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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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.
What beautiful vibrant flowers. my crocosmia didn’t do so well this year unfortunately. sara from farmingfriends
this flower looks realy nice.
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
Fiery, indeed! I love your blog. It’s got some great stuff on it!
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.
Sara mine took a year or two to really get going. Are yours newish? Also, I don’t know if you had a year like ours with both too cool and too hot temps and little rain, but if you did then many of your plants, like ours, might not have done as well as in past years.
Thank you Hoto – do you garden?
Aiyana Where are you located? I’ve heard you mention many times on my posts that you don’t think you can grow certain things where you are. Are you in a very hot or very cold climate?
Crocosmia apparently do well in USDA zones 5 to 9. I think a few varieties might even do well in zone 4 as well.
Thanks Moe. It’s always nice to hear that someone likes your blog. 😉 Oh and yes these are very fiery looking flowers. The name of the hybrid is Lucifer if that tells you anything! LOL
Hi Tricia,
I’m in the Phoenix, Arizona area, Zone 9b. It’s usually too hot(up to 118 degrees) and dry (average 7-15% humidity to grow many things here that others have in milder climates. Also, the soil is highly alkaline.
Aiyana
I love the fiery red color. I’ve never grown crocosmia and don’t even know what it is, but now you’ve got my curiosity up. I wonder if I can grow it here in TN?
This is just one more reason I love GTS. I learn so much each time I visit the participants 🙂
Mine’s up, too….come by when you get a chance!
hi tricia,
i just life in a apartment so i don`t have a garden myself. but my mom loves her garden and flowers and i love to sit in her garden and watch a the nice blommers.
I snuck home some crocosmia from Ireland this summer. They were growing wild along the roads. A couple survived replanting. Some have come up. I live in zone 5. How do I protect these over the winter”