#cormous

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 2 October 2025

The yellow blooms of Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora 'George Davison' (montbretia) made a great association growing through the foliage and purple flower spikes of a Nepeta cultivar (catmint, catnip). Both plants favour a sunny location and free draining soil.

Jill Raggett

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 9 October 2025

A distinctive cultivar Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora 'Emily McKenzie' (montbretia) has vivid orange flowers that have a dark red ring in the centre. This cormous, herbaceous perennial flowers in late summer into the autumn, it requires a moderately fertile, humus rich soil.

Jill Raggett

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 25 September 2025

In these roadside verges some Colchicum species (meadow saffron, autumn crocus, fog crocus, Michaelmas crocus, upstart) have been planted and are thriving. This cormous herbaceous perennial flowers in the autumn and produces large leaves in the spring.

Jill Raggett

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Plant of the Day

Saturday 4 March 2023

In the lawn outside a croft on the small island of Shapinsay, Orkney, these cheerful Crocus flavus subsp. flavus (yellow crocus, bottle-flowered crocus, Dutch yellow crocus) were flowering. There maybe a cold snap coming but spring is just around the corner.

Jill Raggett

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Plant of the Day

Sunday 9 July 2023

Clumps of the cormous perennial Gladiolus nanus cultivar (sword lily) are flowering in this cottage-style community garden in Orkney, Scotland.

Jill Raggett

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Plant of the Day

Friday 24 February 2023

On this woodland floor below the Acer pseudoplatanus (sycamore, sycamore maple) trees the Anemone blanda (winter windflower, sapphire anemone, Balkan anemone, Grecian windflower) were coming into flower. This spreading perennial forms clumps in a well-drained, humus-rich soil and needs a dry dormancy after flowering.

Jill Raggett