Crocosmia

How long should crocosmia take to grow? I bought three small plants of it in April from a nursery. I put one in a container with other stuff, and two in my main flower bed. All well watered in, fed etc, no reason why they shouldn't be happy. They are all still alive and growing, but very very slowly. When I bought them the shoots were maybe two inches high. Now they are 3 or 4 inches high. Everything else I bought from the same nursery at the same time are doing fine.

 

Once they get going you will be wondering how to control it you should have no problems with them just give them a little time.

 

Thanks Walnut. I'll be patient and give it time.

 

They are from a corm, so I wonder if what the grow is "it" for the season, but they then build up the corm, and sprog-corns :D, for next year, so good feeding etc. this year should give a bumper crop next year.

Dunno if the this-year-is-a-done-deal thing is right though?

 

Kristen, that explains a lot. I have my suspicions that the ones I bought were grown from seed. I took two of them out of their pots before putting them in their new homes, but they didn't have wel developed roots, and in one case the compost just fell away. There was no sign of a corm.

 

They will be fine, some crocosmia is late in flowering, so will take some time getting there. If the roots were not developed when you took them out of the pot and planted into the final destination, then I would imagine that they are putting on some healthy root growth to sustain the shoots. Remember, what is above is generally below!

Hope this Helps!

 

I forgot to mention, in the case of the third one, because the roots of the first two were clearly not well developed, I just sunk the whole pot in the ground, with the idea being that I would lift it out once it had established a bit and put it directly in the ground. Is that a good plan?

 

Sounds like a plan to me! I have done that with lots of bulbs this year, mainly so that I remember where I have put them, and so that the squirrel doesn't get his paws on them!