bulb type things

[littlebabybird]

my mum always grew these realy nice stems of flowers
i dont know what they were called  but they grew on a kind of bulb type thing (sorry)
soo does anyone know an on line catalogue of bulby things so i can see if i can find them
or does anyone have a clue from my pathetic description

lbb

[littlebabybird]

[Eristic]

Did the flowers grow from a bare bulb on a dish. If so they could have been autumn crocus or colchicum. If not can we have more description, height, colour, time of flowering etc.

[teresa]

Couple of sites,
Were they indoors or outside growing?

http://www.jparkers.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.standard&category_id=458

http://www.vanmeuwen.com/catalogue/bulbs.html

http://home-garden.listings.ebay.co.uk/Plants-Seeds-Bulbs_Bulbs-Corms-Rhizomes_W0QQdfspZ1QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ122891QQsocmdZListingItemList

hope you find them. ;)

[littlebabybird]

Eristic
I'm so sorry,
she grew them in the ground, they were way tall but i guess i was little so maybe 2 ft or so
they had like quite large flowers all the way up the stem and these bulb type things were
kind of dry and the new one grew either on top of or under the old one so there would be a little pile of them
lbb

[littlebabybird]

hi teresa thank you i willl take a look at them

[Pesky Wabbit]

Sounds like Gladioli - Dame Edna's favorite.

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/plants1/product/p80971/1.html

[littlebabybird]

yeah Pesky Wabbit
your brilliant,
now how hard are they to grow?
lbb

[Pesky Wabbit]

Same as all bulbs. Just shove 'em in, sit back & wait.

I buy a big bag (50 or 100) of mixed Glads (cost about 10p per bulb) and shove 'em in 10+ at a time, every two weeks from Easter onwards until I run out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plantprofile_gladioli.shtml

[Sinbad7]

A friend has given me 100 Ixia mixture bulbs and 50 10cm Dutch Iris bulbs.  Will they be alright to plant in containers together?  Also if the answer is yes how deep should I plant them?

Many thanks

Sinbad