@Fran IOM, I'll try and hunt out an old photo of them from last year, so you can see how high they grew. They did look magnificent though, we like them so although huge, they will stay for a few more years!
@Songbird-2 Thanks for finding the photo. Mine have never looked like that! Yours have more class about them whereas mine are those that grow wild in a lot of places. Love the colour of them as well.The leaves on mine just flop over rather than remain upright. You must be pleased with yours.
Thanks for turning the picture @Fran IOM, we love them but we do have to stake some of them up as they grow. They are my OH's favourite plant, love the colour. We didn't imagine they would grow this big though, as had only ever seen the low growing ones before. I'm sure yours look lovely and natural in their setting.
Not in my case. I inherited mine so didn't plant them myself and every year they have been fine. This year though lots of brown leaves due to the heatwave I would think.
Lucifer is a very apt name for them, we dug a load of them out, put them on the bonfire, they dint burn just laid there, next year they were popping up as if nothing had happened, scary😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Not in my case. I inherited mine so didn't plant them myself and every year they have been fine. This year though lots of brown leaves due to the heatwave I would think.
Ditto here. Mine started yellowing in July are a complete mess now with very little green left. They flowered briefly and pathetically and without the pretty seedheads that normally follow. Normally they are the stars of their border right through late summer.
I love the colours of crocosmia but have not bought any because of my problem with the wild one. The leaves grow so prolifically they swamp any plants growing near them. I have enough problems with rampaging rape seed seedlings brought in with a load of topsoil, field grass that grows like a miniature bamboo, creeping buttercups, an oxalis that spreads everywhere, a weed that forms circles of spreading growth with little yellow bobble flowers, moss, goose grass etc. etc.
Our crcocosmias have also suffered, especially "Lucifer" but I expect they will recover for next year as they are generally hard to kill. The long drought in this area has seen off quite a few things, often not the ones you might have expected to mind the dry weather. Roses, which must have their roots down deep enough to get some moisture, have been fine but I have lost perennial wallflowers, thymes, a rosemary and yet the Astrantias and Monardas are looking very healthy. Strange.
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Here you go @Fran IOM, by the time the leaves had finished growing they reached the top of the fence last year.
Don't know how to turn photo ,sorry.
@Songbird-2 Thanks for finding the photo. Mine have never looked like that! Yours have more class about them whereas mine are those that grow wild in a lot of places. Love the colour of them as well.The leaves on mine just flop over rather than remain upright. You must be pleased with yours.
I have enough problems with rampaging rape seed seedlings brought in with a load of topsoil, field grass that grows like a miniature bamboo, creeping buttercups, an oxalis that spreads everywhere, a weed that forms circles of spreading growth with little yellow bobble flowers, moss, goose grass etc. etc.