Re: SUCCESS WITH CROCOSMIAS?

Yep - it bloomed already and in full blazing sun with no problem

We are all amateur botanical sleuths....


On Aug 8, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Deborah Lindsay wrote:


I think that, as with many plants, bloom time is
dependent on the geographic area where the plant is
growing. I'm currently spending time in Arcata,
Calif., which is in the far northern end of the state,
and the common orange crocosmia (Which I believe is
Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora) is in full bloom now
around here. I would expect it to bloom much earlier
in San Diego in the far south of the state.

Deborah Lindsay

--- N Sterman <TalkingPoints@plantsoup.com> wrote:


Here is a story about crocosmia and blooming time.

A few years back, Brent Heath of Brent and Becky's
Bulbs was coming
to San Diego to give a lecture on late summer
blooming bulbs.  I
believe his talk was scheduled for  May.

We spoke at length as he was planning his talk.  He
lives on the
coast of Virginia and had many questions about
specific bulbs do in
this area.  Crocosmia was on Brent's list of late
summer bloomers and
he was surprised when I told him that mine bloom in
late spring and
were already past their prime.

In my pretty hot garden, crocosmia are long gone by
this time of
year.  The foliage dies as the heat sets in sometime
in early June
and I have been cutting it all back for weeks.

Yet, there always seems to be a plant or two that
keeps blooming
through the summer, which makes me wonder whether
these late bloomers
are a different variety or if there is indeed a
difference between
chasmanthe and crocosmia - maybe I have both???



Nan
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