Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: Pony Girl on May 07, 2014, 08:18
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Is it too late to plant gladioli corms (not sure if that's the right terminology!) this year?
Also can they be left in the ground over winter?
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It is still fine to plant them. They will just flower a bit later than if they had been in the ground already, although they may catch up a fair bit. They are fine to go through the winter, especially in the south near the sea.
Maarten
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In fact if you stagger their planting, you get a good succession of flowers.
The only problem with them staying in the ground over winter is the huge number of tiny offshoots that then grow all around the big corm: they come up like blades of grass :ohmy:
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One of the best flowers you can have as far as I am concerned. Brilliant as a cut flower. Agree with sunshineband 100% about leaving them in over winter, best to get them up if you can.