What a pleasant surprise that must be for November.

It will soon be time to dig and store the glads, won't it?

Sue

Yes it was a very nice surprise - but a little strange.
I never dig them up - they stay in the ground all year.
Lisa

Many moons ago my father planted Gladiolus in his miserable clay soil and has never dug them in fall. They come back every year.

I planted new Glads in well amended clay soil on his property and half of them rotted.

I had to dig out all of them since I needed the bulb cages for Tulips and just kept the ones that weren't rotted.

Those I'll store for winter since there's no where to put them until spring.

There's a woman around the corner who has an entire field of Glads that she sells from stand at the end of her driveway. She's been doing this for over 40 years. She lifts every year and replants next year. God bless her, she can barely stand up staight anymore but she's out there 3 out of 4 seasons a year.

Lisa, had that yellow Glad bloomed earlier in the year or are there too many to be able to tell anything about that particular one? Guess you'd only know if you'd cut all the other flowers back already. Nice surprise!

Something has a lot of bulbs sprouting green tips above ground this Fall. So many things about nature's quirks we aren't aware of when something out of the ordinary happens with our plants.