Large clump-forming perennial with pleated green leaves and bright red flowers borne in arching spikes on wiry stems in midsummer. Height 3-4 feet. Grow at the edge of a shrub border or in a herbaceous border. Makes an excellent cut flower.
Rhizomatous perennial with narrow, grass-like leaves that produces blue flowers about 3 inches across from mid-spring to early summer. Height 20-48 inches. Suitable for an open herbaceous or mixed border.
This evergreen, clumping rhizomatous perennial has linear basal leaves and bears loose spikes of saucer-shaped blue flowers in summer. Height 3 feet; spread 18 inches.
Rhizomatous perennial with narrow, grass-like leaves that produces white flowers about 3 inches across from mid-spring to early summer. Height 20-48 inches. Suitable for an open herbaceous or mixed border.
This upright, clump-forming perennial has strap-shaped leaves in shades of orange, yellow and green and bears white, iris-like flowers in clusters at the top of stems in spring. Drought-tolerant. Height 15 inches; spread 28 inches.
Evergreen perennial with iris-like gray/green leaves. Bears clusters of cup-shaped pale yellow flowers in early and midsummer. Height 36 inches; spread 12 inches.
Clustering corms give rise to typical gladiolus leaves, followed by stems of trumpet shaped deep magenta flowers. Very possibly the hardiest Gladiolus, this is an elegant and desirable species. Height 3 feet.
This small semi-evergreen perennial plant forms tufts of grass-like leaves and stems of yellow flowers from early to mid summer. Height 24 inches; spread 6 inches. Plant may be short-lived, but self-seeds freely.
This small semi-evergreen perennial plant forms tufts of grass-like leaves and stems of blue to purplish flowers, usually with a yellow eye in the centre. It blooms from mid spring to mid summer. Height and spread 6 inches.
