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Comments (23)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....See MoreLandscaping with CROCOSMIA? Help Please?
Comments (28)The street end of the mobile does have a geometrically symmetric design, with the left half identical to the right half. So converting the front garden to a formal layout would cause it to relate better to that part of the mobile at least. With the garden being made formal by it becoming geometrically symmetric also, with straight lines, matching pairs and so on - this is the kind of setting where having a single round bed right in the center, like a bull's eye in a target could work. However to do a formal design there now you will pretty much have to completely reorganize everything you already have. And as far as specific plants are concerned any time you have only one of something - the yew for instance - that is not really going to lend itself to creating formality. Unless you can get more of the same kind that are as big as the one you have already, so that they match. Speaking of matching that is a recurring issue with formal designs using plants, in that any time development of plants used to make a pattern is uneven or one of them dies at some point along the way then the formal symmetry is lost. (Or not achieved in the first place). Same as if one of the brown panels flanking the windows on your mobile were to be removed....See MoreAdvice Please! Crocosmia "Lucifer" bulbs when to plant????
Comments (4)It sure does (replicate rapidly). I've been looking at mine recently, which are flowering, and they are thick as. In another place in the garden where I put ONE, there are now a LOT. And this second lot look much better than the first lot as they get more water....See MoreAre crocosmia supposed to be one-and-done?
Comments (3)I have several large, established clumps of 'Lucifer' here in upstate NY and I've never seen or heard of them reblooming after the initial show. I don't even trim the spent flower stalks off these days as I find the seed pods to be pretty ornamental in their own right. Perhaps in milder regions where they can be evergreen, there's more potential for rebloom?...See Morecoolplantsguy
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