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Mystery Change of plant appearance

pugslovesunpugslovesun Posts: 300
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Hi, a few weeks ago my friend told me that she's had a Crocosmia x crocosmiiiflora 'Solfaterre' in her garden for 10 years, it has bronze leaves yellow flowers but she said they've either changed colour or there is a new interloper! I didn't believe her but today I was gardening with her and it does seem a bit of a MYSTERY!
There's a group of the original bronze leaved stuff with yellow flowers, then a group with green leaves but yellow flowers and another with green leaves and orange flowers, neither of which she has put in, interspersed in the green leaves are some bronze .
Any ideas to solve the mystery, :)
Cheers

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    'Solfaterre' is a cultivar. If it seeds the offspring won't be the same


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • pugslovesunpugslovesun Posts: 300
    Just strange that this has only happened this year and such big clumps!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Tht's probably a result of the hot dry summer mimicking their native conditions and letting seeds germinate and teeny corms grow more readily.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I tihnk Obelixx has it sussed. The hot weather will have made a big difference to the development of seeds.
    Differences in flowering times, and plants flowering out of season or not at all, have all been more regular ocurrences this year  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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