Crocosmia is a perennial flowering plant of the iris family. Crocosmia plants grow 2 to 4 feet tall, producing many red, dark red, orange or orange-yellow blooms situated on a spike above sword-shaped green leaves. Crocosmia flowers throughout the summer into fall. It grows best in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 6 to 10.
- Difficulty:
- Moderate
Instructions
things you’ll need:
- Fork or shovel
- Fungicide
- Scissors, pruning shears or sharp knife
- Vermiculite
- Paper bag
- Carefully dig up a crocosmia plant in fall, after the flowers have died and the foliage has yellowed.
- Brush the soil away from the corm to reveal the withered old corm, new corm and small cormels attached to the new corm.
- Remove the cormels and set them aside.
- Trim away the foliage, withered old corm and all roots from the new corm.
- Wash the corm and cormels, air-dry and dust with fungicide. Store in a paper bag filled with vermiculite placed in a cool, dark place.
- Plant the corm and cormels in the spring after the last frost. Dig the bed to loosen the soil. Place the corms and cormels 3 inches apart and 2 inches deep. Water after planting.
Tips & Warnings
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Cormels will require two to three seasons to flower.
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