Agreeing with your neighbor - think you got a bad bag of corms. Could have been old, seriously undersized, leftovers thrown together as a mix - hard to tell. Glads are well suited for container planting and can use a periodic dose of a Miracle-Gro like fertilizer especially when the foliage is just starting to grow. Drying out in containers could be a problem. I wouldn't give up on buying them from the big box type stores either - they're inexpensive. And you can get bad bulbs/corms from mail order and reputable garden centers just as easily. I don't grow glads every year (and I don't bother saving the corms over the winter when I do). Did plant them this year though, and bought the 15 corms to a package deal from our local Menard's, which is a Home Depot, Lowes type store. I shy away from the high count mixed bags, in favor of the boxes of the single color Gladiolus Grandiflorus - tall flower stalks, large florets. You can see through the package to judge if the corms are large, healthy, etc. When I grow them, it's for cut flowers for the house, but I like the sword-like foliage in the gardens in any case.

Oh my. The one and only time I corrected someone's spelling on a forum was this same error ;) C1nicolei, you've managed to strike out a couple of times here. When you've quit blushing, maybe try again with the photo of your PLANT. It's not showing for us.

Purple beech (including 'Purpurea Tricolor') grow quite large here as do purple and yellow-variegated forms of sycamore maple. This last tree, however is rare in my area. Large 'Zebrina' western redcedar are dotted about, these appear to have a tendency to produce a broader specimen than typical. The biggest (total volume) one I've measured (65' X 13'7" X 40', 1992) was in Greenwood Cemetary, Renton WA. Maybe it's still there. I zeroed in on this tree but completely overlooked the Hendrix marker. Some taller ones from Van Pelt, Champion Trees of Washington State (1996, University of Washington, Seattle) include: Cedrus deodara 'Aurea' 87' 1993 Vancouver Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Lutea' 76' 1993 Snohomish Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Stewartii' 80' 1993 Bremerton Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Westermanii' 67' 1995 Tacoma Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Aurea' 66' 1992 Seattle Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Plumosa Aurea' 75' 1992 Tacoma Fagus sylvatica 'Purpurea Tricolor' 73' 1995 Brinnon Liquidambar sytraciflua 'Variegata' 66' 1995 Seattle Populus X canadensis 'Serotina Aurea' 99' 1992 Puyallup Robina pseudoacacia 'Frisia' 72' 1992 Auburn Thuja plicata 'Zebrina' 76' 1993 Olympia

Hi Xuan, I thinnk you can tell from all the suggestions that naming the beautiful violets in your message that there are a number of possibilites. The following is my take on naming NOIDS which I have stated a number of times recently...................... I'm against looking for a violet name for a NOID. There are too many violets in the MVL that are similar and one can never be sure that the plant is that variety. If you don't intend to show it you really don't need a name. If you did want to show it I would give it a generic name like Xuan's Choice or something like that. If you want to give leaves to someone just make them aware that the plant is a NOID. Fred in NJ