Can any one tell me the name of this plant? I hope the picture is on the screen.
I would like cut half of them down in autumn because they take a bit too much space in my garden
pic is missing. Try putting them on a picture hosting website like webshots etc then transfering them to the forum.
If you mean the plant in small photo under you name.. that I'm struggling to see..what I can see looks very much like Crocosmia.
Crocosmias grow from small corms...bulb like things underground that multiply like wild fire. So if my ident is correct and you want to reduce the amount of those plants..you need to dig or at least try to pull clumps of them out with the attached corms or they simply grow back next spring.
Common name for some more 'common' crocosmias is Monbretia.
Crocosmia it is. Thank you all! Next time I'll try to put in a picture which it larger on the message. I will have to do some research how to manage that! :-)
I can't see any pics :-[ , but I was always taught that the red (slightly taller) variety is called crocosmia...and the orange variety is montbretia...beware I find the orange montbretia is a total thug...but I do love it :)
It's one and the same plant! It was montbretia and renamed crocosmia. All varieties will spread but it's easy enough just to dig up and move, or throw away, what you don't want. The vivid red one is the aptly named Lucifer.
Quote from: Flighty on August 04, 2012, 21:31:24
It's one and the same plant! It was montbretia and renamed crocosmia. All varieties will spread but it's easy enough just to dig up and move, or throw away, what you don't want. The vivid red one is the aptly named Lucifer.
Oh yeah, they are full flowering now. Earlier than last year. Grew double in size comparing to last year so this autimn I will cut to it down a bit. Lucifer it is! Thank you all for your knowledge!
Lucifer is tall variety and much more well behaved than rest of the family that spreads like wildfire.
Cutting it down is just temporary measure as it will always grow tall..and often fall over too ::)
QuoteAll varieties will spread
I love crocosmia. It was a favourite of my ntoher. Cannot tell you how many I have bought, been given or blagged. There is not one in my garden. Suppose I ought to have abided by the rule that you do not plant something unless your neighbours are growing it successfully. No crocosmia anywhere in our street.
I also thought that montbretia was the smaller one and crocosmia was a bigger type. But seems not.
They do fall over and sheltering the other plants a bit too much :-(. They are now 8 meters long and 1,5 meter wide and 1.50 high. Will try to split the bulbs in the autumn. I have another row standing in the walled garden but strange enough: they are of the same age but are much smaller. Walled garden is pure South and in my garden they are more sheltered from sunshine because of a wall.
I tried to grow the red (crocosmia) in my garden in London for about 6 years....every year the leaves came back greener and slightly taller...but it never flowered. No problem with the orange montbretia....I kept having to split it :) So when we moved house, I duly potted it up to take, and planted it into my new Herts garden in Sept...and this week it flowered ;D ;D Success ;D