Crocosmia

Had our first crocosmia bloom of the season yesterday.

They surround the house on all sides and are a riot of colour when in full bloom, which is from mid July to mid/end August.

I put the corms in shortly after we'd finished building the house, and I'm glad I did. There's hardly any soil and it's mainly gravel, but they love it, despite the house foundations making the ground very dry.

I tried transplanting some corms to more fertile ground, but they didn't seem to like that.