Re: Crocosmia 'Lucifer'
dave-poole@ilsham.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> It's certainly spectacular when growing well and here at least, seems
> to appreciate well drained 'good' soils as well as thin, gravelly poor
> types. I love the big bold forms and have only ever really disliked
> one - a double golden yellow (C. aurea 'flore-pleno' ? David ?) To my
> mind, it loses all of the grace of the single forms. I concur with
> everyone else about 'Solfatare' - grown well it is exceptional and
> well worth hunting down.
I personally find with many flowers, but those of bulbs in particular
double forms are less attractive then their single counterparts. In some
(the Freesia is one that springs to mind) the blooms become too heavy
for the stem to support without help. In others (such as the double
Tigerlily) the double flowers are so muddled in construction they quite
loose the attractive form of the singles and this is also the case with
some of the double daffodils which are more curious than beautiful. The
regularity of the double jonquil, on the other hand, is most attractive,
but one tends to have the heavy-head problem instead!
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata,
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
