My brother-in-law has forty acres that are used for hay and right near the middle is a swatch under some oak trees full of flaming orange gladiolus. They must be from an old homestead because there are literally thousands of them flourishing where the hay mowers don't go. We pulled at least 100 bulbs and it didn't even look like we touched them.
If you can find any info on them, they are most likely an old Genus long before all the cultivars came along. The blooms appear to be small, now they are cultivated to have larger and larger blooms. So glad your brother in law is protecting them and that you got some to keep too. My imagination runs with me sometimes...when the couple or family got to their land they got some sort of house built and they planted the first of those Glads to make it a home. Most likely brought them from Mother or Grandmothers garden to have as a reminder.
Amazing! Like Toni, my imagination begins to wonder about the people that lived there and how happy they must have been to plant those first few bulbs.... I've never seen a spread of glads like that but have seen many old homesteads with daffodils and lilacs
How lovely, and they look like they are all perfectly spaced too! Glads wouldn't survive here, but we often see orange daylily's around old homesteads.
