WOW!!! And these are varieties of gladioli of Russian selection!!!

Varieties of gladioli of Russian selection!!!

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Gladiolus is an extremely popular flower in our country! Have you ever wondered why?

— An incredible range of different colors;

— The elegance and grace of the flower is simply unrealistically beautiful;

— More than 5,000 different varieties, so even collectors have plenty to roam around here;

But, unfortunately, not all varieties bred by foreign breeders can be successfully grown in the conditions of central Russia. Many of us do not take root or bloom poorly and have weak bulbs.

Well, what about our dear Russian breeders, you ask?

Everyone who is familiar with the achievements of world selection of gladioli and who understands these majestic flowers knows: there are no better Russian varieties of gladioli in the world! Gladioli bred in Russia are rightfully considered one of the most beautiful in the world. Colorfulness, unusualness, variety of shades, size of flowers, duration of flowering, resistance to temperature fluctuations and diseases are the undoubted achievements of Russian selection. Therefore, most gardeners prefer to purchase Russian, domestic planting material.

After all, our Russian flowers often win as planting material, in the beauty of plants, in winter hardiness and the general vitality of bulbs and corms.

History of varieties

There are many legends about these proud and beautiful plants. The Romans are sure that this is the flower of gladiators. According to tradition, gladiolus is a male flower that is reminiscent of chivalry, the real king of any victory.

According to one of the old legends, it was gladioli that miraculously grew from the swords of Frankish soldiers who were captured by the Romans. In those distant times, when there was a difficult struggle between the Franks and the Romans, the latter won. Their commander captured the brave and courageous Frankish warriors, deciding to make them gladiators. Two young captives somehow imperceptibly became friends; they both missed their homeland, did not understand why they were made slaves, and regretted their lost freedom.

When the commander found out about this friendship, he decided to punish them and, at the same time, come up with entertainment for the public. He forced his friends to enter into a fierce battle among themselves, promising to give the winner freedom and permission to go home. Thousands of people gathered to watch this fight. Sevta and Teresa were called to battle by the sounds of trumpets, but the guys refused to fight. The young warriors simultaneously stuck their swords into the ground and embraced in one impulse, expecting a painful death. The crowd went wild, the trumpets did not stop sounding, but the young people did not do what the commander demanded of them. Because of disobedience, they were put to death, but immediately after their bodies fell to the ground, the swords of the warriors instantly took root and blossomed, turning into flowers of amazing beauty before the eyes of surprised people. In honor of two gladiator friends with amazing nobility, they were given the name “gladiolus”. To this day, these beautiful flowers are considered a symbol of friendship, fidelity, nobility and memory.

Russian gladioli are:

• Tall (up to 180 cm) and strong peduncles,
• Always a large flower (12-16 cm),
• 8-10 buds are open at the same time!
• Gladioli of Russian selection are unpretentious to grow!
• Almost all varieties have heavily ruffled flowers!
• The elegance and unusual color of the buds makes these varieties ideal for cutting.

The dense texture of flower petals in the best varieties of gladioli provides the cut peduncle with at least a week's life in the bouquet (subject to regular changes of water in the vase, pruning the lower part of the stem, and removing faded flowers). At the same time, all the flowers on the gladiolus peduncle open up to the very top.

My favorite varieties

Gladiolus Irma

Tall large-flowered gladiolus with strongly ruffled flowers. The color is soft pale pink with iridescence, the spectacular dark cherry velvet spot on the lower petals is beautifully emphasized by a light pink outline. This variety is distinguished by a contrasting color, with an unusual, exotic corrugation. Height of an adult plant: 150 cm. Its single, leafy, erect stems are crowned with a long and voluminous inflorescence formed from two rows of buds. The total number of buds in a slender spike is 22. At the beginning of flowering, 8-10 large flowers with deep corrugation open. Flowering time: Mid-early.

Community of little green men

Gladiolus, Gladiolus, sword. Perennial corm plant. The stem is 85-150 cm and above, strong, erect. The flower is broadly funnel-shaped, with a small curved tube and wide rounded or pointed lobes, 5-20 cm in diameter.

