Mystery Irid
totototo@telus.net (Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:31:55 PDT)
On 2 Sep 2009, at 19:37, David Ehrlich wrote:
. . . the second bulb has
started to bloom. It's not a Gladiolus at all, with its branched
inflorescence. It's very nice, but I don't know what it is. I have some photos
in Picasa at http://picasaweb.google.com/idavidehrlich/…
Please help me name it.
Almost certainly a yellow form of Crocosmia. Which cultivar it may be is
anybody's guess: there are quite a number of yellow crocosmia cultivars, and I
suspect they're badly mixed up in the trade.
Or has Wisley conducted a trial of "yellow crocosmias" and published a key that
distinguished the cultivars?
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island