On 12/7/07 20:17, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote:

Have just been visiting The Plant Specialist a nursery near here as it
was the NGS day.
Lovely afternoon here in Amersham and a lot of hardy plants were in
great flower!
Sean showed us a plant he has just acquired (stock won't be available
until next year) a beautiful gladiolus papillio "Ruby"
An intense magenta colour and very striking. Everyone saw it in his
nursery stock and was asking about it.
Mind you I also saw Twining's After Eight dahlia for the first time and
a lovely Erigeron called "sommerneuschnee" and bought both as I was
looking for something white to stand out in the evening garden.

Anyone tried any of these plants? Are they successful?

Janet (off to see how many Erigerons I can make from 1 purchase!)

We have Gladiolus papilo and planted it in one of the borders where it got
swamped by some Crocosmia. It's an absolutely beautiful plant and entirely
unlike the Edna Everage types.
http://www.theafricangarden.com/gladioluspapilo.jpg
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Sacha
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'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'