{"id":22948,"date":"2023-07-04T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T18:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22948"},"modified":"2023-08-02T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T18:12:49","slug":"crocosmia-lucifer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22948","title":{"rendered":"<em>Crocosmia<\/em> \u2018Lucifer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22952\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230704_010627.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22952\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230704_010627-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Crocosmia \u2018Lucifer\u2019\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230704_010627-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230704_010627-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230704_010627-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230704_010627-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230704_010627.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crocosmia \u2018Lucifer\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re back home from our grand Alaska adventure (or whatever you like to call it) and I thought I&#8217;d photograph the various things blooming in the yard. One of the best is this <em>Crocosmia<\/em> \u2018Lucifer\u2019. There are something like 7 species in the genus <em>Crocosmia<\/em> that come from the South African grasslands. The variety named &#8216;Lucifer&#8217; is a hybrid by Alan Bloom (<em>Crocosmia<\/em> x <em>Curtonus<\/em>) which has flowers and foliage that are similar to gladiolus. As you can see, it has scarlet red, tubular, one-sided flowers borne along arching flower scapes. It&#8217;s one of our favorite summer blooms and every year I mean to do a little better at giving them support, although they only barely need it. We started with one or two plants and I&#8217;ve added a few more over time, so we have a nice clump of them in our front bed. We&#8217;re glad we got home while they were blooming. They attract hummingbirds, as well as the more common pollinators, which is an added treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back home from our grand Alaska adventure (or whatever you like to call it) and I thought I&#8217;d photograph the various things blooming in the yard. One of the best is this Crocosmia \u2018Lucifer\u2019. There are something like 7 species in the genus Crocosmia that come from the South African grasslands. The variety named &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22948\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1604,1605,2849,2851,1018,1654,3400,1674,205,723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22954,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions\/22954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}