Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'Merryman'
(Montbretia 'Merryman')

Family - Iridaceae
Category - Perennial
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn
Hardiness - H5
Height - 50cm
Width - 15cm
Location - The Hot Garden

Description: A Cormous, clump-forming Perennial with an upright habit. Pale to mid-green, sword-shaped leaves are held at the base of the plant. Orange buds open to vivid, apricot-yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers with red flecks at the centre of each Bloom. The flowers are held in spikes and produced, prolifically, from late summer through early autumn. Good for use as cut flowers.

Flower:

Orange buds open to bright apricot-yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers with red flecks at the centre of each bloom. The blooms are held in upright spikes and produced, abundantly, from August through September.

Flower colour: Apricot

Flower shape: Trumpet-shaped flowers in spikes

Flowering time: August, September

Foliage:

Long, slender pale to mid-green leaves are linear to lanceolate in shape. The leaves are produced from Corms and held in clumps at the base of the plant.

Foliage Senescence: Deciduous

Foliage Shape: Linear to lanceolate

Propagation:

Division in autumn.

Cultivation:

Best in full sun in fertile, moisture-retentive soil that is well-drained.