Gladiolus Old Fort Dionaea requiring virtually no care in

requiring virtually no care in the garden

Each flower remains open only until noon

Hosta 'Risky Business' forms a dense 2' wide clump in short order

(aka: Amorphophallus saururus #1

Gladiolus Old Fort Dionaea requiring virtually no care inThe year was 2004, the highway, Interstate 40, the exit, Old Fort, NC. Though it isn't advertised, old Ford vans can go from 60 mph to 0 in just a few seconds as I can attest when I saw this long abandoned gladiolus growing by the guardrail just outside Asheville, NC. Upon closer inspection, it was not the Gladiolus dalenii often found in southern gardens, but an old garden hybrid a very winter hardy hybrid. Back in our trial gardens, Gladiolus 'Old