A couple of years ago I dumped a big wodge of Crocosmia corms over the fence behind the old privies. The plants were too big for the garden and I’d lost patience with them leaning over and smothering everything else. But I didn’t quite have the heart to dispose of them altogether. And this year I’m glad I didn’t. The exiled Crocosmia are now as happy as Larry, not leaning over at all, but reaching up and up into the summer sky.
Tish Farrell 
how fabulous . . .how ever of you to have found a new home for them that works so well 🙂
Happenstance only, Becky 🙂
talent, pure talent xxxx
PS and of course i was attempting to write clever in that first comment rather than ever!
I got it, Becky, with or without the ‘cl’ 🙂 🙂
told you that you were talented, not sure I would have done!!!!
I have two enormous wodges! And yes they do sprawl, but mine are by the side of the conservatory so the only problem for me is accessing the outside tap! Like making your way through a jungle!! But the colours of the flowers make up for it. Glad you were able to transplant yours and still gain the benefit of them.
The flowers are so gorgeous. I’m glad they have a good spot, but as you say, boy, do they make a lot of vegetation. Now mine can head for the field if they feel so inclined.
Oh, fantastic result!
Hooray!
😊
I like the perspective on this one.
Thanks, Colline.
We had a few clumps in the UK garden. I really liked them and used to get cross with Mick when he staked them up inelegantly. 🙂 🙂
Yep. They are very resistant to being staked nicely.
What a cool angle for this shot! 🙂
Many thanks, M. B. It was a little challenging in the knee department 🙂
Both colors are dramatically lovely, Tish.
janet
I thought the crocosmia was posing very nicely against the sky.
Thoughtful of it. 😊
Glad to know the informal transplant has been successful, but mainly I’m loving “wodge” — a unit of measurement I don’t remember nearly often enough.
It’s one I use a lot now you mention it 🙂
🙂
Your reward for not composting it 🙂
Yay! Spot on Gilly. I hadn’t thought of it that way. Come to think of it, it was lucky to escape.
I had oodles of these critters in my former garden–yes, almost like weeds! Yet, in our new climate (snowy winters) I cannot get them to grow, no matter how I visa them. I do like their tenacity, yet I do understand their tendency to go rampant overspread.
They look fantastic in a big garden with wide borders where they can just go, go, go.
Mine won’t flower.
Are its leaves growing well instead?
Quite green and promising. Just being shy, I guess.
Sometimes plants reproduce vegetatively if they are in conditions that suit that means of reproducing, i.e. rather than flowering. And sometimes a bit of stress is needed for flowering, but how that applies to crocosmia I wouldn’t know. Maybe, as you say, they’re just biding their time.
Will yelling at them to grow stress them out enough to flower?
Now there’s a potential experiment. Do you have close neighbours?
Ha—they are already suspect of me since I occasionally blow bubbles in the backyard.
Oh good on you bubble blowing!
Made my 80+ neighbor laugh out loud. Great stress relief activity.
Brilliant. Should be dispensed in doctors’ surgeries 🙂
I relish those non-tobacco ads where the adults are blowing bubbles when they usually smoke. A fave.
I’m going to have to go and buy some now. You’ve totally sold me this concept!
Making the world a better place through bubbling. A campaign?
I should say so!
Beautiful Tish!