Among the ten most beautiful flowers of the planet will most certainly be mentioned - the gladiolus , the king of garden flowers. A bright, memorable and graceful plant is loved by many florists due to its unusual buds. These corms perennials decorate the garden and look great as a bouquet due to the variety of shades of flowers with corrugation and their large sizes. To date, the number of varieties of gladiolus has a minimum of five thousand, some of them with time cease to be popular due to reduced vitality. Other varieties, on the contrary, just win the love of gardeners. We will consider the best gladioli and their varieties.
Types of gladioli
Experienced gardeners recommend to pay their attention primarily to domestic gladioli, the varieties of which are more adapted to our climatic conditions, more enduring, have adaptive properties and unpretentiousness in care. In addition, to acquire better gladioli new varieties of new, recently bred, which will please you with a beautiful blossom. The fact is that selections of old degenerate over time.
Let's skip the most common and common varieties, it is better to talk about the most unusual representatives of gladioli domestic selection. Thus, for example, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth is pleasant with its strong corrugation and a delicate salmon-pink color that becomes more intense towards the edges of the leaves. The true favorite of flower growers - gladiolus Oscar - admires the bright red color of velvet buds and the height of the plant (up to 120 cm). The variety belongs to large-flowered gladioli, which is distinguished by fairly large triangular flowers. Grade Blue Dali surprises with infinite heavenly blue. Unusual Green Cockatoo, belonging to the early varieties of gladiolus, differs from other varieties of light-green flowers with red patches on the lower petals. Grad Kitezh paints the lawn with enchanting flowers of a gentle lilac color with a pale lime border and a yellow core. The height of plants often reaches half a meter, and in each inflorescence there are 22 buds.
Among foreign breeding, gladiolus varieties from Holland are especially distinguished. For example, the gladiolus Buccaccio amazes with the unusual chocolate color of the corrugated petals. The Belle de Nui variety, distinguished by burgundy-ink flowers with black edges of petals and white lines, is regal and noble. It is very festive and spectacular flowering variety of Inviteit. This plant with large three-colored flowers of unusual shape. Gladiolus Elena is distinguished by a pleasant apricot-pink color of triangular flowers with white veins and crimson impregnations of petals.
How to figure out among the gladiolus varietal?
In order to satisfy your aesthetic foreclosures, we recommend that you refer to the gladiolus catalogs at the places where the planting material is sold. Usually in the catalog after the name of the variety there is a cipher consisting of three characters. The first sign, as a rule, indicates the size of the gladiolus flower. It:
- 1 - miniature to 6, 5 cm in diameter;
- 2 - small-flowered, in diameter reaching 6.5-9 cm;
- 3 - medium-branched, from 9 to 11.5 cm in diameter;
- 4 - large-flowered (11.5 - 14 cm);
- 5 - giant (from 14 cm and more).
The next digit of the code indicates the coloration of the group of gladiolus colors, usually from 0 to 9: 0 - white and green, 1 - yellow, 2 - orange, etc.
Also in the code there is a designation of the terms of flowering:
- PRs are very early varieties;
- RS - early-average varieties;
- C - average;
- SP - medium late;
- P - late varieties;
- OP is very late.
In addition, the year of production and the name of the establishment are indicated.