A stunning sight in the late summer border, Crocosmia 'Lucifer' certainly packs a punch with its sprays of fiery red trumpet shaped flowers above tall, sword-like foliage. Drifts of this eye-catching perennial add a blaze of colour when many other flowers are starting to fade, as well as adding vertical structure to the border. This variety of Montbretia earns its RHS Award of Garden Merit for its beauty as well as its vigour and resilience. It also makes a striking cut flower. Height: 100cm (39). Spread: 10cm (4).
Also known as Monbretia, this highly sought after beauty is perennial and hardy - coming back bigger and better each year and forming a large clump in a few seasons! Elegant long flower spikes, held above lush, sword-shaped foliage, each giving you masses of enormously pretty, bright-orange star-shaped blooms from August until the first frosts. each year. Emily Mckenzie is a compact form and needs no support in the border, blooms are similar in appearance to freesias and make nice cot blooms too. Ht 60cm.