x Homoglad 'West Coast Hybrid'
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9th May 2008
Homoglossum watsonianum is a charming red flowered bulb from South Africa, and when it is crossed with Gladiolus tristis it produces
these delightful hybrids!
In the carnival of naming things rarely remain stable for long, and so it has been with Homoglossum. Rather like that last mouthful of Christmas turkey,
it has been squeezed into the bloated body of Gladiolus and so technically, these are no longer intergeneric hybrids, but I am going to keep the name
until it is quite clear that Gladiolus isn't going to burst!
10th April 2009
When I bought the plant, I got a great potful of bulbs, and I don't know if it was a single clone or a potful of seedlings,
so I don't know if this is the same plant as last year, behaving differently now it is established, or
a yellower seedling flowering.
16th May 2010
23rd April 2021