Etymology

Translated from Latin, Gladius means “sword”. It received this name for its narrow long leaves. For the same reason, it is popularly called the sword.

Types and varieties of gladiolus

The genus contains about 250 species. The species grow mainly in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert. However, in our latitudes you can also find common gladiolus (Gladiolus communis) and tiled gladiolus (Gladiolus imbricatus). They bloom with small pink or pinkish-purple beautiful flowers.

Numerous varieties of hybrid gladiolus (Gladiolus hybridus), obtained by interspecific crossing, are mainly common in culture. There are also a number of natural species that winter in the middle zone: marsh gladiolus (Gladiolus palustris), Byzantine gladiolus (Gladiolus byzantinus), tiled gladiolus (Gladiolus imbricatus), etc. They are decorative, promising for landscaping, but are still very rarely used.

Gladiolus hybridus (Gladiolus hybridus)

The stem is 85-150 cm and higher, strong, erect, leafy. The flower is wide-funnel-shaped, with a small curved tube and wide rounded or pointed lobes, 5-20 cm in diameter. The color of the flowers varies widely - from white to purple, yellow, orange, brownish, lilac. Sometimes includes green tones. Early varieties bloom on the 70-79th day after planting (July), the average flowering period - on the 80-89th (late July–early August); late - on the 91-99th day (August).

Modern varietal gladioli are represented by several groups:

Large-flowered hybrids are the largest group. These are tall plants (from 1 meter and above) with the most spectacular large flowers of various colors;

Butterfly hybrids (Butterfly) - Their flowers are arranged neatly on the peduncle and resemble beautiful butterflies, as if fluttering above the leaves;

Primrose hybrids (Primulinus) - plants reach 60-80 cm in height, and the upper petal of each flower is like a hood, the peduncles are loose, and the flowers are smaller than those of the representatives of the two previous groups;

Miniature hybrids (Nanus or Baby) - plants are similar to primroses, but they grow only up to 50 cm in height, and their flowers are 5-6 cm in diameter.

An interesting subgroup consists of glamini - potted gladioli, which grow well in open ground.

Classification of varieties of hybrid gladioli

Currently, about 10,000 varieties and forms of hybrid gladioli are registered. Every year the catalogs include hundreds of new varieties. To navigate the huge varietal diversity, a rather complex classification

varieties, which is based on two main characteristics of a flower - its size and color.

To size

flower, all varieties of gladioli are divided into 5 classes:

100

— Miniature — flower size less than 6.5 cm;

200

— Small-flowered — 6.5 — 9 cm;

300

- Medium-flowered - 9 -11.5 cm;

400

— Large-flowered - 11.5-14 cm;

500

— Giant - more than 14 cm.

Based on color, gladioli are divided into 12 main classes with subclasses:

Varieties of gladioli with a border along the edges of the petals or a prominent spot on the lower petals (in the throat of the flower) have an odd

the last digit in the code.

According to the flowering time, all varieties of gladioli are divided into 7 classes:

Very early (OR) - up to 75 days from planting to flowering;

Early (R) - 75 -79;

Mid-early (SR) - 80-84;

Average (C) - 85-85;

Middle late (SP) - 91-99;

Late (P) - 100-114;

Very late (OL) - 115 days or more.

Petal edge shape

in gladiolus it can be smooth, corrugated, folded, fringed. Therefore, the following abbreviations can still be used in encoding:

G - corrugated,

SG - highly corrugated,

SSG – super highly corrugated.

So, the full coding of the variety 'White Sea' ('Beloje More') 500 (C, 2002, Kiselev) SSG, 20/8 - large-flowered gladiolus with snow-white flowers with a very strong folded corrugation with pinches in the throat. The flowers are collected in a strong, dense spike. Medium flowering variety.

By height, all varieties of gladioli are divided into:

Vigorous plants (over 150 cm),

Medium height (120-150 cm),

Weak-growing (100-120 cm)

Low-growing (less than 100 cm).

According to the length of the inflorescence, gladioli varieties are divided into:

Very short (no more than 26 cm),

Short (25-40 cm),

Medium (41-55 cm),

Long (56-70 cm)

Very long (more than 70 cm).

