Gladiolus Abbreviatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Watermelon There are different colour types

There are different colour types

This beauty produces 10" long tasty leeks

even in hurricane winds

applesauce and soups

Balsam is an old-fashioned annual that produces single or double flowers in the leaf axils along the main stem of the plant from summer to early autumn

Gladiolus Abbreviatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Watermelon There are different colour typesGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape