Learn about which plants you can add to your landscape that would make great crocosmia companion plants.
What You’ll Learn:
- Crocosmia Companion Plants
- Crocosmia Plant Care
- Crocosmia Videos
- Where to Buy Crocosmia
Crocosmia is a striking addition to your garden but you’re looking for ideas to further complement their unique shape and vibrant color. What you are looking for are plant suggestions that will enhance the sword-like foliage and spiky flowers of the crocosmia.
Downloads:
Crocosmia Free Plant Reference Sheet
In “Crocosmia Companion Plants” – DIY Garden Minute Ep. 93 – learn ideas for complementary plants for your landscape. This episode is meant for any gardener who wants to get more out of their garden and learn how to complement their crocosmia plants.
Also included:
Because you want to know more about Crocosmia, check out this link to our crocosmia plant profile sheet! If you’re looking to add even more beautiful crocosmia varieties to your landscape or containers, or just in a hurry and need to get your summer-blooming crocosmia bulbs in the ground, Eden Brothers offers fast shipping and a great selection!
These specific crocosmia bulbs would be perfect for you! They are low maintenance and add a tropical feel to your garden!
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Crocosmia Companion Plants
Crocosmia looks amazing when planted in garden bed groupings, in containers, and as focal points or accessory plants in a garden.
Crocosmia has wide-grass-bladed leaves sticking almost straight up and grows bright and brash orange, red, and yellow flowers that mix well with other similar colored flowering plants.
- Campanula
- Daisy: Seeds to Buy / Live Plants to Buy
- Hydrangea
- Vinca
- Rhododendron
- Boxwood
- Viburnum
- And other common foundation garden plants.
Crocosmia Plant Care
Crocosmia adds a tropical layer and vibrancy to your garden with their striking, gorgeous flowers and sword-shaped foliage.
Crocosmia care facts:
- They’re considered a perennial corm, a type of bulb.
- Related to freesia, Ixia, and Sparaxis.
- They have small blooms in orange, red, or yellow flowers
- They bloom during the summer.
- Sunset= Zones 5 to 24. USDA= Hardy to zones 6 to 9.
- They prefer full sun with some shade in the hottest zoned climates.
- They like well-draining, enriched soil.
- These plants need regular to moderate watering during growth and bloom times.
- Native to tropical and southern Africa.
- Crocosmia take a low to moderate level of maintenance with most maintenance happening after plants are done blooming and have died back to the ground.
- You can treat them like other bulbs like daffodils or tulips for after-care.
Crocosmia Videos
Crocosmia For Sale
Now it’s time to pick out your own Crocosmia to plant in your garden.
Crocosmia Bulbs – Lucifer, Mid Summer/Brig…
One of the most popular variety of Crocosmia, ‘Lucifer’ will produce beautiful bright red… [More]
Crocosmia Bulbs – Mix, Mid Summer/Bright M…
Crocosmias are a lesser – known beauty of the plant world – they technically aren’t bulb… [More]
Crocosmia Bulbs – Emberglow, Red, Eden Bro…
A warm, beautiful variety of Crocosmia, Emberglow will produce numerous orange, almost … [More]
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