Multiplying Gladiolus Communis Byzantinus

The above picture is of a bed of Byzantine Glads (with some errant little mushrooms sprouting up around them). They are spring bloomers with magenta colored flowers. These are not like the gladiolas in the florist shops and grocery stores. They are the wild, or species, tulips that grow on the hillsides of Turkey. I just planted these corms this fall, and as the picture illustrates, as they emerge from the ground, there is one green blade - one per corm.

The corms in the above picture were planted three years ago. A single corm has multiplied into 10 corms.