{"id":14017,"date":"2012-08-23T01:27:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T08:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14017"},"modified":"2012-08-24T01:07:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:07:19","slug":"crocosmia-best-tips-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/crocosmia-best-tips-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocosmia Best Tips & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tip 1.
\nFor a strong red Crocosmia the variety ‘Lucifer’ is as red as hell!
\n\"Crocosmia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tip 2.
\nThe corms like lots of water but stop short of water logging the soil.
\n\"Crocosmia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tip 3.
\nStems and sword shaped leaves will grow and stand upright but if they are in the shade they will lean towards the light.
\n\"Crocosmia<\/a><\/p>\n

Tip 4.
\nGet new plants by dividing the clumps of corms in Autumn.
\n\"Crocosmia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tip 5.
\nThe strong red shows upwell against the green of the leaves and other green backgrounds in your garden.
\n\"Crocosmia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tip 6.
\nOther types of Crocosmia include Ember Glow, masoniorum and montbretia varieties or new hybrids<\/a><\/p>\n

The book ‘Crocosmia and Chasmanthe (Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Guide)’ <\/strong>by Peter Goldblatt, John Manning and Gary Dunlop plus a range of Crocosmia products are available from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other Crocosmia Pages<\/h3>\n

Grow Romantic Red Flowers<\/a>
\nGood Companions Crocosmia and Euphorbia <\/a>
\nGrowing good Crocosmia<\/a>
\n Crocosmia Lucifer and other Montbretia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six tips to get the best out of Crocosmia, with supporting photos, links and list of species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-weeds-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}