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I got this plant for free from the lobby of the building I worked in over a year ago. I repotted it last fall because it needed to be watered almost daily the soil was so filled with roots... Since then it's done very well and is now blooming in its south-facing window with filtered light.
I've purchased these gladioliI (Acidanthera gladiolus) in the past a few times and never had any bloom. This year I bought a huge bag of them from Costco and planted them in a big wine barrel with new potting soil ( or at least a thick layer of new soil on the existing stuff in the barrel) and after months if waiting here is a single bloom.
It's pretty, and it looks like there may be a few additional flowers developing, but I'm not sure they were worth the effort. They seem very finicky about their water. I also planted some additional bulbs in other containers that have been attacked by some sort of pest. Those poor bulbs definitely won't be flowering this year.
Acidanthera gladiolus (also called Gladiolus callianthus or Gladiolus callianthus muriela).
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