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!)
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

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
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

In article , Sacha
writes

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

But the one Sean had today was

http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230

an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike
the normal papilio which I also have and admire.

--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
...
In article , Sacha
writes

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

But the one Sean had today was

http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230

an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike
the normal papilio which I also have and admire.

--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Unfortunately while Ruby will bulk up in pots and is therefore easy to
produce it does not in the garden behave like the fabulous papilio which as
you know spreads rapidly but rather forms many small corms which then either
die or take years to reach flowering size, I have tried twice now to get it
to grow in an area papilio does well but it has disappeared on both
occasions.
But it is a stunning colour (and takes a good picture!)

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea

On 13/7/07 00:52, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes

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

But the one Sean had today was

http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230

an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike
the normal papilio which I also have and admire.

That is *gorgeous* - what a colour! I'll have to see if our bulb supplier
has that but I think it's unlikely. Definitely a 'must have' - thank you,
Janet.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On 13/7/07 08:18, in article , "Charlie
Pridham" wrote:


"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
...
In article , Sacha
writes

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

But the one Sean had today was

http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230

an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike
the normal papilio which I also have and admire.

--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Unfortunately while Ruby will bulk up in pots and is therefore easy to
produce it does not in the garden behave like the fabulous papilio which as
you know spreads rapidly but rather forms many small corms which then either
die or take years to reach flowering size, I have tried twice now to get it
to grow in an area papilio does well but it has disappeared on both
occasions.
But it is a stunning colour (and takes a good picture!)

We planted some G. papilio in the border along the house, opposite the tea
room lawn. It came up once, was greatly admired and has never been seen
since. Ray has some others in pots, fortunately. Do you find it doesn't
like competition. There is a lot of Crocosmia 'Krakatoa' in that area and
our guess is that it's just swamped the gladiolus. And are you selling
either/both of those glads? ;-)
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 13/7/07 08:18, in article , "Charlie
Pridham" wrote:


"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
...
In article , Sacha
writes

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

But the one Sean had today was

http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230

an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike
the normal papilio which I also have and admire.

--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Unfortunately while Ruby will bulk up in pots and is therefore easy to
produce it does not in the garden behave like the fabulous papilio which
as
you know spreads rapidly but rather forms many small corms which then
either
die or take years to reach flowering size, I have tried twice now to get
it
to grow in an area papilio does well but it has disappeared on both
occasions.
But it is a stunning colour (and takes a good picture!)

We planted some G. papilio in the border along the house, opposite the tea
room lawn. It came up once, was greatly admired and has never been seen
since. Ray has some others in pots, fortunately. Do you find it doesn't
like competition. There is a lot of Crocosmia 'Krakatoa' in that area and
our guess is that it's just swamped the gladiolus. And are you selling
either/both of those glads? ;-)
--
Sacha

We have to dig loads of G. papilio out each year as its invasive and has a
running habit and will seed if allowed, although fortunately it never kills
other plants. here it will even grow in quite deep shade (although it never
flowers there) I am suspecting it likes our dry soils (as I recall you are
wet in places) we do not find it the slightest bit tender as it does not
come up in spring until late and its only drawback is a tendency to be
individualist in so much as its direction of lean giving a somewhat erratic
look to the clump! Ruby I have given up on, I never feel comfortable selling
something I can not grow.
Many garden visitors have tried to get papilio to flower and failed and I
can not see why it is so easy, we grow it with cannas, hedychiums and for a
bit of earlier colour, Tritilaria, which grows in amongst it.
And yes we sell some to visitors!

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea

In article , Charlie Pridham
writes


Unfortunately while Ruby will bulk up in pots and is therefore easy to
produce it does not in the garden behave like the fabulous papilio which as
you know spreads rapidly but rather forms many small corms which then either
die or take years to reach flowering size, I have tried twice now to get it
to grow in an area papilio does well but it has disappeared on both
occasions.

Oh ... poo .....................




But it is a stunning colour (and takes a good picture!)



Not 'arf and people will buy it in droves not realising it won't be any
good in the garden!
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Charlie Pridham
writes

Many garden visitors have tried to get papilio to flower and failed and I
can not see why it is so easy, we grow it with cannas, hedychiums and for a
bit of earlier colour, Tritilaria, which grows in amongst it.
And yes we sell some to visitors!



I grow p. in pots and just shove them into gaps when they flower, they
always seem to need splitting so I have some to give away by the autumn
as well! Not tried it actually in the ground but might use a pot or two
to experiment now you say it likes dry conditions.
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk