Do Glads Change Color?
A question frequently asked is whether or not glads change color. Actual changes in color, known as mutations or sports, are quite rare. According to many care guides for gladiolus and most gardeners who grow glads in mixture believe they do change color. What really happens is that they may have a variety in their mixture that is much more prolific than the others. Some varieties are known to split and produce as many as five (even seven) plants, and consequently five corms from the one corm planted. Many varieties just hold their own, and return just one plant and consequently one corm from the corm planted. Such a variety offers little competition to one that multiplies rapidly. After five years, the variety just holding its own will yield its one corm, if it has lived through the ordeal. On the other hand, you would be harvesting 625 corms of the prolific gladiolus variety, assuming that the original corm and all its off-spring split up into five new corms during each growing seaso
