Fiery flowers
I was just saying on my gardening blog that it’s time to buy some new bulbs for the garden. My oriental lilies didn’t come up this year and neither did my Lucifer crocosmia.
I think I know why my lovely red crocosmia didn’t come up though … Chris got out in the garden this past spring before I did, and he thought he was doing me a favor by tidying up the garden beds. I think he might have pulled out the crocosmia. It would have looked like long dead grass in the spring and he might not have noticed the tiny bulbs at the ends when he pulled them out of the ground.
Oops!
Hopefully I can find some new crocosmia bulbs in the store. Perhaps I’ll go later today and have a look.
Do you grow Crocosmia? It’s pretty easy to grow. Well, provided that no one pulls it out on you in the Spring.
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Oh and yes these are very fiery looking flowers. The name of the hybrid is Lucifer if that tells you anything! LOL
lol, so I’m not the only one to pull away real plants instead of weeds …
I was considering crocosmia for next year. Your picture is a good reason to give them a try. I take a good note to mark them with a “do not pull out” label.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:15 am
What beautiful vibrant flowers. my crocosmia didn’t do so well this year unfortunately. sara from farmingfriends
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:05 am
this flower looks realy nice.
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:25 am
Beautiful colors. I’ve never grown crocosmia, or actually ever heard of it until GTS. I don’t think it grows here. I’ll need to check that out.
Aiyana
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Fiery, indeed! I love your blog. It’s got some great stuff on it!
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
LOL well I have no idea how he might have mistaken them or if he really did. Usually I cut them down in the fall and leave the grassy stubs in place, but this past fall I didn’t do anything because I was too sick so they died down naturally leaving a tangle of four foot long dead grassy looking foliage. Why he might have thought it didn’t belong I don’t know … or maybe he knew it belonged but was removing the dead stuff and accidentally pulled it all out from the ground without noticing that he was pulling out the corms or bulbs.
They are beautiful though. It took mine a couple of years to really get going nicely, but once they did they were outstanding when they bloomed. Oh and they bloomed twice in a season.