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Crocosmia Lucifer
BenDover
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I do a lot of other peoples garden visiting as part of the National Garden Scheme and always note how late their Crocosmia Lucifer is at flowering, when mine have been finished for weeks. This year, end of June and they are already halfway thru' flowering so by August (which is the time I see them in flower elsewhere), they'll be over and already the leaves starting to turn brown. Are my Crocosmia Lucifer unique? I live in Surrey, so not particularly tropical. Even on some of the best known garden supplier websites, they say the flowering period is August/September. This isn't just a one off fluke for this year - always happens, which frustrates me as I really miss the colour later in the season. Any ideas?
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Mines are just beginning to show some red now. I think they will be in full glory in a couple of weeks! Im in Yorkshire.
Are you sure it's Lucifer?
In the sticks near Peterborough
There's no flower stems on mine yet, but I'm up near Sunderland and I think it flowered in Aug last year like you said. I saw another red one while searching online the other day that supposedly flowers after Lucifer- I'll see if I can find the name of that again in case that is any good to you...
No flowers on mine yet. In Norfolk.
Broadleigh says June to August
Mine rarely flowered at all so I dumped it
In the sticks near Peterborough
Cotswold garden flowers website also says the flowering period is Jun-Aug...
Just beginning to show red in Midlands
No flowers in Wales yet.
This is mine, pic taken last week I'm in Essex btw!