{"id":9083,"date":"2011-04-05T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:34:47","slug":"daily-awesome-gladiolus-virescens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2011\/04\/daily-awesome-gladiolus-virescens\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Awesome &#8211; Gladiolus virescens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/glad_virescens3.jpg?resize=400%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Gladiolus virescens<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;These transitional months, those between the grand season of summer and winter, or summer and winter, mainly, spring and autumn, are times of significant bloom for many plants either bloom in the beginning of their growing season ( quite common with many orchids, which is why orchid shows are held either in the spring, or the autumn). &nbsp;Such plants bloom very early in the growing season, or near the end because they either require certain pollinators, demand a long season of growth in which to mature, or they simply require strong sunshine or moisture to mature a new annual growth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/glad_viresc4.jpg?resize=400%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;The reasons why some plants wait until the end of their growth season may seem odd, but if you think about it a little more, many of these plants grow in areas where there are harsh conditions, a hot dry winter, for example, and so it is with many of the species Gladiolus which grow in the winter rainfall areas of the western cape of South Africa. A land, where many gladiolus species come from, and where many of the species in my collection come from. Today, I share a new one for me, the lovely olive and gold flowered Gladiolus virsecens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/glad_virescens.jpg?resize=400%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">A photo rarely shows the scale of a flower, but these flowers are about the size of a quarter.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/glad_virsecens2.jpg?resize=400%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">In the sunshine, when I brought the plant outdoors to shoot it in better light, the color became more intense than those that were shot under the shade cloth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gladiolus virescens &nbsp;These transitional months, those between the grand season of summer and winter, or summer and winter, mainly, spring and autumn, are times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9084,"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":[88,86,28],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cape-bulbs","tag-daily-awesomes","tag-greenhouse-bulbs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Daily Awesome - Gladiolus virescens - Growing With Plants<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2011\/04\/daily-awesome-gladiolus-virescens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daily Awesome - Gladiolus virescens - Growing With Plants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gladiolus virescens &nbsp;These transitional months, those between the grand season of summer and winter, or summer and winter, mainly, spring and autumn, are times...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2011\/04\/daily-awesome-gladiolus-virescens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Growing With Plants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/matt.mattus.7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-05T05:27:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-13T22:34:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/glad_virescens3.jpg?fit=400%2C324&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"324\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matt Mattus\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matt Mattus\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2011\/04\/daily-awesome-gladiolus-virescens\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2011\/04\/daily-awesome-gladiolus-virescens\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Matt Mattus\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/785c3fc728469f03242c77ea5cdec92a\"},\"headline\":\"Daily Awesome &#8211; 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