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Re: Crocosmia or Chasmanthe?

I have never heard of Chasmanthe.   Am replying to also warn about 
Crocosmia.   In the Channel area [counrty garden] Crocosmia, which is 
in flower now, has become a nuisance plant.   Grows all along 
roadside and appears everywhere in our gardens.   Middleton was very 
badly burnt in Tasmania's worst bush fires [Feb. 1967] and these 
corms must have quite liked the burning treatment.   Watsonias 
[mainly the magenta-purple ones, a few white, have also spread 
through vacant areas.   I dug up a few plants, from hundreds growing 
beside the roadside, and I mean hundreds,  thinking they were 
white Watsonias, and now have an orange- pink bugle flower plant 
growing rapidly through the garden.   The leaves are much wider than 
the Crocosmia, plant much taller and it forms little bulbets all along 
the flowering stem that drop off when you touch them, similar to some 
lilies and appear to be ready to flower the following summer.    Another pest! 
Sean writes that Crocosmia [montbretia] can become 6ft tall.   I 
cannot believe that, the Channel area road verges would be an 
unbelievable sight!   The crocosmia, as we know it, only grows to 2ft 
with 1/2 inch wide leaves.    The corms grow on top of one another
       A casual description of my unknown would be a cross between Watsonias, 
Crocosmia and with Gladiolus like corms.   I think now I have it 
named but as I have written, can't find Chasmanthe in any of my
numerous  books.
Regards
Gay Klok: my net address, one page leads to another,
http://members.tripod.com/~klok/WRINKLY_.HTM
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