Ah well at least it looks like there is a decent clump in there. You are paying extra for them growing on the bulbs. Bulbs would be cheaper, but you could easily split that pot into 6 or 7 little clumps, have flowers this year and by next year have 6 or 7 decent sized clumps to either leave to spread or split into further clumps. It all comes down to your cost/patience ratio I guess
Very easy, pop them out of the pot, they should pull apart pretty easily (you dont want to tug hard and rip the roots off). because they are already growing quite strongly you'd need to keep them well watered until they are settled in so they dont wilt. Alternatively pop them in as they are and then divide them once they have flowered. Less risk and you'll have better show from them this year Yep given how many are in there they are not bad value
I wouldn't consider disturbing them /splitting them this year. Plant as it is in the pot. Have a nice mass clump. Wait a couple of years until you get a bigger clump...then split them in the autumn.
There is probably at least 10 corms in that pot. Stick the whole pot full in free draining soil in a sunny spot now. After they have flowered and the leaves gone brown, dig them up and space them out a bit more. Do not try to split now , I did that and lost half of them.
I'd agree. A really well established plant. I don't pay much less than that at the nursery for named varieties of crocosmia. That would probably divide into two or three plants, and grow on very quickly. I'd do that, pot them up into 5 or 6 inch pots and grow on for a month or two before planting out.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There is probably at least 10 corms in that pot. Stick the whole pot full in free draining soil in a sunny spot now. After they have flowered and the leaves gone brown, dig them up and space them out a bit more. Do not try to split now , I did that and lost half of them.
That’s the cost/patience ratio! How much £ do you risk losing if you lose some of them, versus how much do you mind waiting for a better time of year to divide them. I’m pretty gung ho and would divide them now, but as has been mentioned they will need keeping well watered until they find their feet, and there is the risk they might not make it. The benefit is more clumps more quickly
I'm just about to pull most of mine out! I only bought a bag of bulbs from a cheap £1 store and in two years they've more than doubled in amount and bulked right up and spread. Im thinning them out this year as the leaves are outweighing the flowers!! They divide themselves very quickly. Not a bad pay off for a mere £1 though I thought!! Mine are only just showing signs of green leaves, i guess it's due to the cold long winter so you might get away with sticking some bulbs in? But if you can afford them already growing in a pot is go for that. Nothing like instant gratification! I do like the structure and movement that the leaves form even until the frost comes. They are really easy to pull out though if they pop up where you don't want them.
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It all comes down to your cost/patience ratio I guess
Yep given how many are in there they are not bad value
Plant as it is in the pot. Have a nice mass clump.
Wait a couple of years until you get a bigger clump...then split them in the autumn.
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That would probably divide into two or three plants, and grow on very quickly. I'd do that, pot them up into 5 or 6 inch pots and grow on for a month or two before planting out.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I do like the structure and movement that the leaves form even until the frost comes. They are really easy to pull out though if they pop up where you don't want them.