ruffled flowers with pink edges, and a soft yellow throat. [ 2 ] The florets (6 - 7 per stem) are arranged on strong and erect spikes adorned by pointed sword-like leaves.
Gladiolus is the birth flower of August. [21] Gladioli are the flowers associated with a fortieth wedding anniversary. American Ragtime composer Scott Joplin composed a rag called “Gladiolus Rag” [22] "Gladiolus" was the word Frank Neuhauser correctly spelled to win the 1st National Spelling Bee in 1925. [23]
Gladiolus 'Princess Margaret Rose' is a cultivar of Gladiolus which features fiery hot colors, a mix of red, orange and yellow flowers. [1] The ruffled blossoms are arranged closely and symmetrically on strong and erect spikes adorned by pointed sword-like leaves.
Gladiolus dalenii is a species of flowering plant in the iris family Iridaceae. It is one of the most widely distributed species of Gladiolus, ranging from eastern South Africa and Madagascar throughout tropical Africa and into western Arabia. [1] It is the main parental species of the large flowering grandiflora hybrids.
The mostly six to fourteen flowers are set in a spike, each subtended by two green to dark purple flushed bracts, which are usually 4–7½ cm long at the low end and 1½–5 cm at the tip of the spike. The flowers are scarlet red, with some yellow on the inside, and green on the outside, near the base in a fresh flower.
The flowers appear from late-winter to spring (populations at lower altitudes flower earlier). They are fragrant and can be a range of colours: blue, greyish, white or pink. The flower's corolla tube is short, and there is a band of yellow (often with darker outline) horizontally across the three bottom tepals. [1]
Formal, large gardens of bedding plants, as seen in parks and municipal displays, where whole flower beds are replanted two or three times a year, is a costly and labor-intensive process. Towns and cities are encouraged to produce impressive displays by campaigns such as " Britain in bloom " [ 4 ] or " America in Bloom ". [ 5 ]