Crocosmia 'Rowallane Yellow'......and other Crocs!

[Mark]

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora......... Common Montbretia!!

Once you have that in your garden you will never get rid of it............. LOL

[Maggi Young]

I must photograph the C. aureus from Cistus Nursery (what a plant list! www.cistus.com) when it flowers as it is quite a good big-flowered form.  Maybe it's something else.

johnw

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[David Nicholson]

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora......... Common Montbretia!!

Once you have that in your garden you will never get rid of it............. LOL

Thanks Mark, and there was I thinking it was something sophisticated! Nevertheless it's quite pretty.

[Maggi Young]

 Mark, it's easier to eliminate Montbretia than it is to get rid of Tropaeolum speciosum!

David, don't let anyone turn you into a plant snob! Beauty is in the eye of the weeder, after all!

[art600]

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora......... Common Montbretia!!

Once you have that in your garden you will never get rid of it............. LOL

I am still trying

[Mark]

David
You are welcome............... It is still a very pretty plant though!!!! Just have to keep it under control.


Maggi
I don't know about that one............. I will have to look it up.


Art
Yep, it can take a very long time.............. LOL

[fermi de Sousa]

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora......... Common Montbretia!!

Once you have that in your garden you will never get rid of it............. LOL

I am still trying

I was able to successfully rid myself of Montbretia by moving to another area!
It's a major pest in the Dandenongs (where Otto, Tim and a few other forumists live) and can clothe the hillsides in orange, along with Alstroemeria aurea!
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Mark, if you'd like to try the Trop. speciosum for yourself, I can let you have it!! It's one of those things that tends to take ages and many tries to establish..... then you wonder why you ever got it! It IS very beautiful.... but............

[Mark]

Maggi

I have had a look at that plant and noooooooooooo, but thank you for the offer!!!!! Yes it is a very pretty thing, and maybe if I had a LARGE garden!!
Also.............. we don't have acidic soil here........

[Maggi Young]

Mark, you are a wise man! It is a very popular plant, though... and there are places where it DOES behave, but it bothers me because it overgrows things like smaller rhodos which do not like it and lose their leaves at an great speed because of that.

[Mark]

Maggi
Yes I can imagine that it would overgrow other plants.............. If I had an acre or two or would have one, but alas I only have a small garden.

Crocosmia 'Auricorn'...........

[David Nicholson]

That's a pretty one Mark. Hardy?

[Mark]

Hi David

Yes, it is pretty hardy.............. most crocosmia are with some protection!!

This is a very very rare one called 'Autumn Gold'

[Mark]

Another rare one called 'Best Form'





and 'Cally Greyleaf', which is also very unusual..........

[Brian Ellis]

Very nice Mark, how big is the flower on 'Best form'?