From corms in Spring, broad grass like leaves emerge followed by thick wiry purple tinted branched flowering stems with double row of flower buds. 'Lucifer', a hybrid crocosmia, is one of the tallest varieties available with intense red coloured trumpet shaped blooms. Plants can reach 1.4 meters...
The plant becomes dormant during summer, but in September, medium pink shuttlecock shaped flowers appear. Darker pink blotch at petal base. Flowers are followed by gorgeous ivy-like leaves marked with a silver-green pattern. Makes a nice clump of beautiful patterned foliage to 15 cm in height. ...
This genus is aptly known as Angel's Trumpet and Devil's Trumpet for its large trumpet shaped flowers that bloom abundance at the stem tips. This species has smaller flowers for its genus, but the pale mauve blooms always attract the eye. Very nice oak leaf like leaves. Plants can grow to 1...
Stately 2 meter tall flowering stalks, rising from a basal cluster of deeply cut handsome leaves, are densely covered in dark velvety purple blooms without a contrasting white bee or eye. Open pollinated.
A tall pink with thin flowering stems reach 60 cm from a basal cluster of strap-like dark green leaves. Bright medium pink five petaled smallish flowers have dark and white to pale pink markings are gathered in dense clusters atop the thin stems. Blooms right up to frost. Trouble free.
Soft fern like foliage and dangling pink heart shaped flowers are borne on long stems holding nectar filled blooms high for the hummingbirds and bumblebees. Very early as its one of the first of the wildflowers to flower. Grows 30 cm tall with wider spread. Longest blooming of all the Dicentras.
From a basal clump of oblong leaves, arrises a 1.5 meter tall unbranching flowering spike of yellowish bronze thumble shaped waxy blooms with rusty veining within. Short hairs mark the lower extended lip of the trumpet of these quazi erect flowers. A very exotic looking improved strain of the...
Well known for its bold purple flowers and its central cone of bronze spikes with golden tips. Durable single blooms on 80 cm stems arise from a basal clump of attractive dark green deeply veined leaves that have a coarse feel due to tiny hook like hairs. Attracts a variety of nectar and pollen...
A highly decorative 70 cm tall sedge that can grow to vast colonies due to spreading rhizomes. Produces single fuzzy fruiting heads with 8 cm long fine fibres that are tawny at the base but fade to an ivory at the tips.
