Description

Gladiolus Magenta Princess is a glamorous, high-impact summer flowering gladiolus, celebrated for its rich magenta-purple blooms with velvety depth and glowing undertones that become more intense as the flowers open up the stem. Each spike carries many florets in a perfectly staged ladder formation, opening sequentially from base to tip through July, August and early September, giving this variety a long performance window during peak garden season. Growing to 90–120 cm, it brings height, structure and drama into planting schemes, working especially well as a vertical accent among herbaceous perennials or in bold colour blocks for civic displays. In Irish conditions it thrives in full sun and free-draining fertile soil, strongly responding to heat and summer light, yet coping well even in inland or coastal sites where wind demands resilient stems. While gladioli are not the highest pollinator bulbs, open flowers do offer accessible pollen, and biodiversity improves significantly when planted alongside nectar-rich partners like Agastache, Rudbeckia, Echinacea, Monarda or Verbena bonariensis, creating a summer meadow feel with layered height.