I didnt think crocosmia grew from the same bulb 2 years running, they grow from the new little bulblets that grow underneath or to the side of the original bulb, excuse me if I am wrong, but in view of the fact that the bulb will not take nourishment from the old leaves, I always chop mine off as soon as the flower finishes.
I also plant the new little bulbs around October /November time.
Perhaps someone could put me right on this?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Lyn is right-strictly speaking they are not a bulb but a corm-like gladioli-so the corm does not get bigger as such but rots away to leave the smaller corms to flower the following year
As they increase at quite an alarming rate-I would quite happily cut them off when finished flowering-there are plenty of cormlets left in the soil to grow and flower for next year
When I dug a clump up there was a whitish corm at the bottom of this year's growth and some big reddish brown older ones lower down. Will all these make flowers in the future or are some of them finished?
Thanks. I know they're said to be invasive and I have one good expanding clump. All the others varieties I've tried fade away. I didn't want to throw out the good stuff when trying to improve their performance.
I have a quite different experience; I dig them up every two years, take away the underground piles of small corns and replant the bigger ones with a little space in between. The next year it,s a big flower feast. If I leave them, there's not enouph space for the newly formed small corns to develop and they flower poorly.Are there people with the same experiense. Sorry for my mistakes in english, I live in the Netherlands.
Groeten lousje, I do the same as I find them very invasive because they tend to fill the surrounding soil with a mass of corms which prevents other plants growing nearby. I left one group untouched for 5 years and got fewer flowers each year. When I finally dug them up, almost half of the volume of soil in the area was a mass of corms! If I didn't like the flowers so much, I would consider them a terrible weed! By the way, your english is very good!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I have a HUGE clump of crocosmia lucifer.....can I dig them up soonish? We are having an extension built and they will have to budge! Should I then overwinter them in the garage for example or stick them straight back into the ground somewhere else?
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I didnt think crocosmia grew from the same bulb 2 years running, they grow from the new little bulblets that grow underneath or to the side of the original bulb, excuse me if I am wrong, but in view of the fact that the bulb will not take nourishment from the old leaves, I always chop mine off as soon as the flower finishes.
I also plant the new little bulbs around October /November time.
Perhaps someone could put me right on this?
Lyn is right-strictly speaking they are not a bulb but a corm-like gladioli-so the corm does not get bigger as such but rots away to leave the smaller corms to flower the following year
As they increase at quite an alarming rate-I would quite happily cut them off when finished flowering-there are plenty of cormlets left in the soil to grow and flower for next year
When I dug a clump up there was a whitish corm at the bottom of this year's growth and some big reddish brown older ones lower down. Will all these make flowers in the future or are some of them finished?
In the sticks near Peterborough
It is the big reddish ones-if they are firm- that are the newbies-if they are squashy-technical term-then they are what is left of an old corm.
Thanks. I know they're said to be invasive and I have one good expanding clump. All the others varieties I've tried fade away. I didn't want to throw out the good stuff when trying to improve their performance.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have a quite different experience; I dig them up every two years, take away the underground piles of small corns and replant the bigger ones with a little space in between. The next year it,s a big flower feast. If I leave them, there's not enouph space for the newly formed small corns to develop and they flower poorly.Are there people with the same experiense. Sorry for my mistakes in english, I live in the Netherlands.
I'd love a flower feast. I've lost lots. Lucifer expanded enormously but flowered poorly. Perhaps I should have done as you do but I disposed of it.
Your English is fine.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Groeten lousje, I do the same as I find them very invasive because they tend to fill the surrounding soil with a mass of corms which prevents other plants growing nearby. I left one group untouched for 5 years and got fewer flowers each year. When I finally dug them up, almost half of the volume of soil in the area was a mass of corms! If I didn't like the flowers so much, I would consider them a terrible weed! By the way, your english is very good!
I have a HUGE clump of crocosmia lucifer.....can I dig them up soonish? We are having an extension built and they will have to budge! Should I then overwinter them in the garage for example or stick them straight back into the ground somewhere else?