Well I hope that the ones I ordered are better then the Springhill reviews they gat a 1 star and everyone said they didnt grow!!!
I know old time glads very well.... if you did not know every year the bulb(corm) grows and blooms THEN they grow a bigger bulb on top of it and every year they get bigger and the flower stalk gets bigger and better until some will get 2 in across. But in the Chicago area they where ALWAYS dug up old dried bulb removed dried then planted in spring for flower production.....NONE ever looked like these "hardy glads" so i think yes there are 2 different.
i think that according to new hardiness zone maps would suprize a lot of people. here in Florida i was always 8B with the new zone im in 9B/-9/C I can tell you this might be true most of the time... but i still get low freeze and frost that i cant always grow the plants for my "new zone" when planting out of zone plants there are so many things to conciser.
which side of house, how much snow cover Before the hard freeze (snow actually is an insulator) it will prevent the ground from getting to deep of permafrost with the hard hard freeze.
I would not dought that some can grow flower bulbs farther north that there called for at this time if they treat them correct.
i just hope they people that ordered from me are successful in growing them.
I planted 300 glads about 5 years ago and did not have any freeze that year and i got flowers the first year but never after that! they where reg glads i was told by a old timer Hollander that grew them for over 50 years that you must take the bulbs out of the ground and clean them and ler them rest no madder where you live. or you will not get flowers every year. one old bulb rots the new bulb and kills them,.. I dont know but last ones i planted went in to pots and im going to lift them and look this year and see what they are doing. i will be planting these "hardy glads" the same way and seeing how they act.
need to read up on them they are new to me
thanks for the link
mike
