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NEW! Crocosmias
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We’ve always enjoyed the brilliant colors of crocosmias and planted them to attract hummingbirds to the late summer garden. We love to combine them with lilies in our garden because they begin their long blooming sequence after the lilies have peaked, and they continue to beautify the landscape into early fall. Grown from corms planted in the spring, they form decorative clumps of strongly vertical leaves, crested by long panicles of as many as 50 brilliantly colored tubular flowers, similar to freesias in form and size, which bloom for many weeks. Crocosmias are wonderful cut-flowers, too. They grow in less-than-perfect garden conditions, tolerating a fair bit of drought although enjoying summer moisture. They are happy in full sun and can tolerate a bit of shade.
These members of the iris family are generally hardy to zone 5, and in areas outside their hardiness zone, the corms can be lifted in late fall and stored, cool and dry, until the next spring. Using a good mulch will add 2 zones to their usual hardiness zone; if their first shoots are damaged by hard freezes, they are quick to initiate new shoots. They multiply rapidly and readily.
Our friend Niels van Noort began growing and hybridizing crocosmias about 10 years ago. We’ve been fascinated by his progress creating new forms in a wider range of colors, heights, flowering time, and hardiness. Here are some of our favorites, including new and exclusive van Noort originations! |
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NEW! ‘Emily McKenzie’ is distinctive for its exceptionally large and “open” flowers of burnished gold with deep bronze accents. It begins flowering 3 weeks after ‘Lucifer’ and is still going strong well into September in our garden. Its vivid orange and purple seed capsules are just as dramatic and lovely in the garden as the flowers! 3 to 3 1/2 feet tall. A bit more tender than other crocs, it will need a good mulch in zone 5 or colder areas.
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10 / $15.00 |
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NEW! ‘Lucifer’ is the standard by which crocosmias are measured! It has the most intensely brilliant flaming red flowers and is invariably surrounded by hummingbirds (see photo at right) in our garden. Begins to flower early/mid July in our zone 6, 3 to 4 feet and often taller once established. We are proud to offer the largest corms you’ll find anywhere --16 cm and larger for a shower of flowers this summer!
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NEW! ‘Orange Lucifer’ carries flowers of a brilliant, vibrant orange, deeper at the edges, beginning to flower about a week later than ‘Lucifer.’ (Photo above.)
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NEW! ‘Yellow Lucifer’ is a vibrant, saturated, deep yellow, beginning to flower about a week later than ‘Lucifer.’
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NEW! ‘Skylight’ (van Noort) is a stunner, with purple-bronze, flame-tipped buds opening into intensely orange, amazingly large flowers with a flash of yellow to accent each throat. Very tall stems, 5 feet and taller! ‘Skylight’ begins to flower at the end of July and early August in our zone 6 garden.
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NEW! ‘Brilliant Sunset’ (van Noort) brings new colors to crocosmias, with a distinctive cream to soft yellow “eye” at the center of each flower, in luscious contrast with petals, which reflect tangerine, mango, or deepest peach as the incident light shifts, and which show an overlay of rosy pink as light shines through the flowers. Foliage is also different, a softer green with a hint of chartreuse; and the shorter height (usually around 30 inches) makes ‘Sorbet’ a good garden “front runner” or container plant.
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NEW! ‘Charisma’ (van Noort) is a brilliant gold with a shading of tangerine along the edges and at the throat, in stunning contrast to its tangerine buds with a flash of purple at theirs bases. Even taller than ‘Lucifer,’ it begins to flower 2 to 3 weeks later, filling the August garden with vibrant color.
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NEW! ‘Van Noort Giants’ include a variety of tall new crocosmias originating from Niels van Noort (photo at left), beginning to flower just a bit after ‘Lucifer.’ These beauties have been selected for the intensity of their red, scarlet, flame orange, burnished orange, and golden orange colors; for height and for flower size. Very large corms (14 cm and larger).
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Crocosmia 'Lucifer' in Cannon Beach, Oregon garden |
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