have you tried growing gladioli? and Mahonia siamensis #1

have you tried growing gladioli?

how wide did your gladiolus grow?

how many times did it bloom? (not the number of flowers but the number of times it bloomed during the summer or during its peak blooming season>

how many flower stalks did it have?


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Answer by Rino M
Gladioli grow about 3 inches wide, but they can be 3 feet tall.

However, they bloom for a very short period, quite like tulips. In 2 and half weeks they completed flowering the last flower of their inflorescence.

Gladioli bloom only once a year in April or May. Once the long stalk (which is 99% of the times only one per plant) has finished to bloom its flowers, it's all done.

I like that plant because it's absolutely beautiful, but it's important to have other plants ready to substitute it during summer with their bloom at their place.

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Mahonia siamensis #1


Berberidaceae - W. China, Thailand
Siam Hollygrape, Siam Mahonia
Shown: Growth habit with clustered inflorescences in bud stage

"Mahonia is a genus of about 70 species of evergreen shrubs in the family Berberidaceae, native to eastern Asia, the Himalayas, North America and Central America. They are closely related to the genus Berberis. Botanists disagree on the acceptability of the genus name Mahonia. Several authorities argue plants in this genus should be included in the genus Berberis because several species in both genera are able to hybridize, and because when the two genera are looked at as a whole, there is no definite morphological separation.[1] Mahonia typically have large, pinnate leaves 10-50 cm long with 5-15 leaflets, and flowers in racemes(5-20 cm long).

"The genus name Mahonia honors the Philadelphia horticulturist Bernard McMahon who introduced the plant from materials collected by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

"The type species of the genus is Mahonia aquifolium, (Oregon-grape) from the Pacific coast of North America. The species name aquifolium attributes the leaf to be holly like and means wet foliage." (Wikipedia)

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Photographed in San Francisco Botanical Garden - San Francisco, California

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