Gladiolus Abbreviatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Watermelon Usually 50-70 feet in height

Usually 50-70 feet in height but can easily reach 130 ft with roughly a 30 foot spread

Balsam is an old-fashioned annual that produces single or double flowers in the leaf axils along the main stem of the plant from summer to early autumn

even in hurricane winds

There are different colour types

Flesh is bright red with relatively few seeds

Gladiolus Abbreviatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Watermelon Usually 50-70 feet in heightGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape