{"id":11349,"date":"2009-08-10T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:55:20","slug":"mini-glads-are-like-salt-water-taffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2009\/08\/mini-glads-are-like-salt-water-taffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Glads are like Salt Water Taffy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nSilly, I know, but sometimes I can’t resist the common , (but still rarely seen outside of farmers markets) Mini Gladiolus. Mini glads are my junk food in the summer. A secret indulgence of mine, and when ever I see a bunch at a farmers market, or at a Gladiolus show, they remind me of why I am so fascinated with flowers. Even wierder, to me, they remind me Salt Water Taffy. Yeah, I know. But here is why:
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\nWhen I was very young, my family would spend a couple of weeks at the beach. The ocean is only a one hour drive from our home, and Cape Cod and the coast of Maine, is an hour and a half. After playing on the beach, and swimming in the ice cold Atlantic, I can remember going for a walk on the board walk, and possibly get fried clams. Sometimes we would be allowed to go into a candy store and choose a pound of freshly pulled, Salt Water Taffy. There would be 20 or 30 flavors, and each would have a different color combination. Pink with a burgundy spot, light yellow with a teal green center, or red and white striped, lavender, green and yellow, I could never make up my mind which one was prettier, so I would pick one of each, never actually thinking of what flavor they were. See……Salt Water Taffy…..mini glads…..get it?<\/p>\n
Love them or hate them, mini glads will always appear in my plant windows during August. Their colors are odd combinations, but somehow they work when mixed together in a ‘carny way’. Sure, gladiolus that are not a rare species form might be a little too circusy for some of us hortiphiles, but on an August afternoon, I think they are perfectly sweet and appropriate. LIke taffy.
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\nA SNOWBERRY CLEARWING Hummingbird Moth ( Hemaris diffinis) sipping nectar on a Verbena blossom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Silly, I know, but sometimes I can’t resist the common , (but still rarely seen outside of farmers markets) Mini Gladiolus. Mini glads are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-11349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bulbs"],"yoast_head":"\n