acidanthera

Also, with acidanthera, the bigger the bulbs the better.

Another dramatic summer flower is the acidanthera, which suggest gladiolus.

The flowers of the acidanthera are white splashed with a dark maroon throat.

Gladiolus and acidanthera corms are happiest at around 60 degrees.

It was formerly placed in the genus Acidanthera.

In my own experience, acidanthera really does prefer to be grown in groups in containers.

Inexpensive acidanthera corms are widely available in spring, but you can also increase your supply by saving this year's crop.

Acidanthera, the Abyssinian gladiolus, is another daughter-maker that usually fails to rebloom.

The species was first described as Acidanthera bicolor by Christian Hochstetter in 1844.

Acidanthera, from Africa, is like gladiolus, but has spikes of white, four-inch fragrant flowers with maroon throats.

One-Headed Wonder Q. This year I planted acidanthera for the first time.

If planted in spring, Acidanthera will bloom in July and August, and sometimes until frost.

In 1973, Wessel Marais included the genus Acidanthera in Gladiolus.

Olympic Glory's dam Acidanthera won one minor race, but came from a good family being a descendant of the broodmare Violetta.

A. Acidanthera bicolor, the Abyssinian gladiolus, is now Gladiolus callianthus.

The acidanthera (scented gladioli) I planted in pots flowered really well, but those that I planted directly in the ground did not – why?

The genera Acidanthera, Anomalesia, Homoglossum, and Oenostachys, formerly considered distinct, are now included in Gladiolus.

The containers have done well this season, too; agapanthus and acidanthera following on from madonna and regarlilies, and a lovely pink dwarf lily "Mr Sam".

A. Acidanthera, a k a Abyssinian gladiolus (Gladiolus callianthus), will not make more than one flowering stem unless the bulblike corm is unusually large.

Acidanthera, which botanists place in the Gladiolus genus, looks like a species gladiolus, with flowers far more delicate than those big hybrid glads that show up in funeral parlors.

The species is often still offered for sale under the name Acidanthera bicolor, sometimes with murielae added as an infraspecific name, or even as the cultivar name 'Murielae'.

Ixia, a South African native with starry six-petal flowers, is in the Iridaceae family (like Acidanthera and Gladiolus) and are similar in their graceful, understated habit.

That other gladiolus, the fabulously scented Acidanthera: Avon Bulbs will be offering these for sale for delivery before Christmas again this year, after the success of the offer highlighted on this page last year.

If you yearn for fragrance as well, opt for acidanthera, recently redesignated as Gladiolus callianthus, with white maroon-marked nodding star-shaped blossoms on long spikes, a 19th-century heirloom that has slipped back into the limelight.

I have a friend who, when persuaded to stick his nose deep into a chalk-white, maroon-throated flower of that heavenly-scented gladiolus Acidanthera murielae (oops, I nearly forgot to include that one) and breathe deeply, stares at me uncomprehendingly.