Gladiolus Old Fort Dionaea (aka: Amorphophallus saururus #1

(aka: Amorphophallus saururus #1

wine-red flowers hanging just below the leaf

where they have achieved a height of 18'

dark green stalk

The lavender flowers top the 18" wide clump in late summer and often into fall

Gladiolus Old Fort Dionaea (aka: Amorphophallus saururus #1The 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