Crocosmia Flowers

The colourful highlight of our garden year is the Crocosmia, which splashes its bright red blooms in combination with various other flowers around the garden for several weeks at this time of summer.  Since bright colours act like a magnet for me, I really like these as much as any individual plant in our garden.

You can imagine how flowers like this show up in the garden, in spite of all the other blooms they are competing with.

They're also known as Coppertips or Falling Stars, and originate in South Africa.  There are now a number of horticultural varieties available.

 

The long stem of buds for each flower is part of the attraction, and is pretty in its own right.

Here they are in a number of different colour combinations with other plants in our garden - this one with the purple spikes of Bear's Breeches in the background.

This one mixed with the bright yellow False Sunflowers.

These blooms against the bright green spikes of its own leaves.

And finally, providing a blurry background for these Coneflowers.

I always like the view from the back of the garden, where it spills over and pokes through our ornamental cedar rail fence, right beside our heavily blossom-covered Clematis.  If you don't have this plant in your garden, you should consider it!

Today's heat hasn't been relieved by a late afternoon thunderstorm, so it's too hot!