Montbretia
Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora 'Star of the East'
Genus: Crocosmia
Species: × crocosmiiflora
Cultivar: 'Star of the East' ...
Montbretia, Falling Stars
Simple to grow, these drought-tolerant, showy plants naturalize easily. Use for summer color in perennial borders and wild gardens. Good cut flowers in orange, yellow and scarlet with sword-like leaves.
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Crocosmia, Montbretia
Latin: Crocosmia x crocosmiflora
Gardeners, by and large, are optimists. Without a healthy dose of optimism, few would bother with the work required to plan, plant and maintain a garden.
Montbretia will grow to a height of 3-4' and should be spaced at 15-18". Lucifer will multiply and spread once it is established. The best part about this plant is the firey orange-red flowers which will bloom in mid-summer.
Montbretia - Tritonia aurea
Tritonia aurea, to give it its correct name, is one of the old cottage flowers which of recent years has been improved out of all recognition.
Montbretia (Crocosmia)
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Of all the bulbs listed here, this South African native is perhaps the most useful and least exploited by American gardeners. It blooms midsummer for at least four weeks.
Montbretia is an invasive plant in New Zealand and is common on roadsides in the northern parts of the West Coast of the South Island. The Department of Conservation classes it as an environmental weed.[1]
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Montbretia
Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora
Scientific Name
Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora (Lem.) N.E. Brown ...
Montbretia looks like a small gladiolus until it blooms in late summer, when abundant sprays of orange, gold, or yellow star-shaped flowers are held by gracefully thin, arching, zigzag stems rising from a cluster of pale green, sword-shaped leaves.
Montbretia (Crocosmia species)
Spikes of bright red, orange or yellow flowers amid sword-shaped leaves.
24 to 36 inches tall ...
The Montbretia or Crocosmia, (Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora), is more than a beautiful bloom. It attracts tiny friends to your garden that help to remove garden foes.
Yellow Ornamental Grasses ...
If 'montbretia' itself sounds suspiciously like a genus name, it's because it once was-as were Curtonus and Tritonia for various ancestors of today's hybrids.
Tritonia (Montbretia) - Graceful and showy plants from the Cape, better than most S.
Tritonia ( Montbretia )
Tritonia crocata ( CommonName Not Available )
Tritonia crocata ( Princess Beatrix Tritonia ) ...
Montbretia needs to be crowded before it will bloom profusely, but if it gets too crowded it loses vigor and stops flowering. Best results seem to come when the clumps are divided every 3-4 years.
George Davidsion Yellow Montbretia [English]: Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'George Davidson'
George Franc Rhododendron [English]: Rhododendron 'George Franc'
George Harding Rhododendron [English]: Rhododendron 'George Harding' ...
Crocosmia crocosmiiflora (Crocosmia, Montbretia)
Crocosmia masoniorum
Crocosmia pottsii
Crocus ancyrensis
Crocus angustifolius (Cloth of Gold Crocus)
Crocus chrysanthus (Snow crocus)
Crocus imperati (Early Crocus)
Crocus kotschyanus ...
Crocosmia - Montbretia as was. Will not be happy if permanently waterlogged, but ok in damp.
Digitalis - Foxgloves. Normally seen in dry woodlands, but will grow well in the damp.
Echinacea - The Coneflower. Damp or dry
Eranthis hyemalis.
and hybrids (Montbretia)
Cuphea micropetala (Cigar Plant)
Dahlia sp. and hybrids (Dahlia)
Dianthus sp. and cultivars (Pinks)
Dicentra eximia and hybrids (Bleeding Heart)
Dicliptera suberecta (Hummingbird Plant)
Digitalis sp. and hybrids (Foxglove) ...
Crocosmia (montbretia) Bu: yellow, red or orange flowers
Dahlia Bu: wide range of colours and forms
Helenium P: flowers in shades of yellow, orange and rusty brown
Nicotiana sylvestris (tobacco plant) A: white flowers, scented ...
syn. Antholyza, Curtonus, Montbretia
Family: Iridaceae
Pronounced: kro-KOS-mee-a
Click on thumbnails at the bottom of the page to see individual cultivars of crocosmias and their indiviidual attributes and zones where they are hardy.
paniculata are true species crocosmias, but C. x crocumiiflora (formerly Montbretia crocosmiaeflora) designates an interspecific hybrid that had its beginnings in France in 1879 when Victor Lemoine first crossed C. aurea with C. pottsii.
 See also: Crocosmia, Green, Orange, Dahlia, May
  
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