Great choice! I wish more Crocosmia varieties were as hardy as "Lucifer" in my zone. It's a great red, ties in well with my favorite red daylilies of various hues. Foliage works well to "match" gladioli and blends well with iris foliage after the bloom. I should have a picture of all three combined but it's probably on my old XP machine. I'll look though.
For those uninitiated, you must look into the varieties grown in our Pacific Northwest and Great Britain. Great accent or specimen plant and excellent cut flowers (perfect with glads and/or Oriental lilies, my acclimated croc's time perfectly with some of each). Wonderful bloomer, draws hummingbirds very well for such small flowers. (some have large blooms but even the small flowers put on a great show by numbers) I just planted 10 here at Mom's place this afternoon. Small box store corms worked at my house the first year. Similar to inexpensive tulips or cheapo glads, weak but a pretty bloom. An early reward for the effort but like so many other things we grow. "Mine" are 6 or 7 years old, they're magnificent. If you grow flowers for cutting or just haven't tried them you'll probably find that you enjoy them.
Good crowd pleaser!
