FULL TOUR: 2023 GLADIOLUS BEDS // BACKYARD FLOWER FARM

Hello everyone, welcome back to the garden. Today we're going to be taking a look at the gladiolus bed, a new kind of a gladiolus mini tour. Now I had initially planned to order several varieties of these and have a you know just a full-blown gladiolus trowel but unfortunately a lot of the different types that were didn't grow true to type. When I first started growing that kind of thing would be more of a disappointment but now I've just come to accept that just this is how it is. So some of these will be a named variety and some of these will be more of a mystery so I do apologize in advance for that. If you do see one that I don't know the name of that you think you might know its identity please be sure to tell me down in the comments below. Of course I will be very very appreciative despite not knowing the name of some of these. Some of them are very very gorgeous nonetheless. Without further ado let's get on into this. The first one I wanted to show is this beautiful dark pink one. I didn't order any of these darker type of pink colors so I'm not quite sure what variety this one is. This one is a mystery to me. As you can see the petals are a little bit on the rough way side which I really love. I had made an effort to order a lot of the frizzle type gladiolus and of course I was not disappointed. I just love these full petals even though this darker pink color is not one I would normally gravitate towards. I was pleasantly surprised with how much I really like this bright highly saturated color and of course the hummingbirds absolutely loved it as well so I can't complain there that's for sure. If you have any clue what this one might be be sure to leave down below I'd really appreciate it. I definitely would keep this one again in the garden. The next variety I wanted to show you is one that did have a tag and one that had seemingly grown true type. This variety is called Alicia. This is another kind of ruffly one. This in the garden in the sunlight looks very much more of a yellow tint rather than a green. Once it's in the shade it's more of a green tint and on occasion there was a little bit of kind of a purple shading to each of the petals. Again another one that's really pretty in terms of the flower structure and the petal formation. Very very nice. I think I would prefer a little bit more of a green flower. This one was satted on a little bit yellow for me personally but very pretty nonetheless. The next flower I have to show you here is another mystery flower. This one is just a pure white flower. I know for a fact that I didn't order just any pure whites just because I was going for more of the showstopper type varieties where I made my order this year. You know frizzles and bright colors and things like that. So I didn't order any just pure white flowers even though these are very nice very crisp and clean. They stayed very clean in the garden for a long time even when there were prolonged periods of rain and things like that. So they are a beautiful white flower. Unfortunately I don't have the name for you. I'm so sorry. Unfortunately I just don't know the name. The next one that I want to show you is this creamy kind of peach pink one. It is called Ben Venuto. This was a very nice flower. This one grew true type for me here as labeled from my order. It shows more pink here but there is definitely kind of a peachy salmon tone to it in real in real life. I tried to do my best to capture the true colors of how the colors were presenting on camera. A little less ruffled in terms of flower form but there are some kind of crinkly margins that give it a gorgeous texture. I'm sure it would be gorgeous for flower arrangements. The next flower that started to bloom were these red ones. I'm going in order of bloom. I definitely didn't order any red ones. Red ones aren't my favorite. I've just never really been into red flowers too much but they look nice. I mean for what they are they look very nice and I'm sure if somebody has an affinity for red flowers these would definitely fit the bill. If you grew these red ones let me know. Maybe maybe you know what these are called. The next variety I'm going to show you is called Cream Perfection and this is one of the reasons that I went ahead and you know I was going to make a gladiolus tour video even though a lot of these are unnamed. This one is absolutely stunning. As you can see the flowers open up this very soft white color with kind of a yellowish tint but the magic happens the real magic happens with those streaks of this peach pink color in the insides of each flower on each petal and outside each petal. These really are perfection well named. These are so gorgeous. This is one of those varieties in which I don't think the camera is truly doing it justice. I would love to have this one again in the future growing in my yard. So pretty. Oh it's beautiful. The next one is another really pretty one. I don't have a name for this one. It did not come to a type from the label that I had planted next to it. It could be one called careless but I'm not absolutely certain on that. So if you grew careless and this one looks similar to yours let me know and we'll try to figure out what you know what this one's identity is. Anyway it's another kind of ruffly one. Shades of white and just a gorgeous kind of pastel pink around the outer edging. Very very pretty. I hope I can find out what this one was actually called. Next is one called Sorry about Spanish but this one's so gorgeous. It's a really pretty one. It's much more saturated than you would expect. It's shades of kind of a salmon orange color but it's so bright and vibrant. The camera makes it look a little more orangey than it does in person and you can see the throat of it is this beautiful yellow color. Not as much frizzled as some of the other ones that I'm growing in the garden this year but still very very beautiful. I really really like this one. Almost to the end here there's a couple more I wanted to show you. I believe this one is called Contraverde. It is this unique weird quirky blend of green and kind of a purple mauve color. As you can see the inside of the throat is that beautiful lime green color that is so pretty in gladioluses and that pinky purple color is around the edge. The petals themselves are delightfully crinkly and full and just give this magnificent appearance of texture and these are really really unique ones. I really really like this one. I was actually really surprised because this is such a unique color combination. Last but certainly not least for this video I wanted to show you one which was mislabeled. I believe this one is called based on all my research that I've been able to find and the glads offered by the supplier that I ordered from. This one is stunning. This is really the main reason I decided to go ahead and make this video. Anyway it is such a gorgeous blend of this kind of orange pink color with a lighter kind of yellow cream center throat. The texture is gorgeous and beautiful. They absolutely shine in the garden and in as you can see in buckets they're just amazing. I think this is definitely one of my absolute favorite varieties this year.