Crocosmia
- Botanical Name
- Crocosmia
- Min Zone
- 5
- Max Zone
- 9
- Height
- 1.5 to 4 feet
- Width
- 1 to 2 feet
- Flowers
- Mid to late summer: orange, orange-red, red
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Plant corms in spring
- Plant corms 5" deep
- Space corms 6-8" apart
- Not reliably winter hardy in Zone 5 and maybe Zone 6
- Provide winter mulch or lift corms in fall to store indoors for winter
- Store corms in peat or vermiculite at 35-40°
- Propagate by digging and dividing and removing the offset corms
- Problems
- Spider mites
- Varieties
- Lucifer - reported as the most hardy of crocosmia, scarlet red flowers, 3'
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