CROCOSMIA 'Paul's Best Yellow'
Medium
Sun
Yellow
Reasonable soil
Summer
RHS Award of Garden Merit
Description
Crocosmia 'Paul's Best Yellow'
Height x Spread: 60cm x 50cm
'Pauls Best Yellow' has gorgeous golden yellow outward facing blooms which are borne in clusters on tall, arching stems above the green, sword-shaped leaves of this clump forming perennial.
This form of Montbretia can cope in any reasonable soil providing it is planted in sun or partial-shade and the soil doesn't dry out during the summer months or become waterlogged. The corms of this plant can easily be divided during the spring, this will help reinvigorate the plant.
Available for Mail Order from April - September
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