For example my gladiolus, they are bent so far over there almost touching the ground.
2007-08-06 15:59:07 · 8 answers · asked by dreamer20692000 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Stake them.
1. Try using a bamboo cane (from a dollar store: 10 for 99 cents) and a short piece of yarn.
2. They could be side-shoots. Be careful you don't break them off when you stake them.
Sometimes the nodes on the corms send the shoots out sideways, and they grow that way.
Next year, when planting the gladiolus, make sure the nodes point straight up when planting your corms.
2007-08-06 16:07:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This can get complicated. Some flowers just have to be staked. For others, (and this hurts a lil) it is best to cut them back before they bloom so the won't get as tall. For example- mums should be cut back to half their height around the 4th of July or they will bloom too early and lean over in an unsightly crappy way right when you need them to be pulling their aesthetic weight in the garden.
If it is just gladiolas in question, it might be your watering schedule that is in error. Too much water, or watering too often will stunt the root growth. You want most plants to get a lil dry sometimes, as it trains the roots to go deeper. If you're spoiling them with frequent waterings, the roots have no need to go deep, thereby effecting their ability to hold themselves up.
(but you don't want to cut Glads like you would mums! It must be the watering.)
2007-08-06 23:18:03 · answer #2 · answered by kelly d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the garden shops sell green rubber coated flower stem holders that you hammer in the ground.
I suspect the "flags" are almost laying over and touching the ground due to facing the East where planted and only gets the morning sun.
Plants grow towards the light and bend towards it. Otherwise they just might be dry. The direction the wind is blowing on the plants when in bloom effects them as well.
2007-08-06 23:56:17 · answer #3 · answered by donna D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hammer a wooden stake into the ground next to the plant and put some string around them.
2007-08-07 08:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by trey98607 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you are talking about keeping them up 'in the garden'? If so, just get some garden stakes from a hardware or nursery and tie them to them.
2007-08-07 03:32:27 · answer #5 · answered by Tommo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll have to support them. i've seen people use tomato cages for glads or just bang a dowel or one of those green fence posts into the ground behind them and tie them back.
2007-08-06 23:03:32 · answer #6 · answered by Flusterated 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try adding a stake or maybe a trellis.
2007-08-06 23:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by Toadsputum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
need to run thin stakes next to them and tie them to it.
2007-08-06 23:13:06 · answer #8 · answered by fuzzykitty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