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Gladiolus ×colvillii
Gladiolus × colvillii, the scarlet gladiolus, is a small spring-flowering hybrid bulb cultivar (usually about 40 cm tall) grown from corms, with flowers ranging from white to pink or orange-red. Grow it in full sun in well-drained soil, planting corms in spring after frost.
Gladiolus × colvillii, the scarlet gladiolus, is a hybrid Gladiolus cultigen.
The original Gladiolus × colvillii was bred by the nurseryman James Colville of Chelsea, London from the southern African species G. tristis and G. cardinalis and first described in 1823; it is still cultivated. It has deep pink flowers with a cream stripe on each of the lower three tepals.
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