Re: Digest Number 2025

 

Hello Mark,

I live in England and grow crocosmia, mostly Lucifer but also a couple of yellow varieties whose names I've forgotten. All are outdoors - Lucifer grows well and spreads very easily. There are some nights below freezing  and some snow most years in this part of England (Reading, about 30 miles west of London). I've grown it in other parts in the south where temperatures are slightly warmer and parts where it's been slightly colder. The yellow varieties also survive well but do not increase as much.  The wet doesn't seem to affect any of them at all - they die back in the cold and come up again in the spring. In fact I weed out extra plants every year. I'd guess by my experience that drought would be more of a problem than damp but from what others have said it seems as if it's quite an adaptable species.

 On 16/12/2013 17:26, stan tyson wrote:
 


 
Mark,
Crocosmia has been a real pain for me. I was enlightened when I saw it naturalized in Hawaii and then understood it. I believe its dormancy is moisture triggered, not temperature. There it grew continuously. In central Illinois it can be a large potted plant in the spring but goes dormant in out usual summer drought, then tried to regrow in the fall. I would try it, not knowing where in Florida you are at. Give it plenty of moisture and stand back. In Hawaii it was abundant at the top of the mountains on the wet side. The days were around 70 and the nights were around 50 degrees. Good luck.
 
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:14:40 +0000
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> Subject: [iris-species] Digest Number 2025
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> Posted by: "Mark Cook" h*@gmail.com gatorbait1962
> Date: Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:15 pm ((PST))
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> Does anyone know if this type of Crocosmia shown would grow in Stuart,
> Florida? That is well south of me and over on the east coast.
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> Dunnellon, Florida USA
> AHS Region 12 USDA Zone 8b
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