Has anyone else seen these before? I nearly gave myself whiplash looking at them, celophane-wrapped in a bucket of water when I was out shopping for supper last night. It was like falling into one of my flower dreams, where I go hiking in improbably lush fields of indigenous flowers, perhaps in Cape Town.
These are so South African, a souped up version of Gladiolus monticola or its cousins. I have never seen them sold commercially before and was so excited I bought two bunches.
We buy and love them in İstanbul.
ReplyDeleteHere? No, the only things we see are called either glad's or sometimes, gladiola's. Dame Edna has much to answer for!
ReplyDeleteThere is someone who sells them at the farmer's market when it's warmer here. Love your milk bottle vase. I happen to have picked some hyacinths from my balcony and also have them in a milk bottle! Those plus my erlicheers smell divine in the living room.
ReplyDeleteWe see quite a lot of them in the UK. After a long period of being regarded "old fashioned", they seem to have benefited from the trend for stately sculptural cut flowers. The way the flower-opening progresses up to the tip of the stem pleases me.
ReplyDeleteI'm immediately taken back in time to the flower sellers in Adderly Street...sigh
ReplyDeleteAnd they will last and last. Beauty and endurance. perfect.
ReplyDeletexo J.
I love it when you love cut flowers!! Yes, these are much wilder looking that that old standard.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pairing of that exquisite tea cup with the flowers....perfectly styled.
ReplyDeleteA local farmer has them growing wild on this farm. Deep purple with yellow throats. Spectacular. He once brought armful of them to a function we were having at the local cricket club.
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