By Seaburngirl
East Yorkshire,
United Kingdom 
crocosmia and gladiolus.
i have a pot minus label [blame the squirrels] cant decide which it is so the question is : do crocosmia produce side cormlets like gladioli? I know they usually have a chain of old corms with the newest on the top.
If they dont produce cormlets around the side then these are gladioli.
19 Jan, 2010
Answers
some of the gladies I have grown have had a tunic similar to a crocus though, so I wasnt so sure about using that as a diagnostic. thanks for the suggestion though.
19 Jan, 2010
i always tend to find crocosmia bulbs look a lot like onion sets, whilst the galdy's are larger.
19 Jan, 2010
I think they do, Sbg - I dug out a whole lot of crocosmia last autumn, and seem to remember that they had 'clusters' of corms.
20 Jan, 2010
sadly these are small corms so size isnt a help thanks Steveb.
thanks spritz I will just have to wait for them to flower then.
20 Jan, 2010
I don't grow gladioli Sbg but don't crocosmia have fiberous tunics on the corms whilst gladioli are smooth?
19 Jan, 2010