Donna, I don't know if you are still considering Crocosmia since this thread was started in July, but hopefully my experience is helpful since we are in similar SE hot and humid climates. I've grown C. 'Jenny Bloom' quite easily in part shade to part sun in well-drained soil. This cultivar is the best I've tried because it's not as tall as some other cultivars so it flops less and as PDN states, it doesn't crowd as quickly as say C. 'Lucifer'. I just divided my original clump after 6-7 years. I've had a hard time establishing some such as C. 'Star of the East' and C. 'Warlhead', but I think I succeeded finally with the latter. I'll know for sure if it appears next Spring. My advise: Try planting as early as you can in Spring. Give them well-drained soil, a little bit of shade, and make sure that you water regularly the first summer. They do not like the heat until they are established and this takes some time, the better part of the summer in my experience. Once they establish though, they are a breeze and steadily increase in numbers.

I am interested in: Variegated ginger mint orange mint variegated oregano double shasta daisies I have these for trade: grape hyacinths border bearded irises "Wildcat pajamas', 'Cream Cake', 'Gotto Lotta Bodda', 'John', 'Hi', 'Leprechauns Delight' Chocolate Mint Cat Mint Creeping Phlox- White, Purple Ground Sedum

I posted a week or so ago that I have Sweet Woodruff, Ajuga, and Crocosmia for trade. I have not received any replies, either posts or emails. ;( G.H.

We have a similar area. In the spring, I wouldn't want to have to live without a few things. Wood poppies!! Wonderful! Also called Celandine poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum. Very early blooms, and lovely foliage mounds thru the summer. Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica!! Several of the Corydalis spp., Epimediums, bleeding hearts. If you are looking for something shrub-like or viny, climbing hydrangea, maple-leaf viburnum [and some other viburnums] and some kinds of clematis like this environment.