Anyone here from UK ?

[Epiphyllum]

I am hoping we have soem other UK members. I am in Staffordshire, and as my ID suggests, I am crazt about Epiphyllum ( s?)
How about you? :-)

[mrs_crocosmia]

Hello,
Well as you can see I am crazy for Crocosmia....LOL we have the NCCPG National Collection here in Caistor, Lincs....
Lauri

[zuzu's petals]

Welcome mrs_crocosmia.
How very nice to meet you.
I am on the Atlantic shore of North Carolina,
so maybe if I peer very hard to the east ....

This is just my 2nd year to grow Crocosmia in my garden,
I only have 2 of the most common varieties, 'Lucifer' and C.Montbretia.
Wonderful plants.

[marasri]

My 8' E. Oxy. just put out 30 blooms last night. 4th flush this summer. I adore epis. I don't have 280 varieties, but give me time and a few more trades on this site and maybe I will be a contender.

[Mr_Crocosmia]

Hi Everyone...........

I just wanted to say...........

I LOVE THIS WEBSITE !!!

Mark

[mrs_crocosmia]

Hi zuzu
Thanks for the welcome!!
Yes I can see you!!
Lucifer is a pretty red but we have some that are even better and I am so sorry LOL about what you call C. Montbretia it is really called x.crocosmiiflora and is the bad boy of the crocosmia family!!! It is a thug and will take over your garden in time....

Lauri

[zuzu's petals]

Hiya Mark, Welcome!

I was just having a look at the beauties you posted in the 'Lucifer' thread.
Breathtaking!
I will have to appreciate my two simple little fellows all the more,
knowing now, that they have such stylish relatives.

[Mr_Crocosmia]

Hi ZuZu

Thank you for the welcome..........

Oh you saw the plants i posted on the Lucifer thread........ don't you just love crocosmia.....?????

Yes you should look after your two little fellows... well maybe not the orange one!!!!!!! LOL

Mark

[zuzu's petals]

Hi zuzu
Thanks for the welcome!!
Yes I can see you!!
Lucifer is a pretty red but we have some that are even better and I am so sorry LOL about what you call C. Montbretia it is really called x.crocosmiiflora and is the bad boy of the crocosmia family!!! It is a thug and will take over your garden in time....

Lauri

I am very happy to know his real identity, Lauri , thank you.
I'm one of those goofs that prefers the botanical names to the common ones,
I invariably get confused by common names.

I will keep a sharp eye on him, but I really do provide them both
(and most everything else I grow) with the most challenging situation.
Virtually 100% sand and salty sea air. Even thugs have it hard here.

[marasri]

Dear Mr and Ms Crocosmia, Some of us need the thugs because like Zuzu, we have environs not meant for the dainty at heart. I have so far passed up the proffered Crocosmias with great effort because I am on a cistern and I only do minor soil amending, cause I am lazy and cheap at heart. I live on extremely alkaline soil, high on a hill with drainage that means one could water nonstop and still not see wet soil. Oh, I have had 45 days of above 100 degrees and hot humid nights and no appreciable rain for months it seems like. I am on a cistern for all my water needs so there are plants that I have to just look longingly at at the nursery or on the Online garden sites. I call those "Plant porno" sites as I gaze and drool at 3 am. I managed to kill a five year stand of Graptoveria, sedum , lavender, and some newly acquired bulbinella and asphodelus lutea. What the lack of rain, heat didn't get the armadillos dug up. I want thugs to out wit the animal life. Sometimes I wonder why I am so attached to gardening and changing beautifying my great out doors. It is pretty beautiful just as it is. I just can't help my self.