Wednesday, August 2, 2017

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!


16 comments:

  1. Love those flowers, so very pretty, sorry about the heat there, but I kind of enjoy it here.

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  2. I love they way they capture silvery water droplets after early morning mist or a light shower.

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  3. Hello, beautiful flowers and images. Clematis and coneflowers are some of my favorites. Happy Thursday, enjoy your day!

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  4. These crocosmia flowers are so interesting! Beautiful addition to your garden for sure.
    I know this heat is not fun for many but I truly don't mind as long as shade is available.

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  5. These blooms seems to be like ones we had in our front flower bed in VA. The blooms were smallish orange flowers on very long green stalks. Oddly enough the stalks would then bend forward and become wuite unsightly. Also, the blooms were rather invasive like orange day liliies. Do these flowers have similar characteristics?

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  6. I love Crocosmia and so do the Hummingbirds. We have both red and yellow.. Love your photos
    Yes it is way way too hot
    MB

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  7. Beautiful flowers! Love the bright orange color.

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  8. Oh all those flowers are just gorgeous. LOVE the colors.

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  9. Hoping the fires in B.C. are not adversely affecting your family in BC. I recall you said they were in the Fraser Valley (I think). My sis was in the Kelowna fire several years ago---very frightening!
    MB

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  10. Just love the colour of all of the flowers ...

    All the best Jan

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  11. Oh, my, I do love all that color...had never heard of Crocosmia. I am off to look it up....

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  12. Your flowers are really doing great. You have some great flowers. The first plant almost looks tropical by the way the buds line up in a row. Fantastic red color.

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  13. Crocosmia are all in bloom around here and I've been enjoying them very much. Your pictures are wonderful. :-)

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  14. Wow! I have never seen this flower before. What a brilliant addition to your garden. I bet the hummingbirds go crazy over this one.

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