In small-flowered and miniature gladioli, a shorter spike length is allowed.

According to the arrangement of flowers on the peduncle, gladioli are divided into:

Spiral , when the flowers are arranged in an inflorescence in an ascending spiral;

Bilateral - flowers are attached to two opposite sides of the flower spike;

Regular - flowers are arranged in an inflorescence in two rows, with flowers of one row located in the spaces of another row;

Single row , when the flowers are arranged in one row;
Double row - flowers are arranged in two parallel rows opposite each other.
In terms of density, inflorescences can be loose, medium-loose and very dense . With a loose inflorescence, the flowers are located far from each other, which reduces the decorative effect. A very dense arrangement of flowers in an inflorescence, when they crowd each other, is also a negative quality. The most decorative are those varieties of gladioli in which the perianth lobes barely touch each other, and the flowers themselves are wide open.

According to the shape of the flowers, gladioli are divided into the following groups: primulinus, liliaceae (funnel-shaped), exotic (dragon-shaped), triangular gandavensis, open gandavensis, open edel, narrow edel, terry. The most common are:

• gandavensis open, or bilingual , when the internal lobes are located one at the top, two at the bottom;

• edel open, or single-lingual , - two internal lobes at the top, one at the bottom.

The most decorative varieties are those in which the perianth lobes are wide and strongly bent back. In recent years, plants with highly corrugated edges of the perianth segments have become especially popular. The number of flowers in an inflorescence can be small (10-12), medium (15-18) and very large (20-26). The decorative quality of the variety is also determined by the number of simultaneously open flowers in the inflorescence. New varieties may have 8-10.

International classification of corms and tuber buds of gladioli by analysis:

Corms are divided into four categories based on size:

I analysis

corms with a diameter of 3.2 cm or more;

II analysis

corms with a diameter of 2.5 to 3.1 cm;

III analysis

corms with a diameter of 1.5 to 2.4 cm;

IV analysis

corms with a diameter of 0.8 to 1.4 cm;

Babe

tubers with a diameter of 0.4 to 0.8 cm.

Gladiolus care

The plant requires warm, sunny, wind-protected areas with well-drained soil. Light loamy or sandy loam, slightly acidic fertile soil is preferred.

It is advisable to cut gladioli for bouquets in the early hours of the morning or evening, when the inflorescences are saturated with moisture. The inflorescences that last the longest are those cut off at the moment when the first lower bud begins to bloom.

Corms of varietal gladioli do not overwinter in open ground. They are planted annually in flower beds in late April - early May. The soil for planting is prepared in advance, in the fall: add 1-2 buckets of humus, 70 g of superphosphate and 3-35 g of potassium salt per 1 m2.

Large corms, with a diameter of 1 cm or more, are planted at a depth of 4-5 cm, medium ones (from 0.5 cm and more) - at a depth of 3-4 cm, and small ones - at 2-2.5 cm. Planting after watering mulch with weathered dry peat. Water abundantly, soaking the soil to a depth of 30-35 cm, systematically loosen and weed. Fertilizing is carried out when 2-3 leaves appear, then when the 6th leaf appears and in the budding phase. You can use a solution of complete mineral fertilizer with microelements.

Gladiolus propagation

Digging of corms is carried out from the second half of September until frost, in dry weather. Dry for two weeks in a warm room, sort and store at a temperature of +5...+6 °C until spring.

Early varieties and hybrids

Early varieties of gladioli bloom 80-95 days after planting. You can speed up flowering by germinating the bulb in advance in a peat pot or on a windowsill.

Splashes of the waterfall (472-S-91 Ardabyevskaya). Flowering period is July. The flowers are large, pale lilac, the petals are corrugated.

Cherry tree (568-R-1987 Zelenina). The flowers are large, slightly wavy petals. The color is dark cherry. Up to 9 buds bloom at the same time.

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Madagascar (458-SR-2003 Eliseev). Blooms in June - early July. The flowers are small, slightly wavy petals. The color is bright burgundy-scarlet.

Star of Ukraine (485-R-95 Miroshnichenko). Compact plant with large flowers. The petals are medium wavy, simple star-shaped. The color is pale blue, changing to deep purple in the center of the flower.